Journal
ANNALS OF GLACIOLOGY
Volume 55, Issue 68, Pages 233-242Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.3189/2014AoG68A026
Keywords
climate change; glaciological instruments and methods; ice coring
Funding
- European Community [291062]
- French Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) [SIM15-6ANR-11-BS56-0019]
- BNP Paribas Foundation
- 'Equipement d'Excellence' EquipEX CLIMCOR [ANR-11-EQPX-0009-CLIMCOR]
- IPEV (the French polar institute, through the 'SUBGLACIOR' project) [1119]
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) [ANR-11-EQPX-0009] Funding Source: Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR)
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In response to the 'oldest ice' challenge initiated by the International Partnerships in Ice Core Sciences (IPICS), new rapid-access drilling technologies through glacier ice need to be developed. These will provide the information needed to qualify potential sites on the Antarctic ice sheet where the deepest section could include ice that is >1 Ma old and still in good stratigraphic order. Identifying a suitable site will be a prerequisite for deploying a multi-year deep ice-core drilling operation to elucidate the cause and mechanisms of the mid-Pleistocene transition from 40 ka glacial interglacial cycles to 100 ka cycles. As part of the ICE&LASERS/SUBGLACIOR projects, we have designed an innovative probe, SUBGLACIOR, with the aim of perforating the ice sheet down to the bedrock in a single season and continuously measuring in situ the isotopic composition of the melted water and the methane concentration in trapped gases. Here we present the general concept of the probe, as well as the various technological solutions that we have favored so far to reach this goal.
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