Aircraft-Deployable Ice Observation System (ADIOS) for instrumenting inaccessible glaciers

• Published in: Journal of Glaciology
• Main Authors: Jones, David H., Gudmundsson, G. Hilmar
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; West Antarctica; Pine Island Glacier; Scar Inlet; Antarc*; Antarctica; Journal of Glaciology; Pine Island
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/503748/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/503748/1/s12.pdf; https://doi.org/10.3189/2013JoG13J112

There remain large regions of scientific interest in the Antarctic that are not instrumented. These include highly dynamic ice streams and glaciers that are difficult or impossible to reach safely because heavy crevassing impedes an overland trek or an aircraft landing. We have developed an alternat...