Cold climate field experiments/measurements related to NUC:

• Various observations and measurements of wind and snowdrift around buildings, in terrain and around roads Wind measurements for planning of wind turbines
• Wind sheltering effects around porous panels with respect to Wind Chill Index and drifting snow
• Monitoring of atmospheric icing on large wind turbines at Nygårdsfjellet, Narvik
• Snowdrift experiments: Snowdrift around a cube and an elevated structure carried out at SANAE IV research station, Antarctica (Meiring Beyers)
• Field measurements of snowdrift around collector fences at Spitsbergen/Svalbard
• Small scale field measurements of snowdrift around building structures at Spitsbergen/Svalbard
• Monitoring of ground frost melting

From field measurements of snowdrift at Antarctica (left) and at Svalbard (right).