Provides guidance to United States Navy Personnel engaged in the planning, design, construction, alteration, repair, and maintenance of facilities in cold regions. Contains technical data useful in the development of engineering design in cold regions, material on climate, physical effects of cold, snow, ice, permafrost, descriptions of arctic, antarctic and subarctic regions, numerous maps, tables, graphs, photographs and drawings.

The main items dealt with in the monograph are: practice and problems, collection and transport, treatment and processes, thermology, re-use and regenerative processes, and construction and operation. (Author).