Airfields on Antarctic Glacier Ice
Author : Malcolm Mellor
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Page : 112 pages
File Size : 37,53 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Ice sheets
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Author : Malcolm Mellor
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Page : 112 pages
File Size : 37,53 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Ice sheets
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Author : Malcolm Mellor
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Page : 97 pages
File Size : 11,25 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Ice sheets
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Author : Malcolm Mellor
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Page : 100 pages
File Size : 10,80 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Antarctica
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Author : Charles Swithinbank
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Page : 80 pages
File Size : 49,58 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Airports
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Page : 100 pages
File Size : 14,14 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Arctic regions
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Author : George L. Blaisdell
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Page : 144 pages
File Size : 33,13 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Glaciers
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On 7 February 1994, a C-141 departed Christchurch, New Zealand, and landed on the 3050 m (10,000-ft) Pegasus glacial ice runway, located on the Ross Ice Shelf 13 km (8 miles) south of McMurdo, Antarctica. This event marked the final test for a five-year development program to demonstrate the feasibility of a semipermanent glacial ice runway capable of supporting heavy wheeled aircraft at a site easily accessible to McMurdo. In the later phases of developing the glacial ice runway, numerous working flights of LC-130s operating on wheels (rather than skis) moved cargo more efficiently to the South Pole, and the LC-130 and a C-130 carried larger passenger loads to Christchurch. The primary benefit of the Pegasus runway to the U.S. Antarctic Program is its ability to support heavy wheeled aircraft for most of the period of mid-January through November. In the past, only ski-equipped aircraft could land in the McMurdo area during this time period. The Pegasus runway allows increased payloads for the LC-130 (an additional 3600-kg or 8000-lb takeoff weight when using wheels) and provides access for virtually any conventional aircraft. The technology for siting, constructing, maintaining, and operating such a runway is now well understood and is described in detail in this comprehensive report.
Author : Anthony J. Gow
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Page : 28 pages
File Size : 15,34 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Bubbles
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Cores obtained to the bottom of the Antarctic Ice Sheet at Byrd Station were used to analyze the physical properties of air bubbles trapped in the ice. Parameters measured were the sizes, shapes, abundances, spatial distributions, gas volumes and pressure of bubbles, and their variations with depth in the ice sheet. Bubbles occur abundantly in the top 800 m of ice but then gradually disappear until they can no longer be detected optically below 1100 m. This disappearance is not accompanied by any significant loss of air from the ice and all available evidence indicates that the air actually diffuses into the ice in response to increasing overburden pressure. Bubble pressure measurements show that (1) bubbles with pressures exceeding about 16 bars begin to relax back to this value soon after in situ pressures are relieved by drilling, (2) further slow decompression occurs with time, and (3) the rate of decompression is controlled to some extent by the intrinsic structural properties of the ice and its thermal and deformational history. Only small variations were observed in the entrapped air content of the ice cores; they probably reflect variations in the temperature and/or pressure of the air at the time of its entrapment, but the data are not sufficient to draw any firm conclusions regarding past variations in ice sheet thickness. Only ice from the bottom 4.83 m was found to lack any detectable trace of air.
Author : Henry M. Dater
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Page : 36 pages
File Size : 16,37 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Aeronautics
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Page : 12 pages
File Size : 25,84 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Cold regions
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Author : Malcolm Mellor
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Page : 160 pages
File Size : 36,36 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Aeronautics
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