Hot water drilling on the Amery Ice Shelf - the AMISOR project

• Main Authors: Craven,Michael, Elcheikh,Alan, Brand, Russell, Jones, Nic
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Antarctic CRC and Australian Antarctic Division/Antarctic CRC and Australian Antarctic Division/Antarctic CRC/Australian Antarctic Division Channel Hwy 2002
• Subjects: Amery; Amery Ice Shelf; Ice Shelf; Memoirs of National Institute of Polar Research; Polar Research
• Online Access: https://nipr.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_uri&item_id=2445; http://id.nii.ac.jp/1291/00002445/; https://nipr.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_action_common_download&item_id=2445&item_no=1&attribute_id=18&file_no=1

The hot water drilling component of the AMISOR (Amery Ice Shelf Oceanographic Research) project is designed to produce a series of access holes through the Amery Ice Shelf to allow measurements within the shelf and in the ocean water below. The data will be used to investigate the interaction of the...