The Hans Tausen drill: design, performance, further developments and some lessons learned

• Main Authors: Johnsen, Sigfús J., Hansen, Steffen Bo, Sheldon, Simon G., Dahl-Jensen, Dorthe, Steffensen, Jørgen P., Augustin, Laurent, Journé, Paul, Alemany, Olivier, Rufli, Henry, Schwander, Jakob, Azuma, Nobuhiko, Motoyama, Hideaki, Popp, Trevor, Talalay, Pavel, Thorsteinsson, Thorsteinn, Wilhelms, Frank, Zagorodnov, Victor
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: International Glaciological Society 2007
• Subjects: 530 Physics; Greenland; Peary; Berkner Island; Peary Land; Antarc*; Antarctica; EPICA; GRIP; Ice cap
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.48350/158776; https://boris.unibe.ch/158776/

In the mid-1990s, excellent results from the GRIP and GISP2 deep drilling projects in Greenland opened up funding for continued ice-coring efforts in Antarctica (EPICA) and Greenland (NorthGRIP). The Glaciology Group of the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, was assigned the task of pro...