RAM-2 Drill system development: an upgrade of the Rapid Air Movement Drill

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. The design of the system leverages the existing infrastructure of the RAM Drill with the goal of greatly reducing the log...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Annals of Glaciology
Main Authors: Christopher Gibson, Grant Boeckmann, Zachary Meulemans, Tanner Kuhl, Jim Koehler, Jay Johnson, Kristina Slawny
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2021
Subjects:
compressed air drilling
ice coring
ice engineering
polar firn
Meteorology. Climatology
QC851-999
Greenland
Raven Camp
Annals of Glaciology
Antarc*
Antarctica
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1017/aog.2020.72
https://doaj.org/article/0db76d9d79ba4268b37ea61346d2c80b
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Summary: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. The design of the system leverages the existing infrastructure of the RAM Drill with the goal of greatly reducing the logistical burden of deploying the drill while maintaining the ability to drill an access hole in firn and ice to 100 m in 40 min or less. In this paper, characteristics of the drill are described, along with a description of the drill performance during the testing at Raven Camp in Greenland and at WAIS Divide Camp in Antarctica.

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