... resulting from past practice have also implemented active pollution abatement programs. However, this paper is limited to the U.S. Antarctic Program pollution abatement at McMurdo Station. Antarctica Antarctica is the coldest and the driest continent on earth, and was largely unknown until four decades ago...

... to the continent at the earliest possible date, thus a key operational objective is to extend usage of the seasonal runway for as long a period as is safe and reasonable. In the best of years, air operations are not relocated to a subordinate ski facility until after the ice runway is abandoned because...