A floating-station structure
Long-term maintenance of camp constructions on snow and ice surfaces involves repeated adjustments of the vertical position of buildings due to snow accumulation or ice ablation. The principle of a low-effort vertical-adjustment station structure is presented. The basic idea is to construct a floata...
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ftunivbern:oai:boris.unibe.ch:158442 2023-08-20T03:59:47+02:00 A floating-station structure Rufli, Henry Schwander, Jakob 2007 application/pdf https://boris.unibe.ch/158442/1/a-floating-station-structure-1.pdf https://boris.unibe.ch/158442/ eng eng International Glaciological Society https://boris.unibe.ch/158442/ info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess Rufli, Henry; Schwander, Jakob (2007). A floating-station structure. Annals of glaciology, 47, pp. 79-81. International Glaciological Society 10.3189/172756407786857839 <http://dx.doi.org/10.3189/172756407786857839> 530 Physics info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion PeerReviewed 2007 ftunivbern https://doi.org/10.3189/172756407786857839 2023-07-31T22:08:07Z Long-term maintenance of camp constructions on snow and ice surfaces involves repeated adjustments of the vertical position of buildings due to snow accumulation or ice ablation. The principle of a low-effort vertical-adjustment station structure is presented. The basic idea is to construct a floatable spherical-shaped building that can be lifted by adding water underneath, which will then refreeze, or can be lowered by melting ice away from the base. Under cold polar conditions, the power requirement for melting the base free is approximately 100 Wm–2 and is usually available as waste heat from the electric power generator of the station. Conference Object Annals of Glaciology BORIS (Bern Open Repository and Information System, University of Bern) Annals of Glaciology 47 79 81 |
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Long-term maintenance of camp constructions on snow and ice surfaces involves repeated adjustments of the vertical position of buildings due to snow accumulation or ice ablation. The principle of a low-effort vertical-adjustment station structure is presented. The basic idea is to construct a floatable spherical-shaped building that can be lifted by adding water underneath, which will then refreeze, or can be lowered by melting ice away from the base. Under cold polar conditions, the power requirement for melting the base free is approximately 100 Wm–2 and is usually available as waste heat from the electric power generator of the station. |
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