The SUBGLACIOR drilling probe: hydraulic considerations
Annals of Glaciology, 2021 Using significant technological breakthroughs and unconventional approaches, the goal of the in situ probing of glacier ice for a better understanding of the orbital response of climate (SUBGLACIOR) project is to advance ice core research by inventing ...
O. Alemany +9 more
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Agile Sub-Ice Geological (ASIG) Drill development and Pirrit Hills field project
Annals of Glaciology, 2021 A new drilling system was developed by the US Ice Drilling Program (IDP) to rapidly drill through overlying ice to collect subglacial rock cores. The Agile Sub-Ice Geological (ASIG) Drill system is capable of drilling up to 700 m of ice in a continuous ...
Tanner Kuhl +5 more
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RAM-2 Drill system development: an upgrade of the Rapid Air Movement Drill
Annals of Glaciology, 2021 Significant upgrades to the Rapid Air Movement (RAM) Drill were developed and tested by the US Ice Drilling Program in 2016 through 2020 for the U.S. National Science Foundation.
Christopher Gibson +6 more
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Antarctic subglacial drilling rig: Part II. Ice and Bedrock Electromechanical Drill (IBED)
Annals of Glaciology, 2021 A new, modified version of the cable-suspended Ice and Bedrock Electromechanical Drill (IBED) was designed for drilling in firn, ice, debris-rich ice and rock.
Pavel Talalay +18 more
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Pathfinder–Development of Automated Guided Vehicle for Hospital Logistics
IEEE Access, 2017 This paper describes the development of Pathfinder-an autonomous guided vehicle intended for the transportation of material in hospital environments.
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The BEAMISH hot water drill system and its use on the Rutford Ice Stream, Antarctica
Annals of Glaciology, 2021 During the 2018/19 Antarctic field season, the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) Basal conditions on Rutford Ice Stream: BEd Access, Monitoring and Ice Sheet History’ (BEAMISH) project drilled three holes through the Rutford Ice Stream, West Antarctica.
Paul G. D. Anker +3 more
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A continuous latitudinal energy balance model to explore non-uniform climate engineering strategies [PDF]
, 2019 In order to investigate the effects of solar radiation management (SRM) technologies for climate engineering, an analytical model describing the main latitu8 dinal dynamics of the Earth’s climate with closed-loop control has been developed.
Bonetti, Federica, McInnes, Colin
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Annals of Glaciology, 2017 Calving is a complex process subject to several cooperating atmospheric, oceanographic and glaciological forcings that vary in space and time, and whose relative effects are challenging to separate.
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Core handling, transportation and processing for the South Pole ice core (SPICEcore) project
Annals of Glaciology, 2021 An intermediate-depth (1751 m) ice core was drilled at the South Pole between 2014 and 2016 using the newly designed US Intermediate Depth Drill. The South Pole ice core is the highest-resolution interior East Antarctic ice core record that extends into ...
Joseph M. Souney +13 more
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Antarctic subglacial drilling rig: Part III. Drilling auxiliaries and environmental measures
Annals of Glaciology, 2021 The Antarctic subglacial drilling rig (ASDR) is designed to recover 105 mm-diameter ice cores up to 1400 m depth and 41.5 mm-diameter bedrock cores up to 2 m in length. In order to ensure safe and convenient drilling, drilling auxiliaries are designed to
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