Editing Snow (section)

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Snow can be compacted to form a [[snow road]] and be part of a [[Winter road|winter road route]] for vehicles to access isolated communities or construction projects during the winter.<ref name = Abele>Abele, G., 1990. Snow roads and runways, U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Monograph 90-3, Washington, D.C.</ref> Snow can also be used to provide the supporting structure and surface for a runway, as with the [[Phoenix Airfield]] in Antarctica. The snow-compacted runway is designed to withstand approximately 60 wheeled flights of heavy-lift military aircraft a year.<ref name="usap4212">{{cite web| url=http://www.usap.gov/News/contentHandler.cfm?id=4212| title=A New Runway for McMurdo Station is Named| publisher=National Science Foundation| date=7 April 2016| url-status=live| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160423090553/http://www.usap.gov/News/contentHandler.cfm?id=4212| archive-date=April 23, 2016| df=mdy-all}}</ref>