Passive snow removal with a vortex generator at the Pegasus runway, Antarctica

Annals of Glaciology

Volumn 26, Issue , 1998, Pages 231-236

  Lang, R M ^a,b   Blaisdell, George L ^a,b  

^a Sigma Technologies   (United States)

^b Engineer Research and Development Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RUNWAY CONSTRUCTION; SNOW REMOVAL; VORTEX GENERATOR;

ANTARCTICA;

EID: 0031761999     PISSN: 02603055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3189/1998aog26-1-231-236     Document Type: Article

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