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

• Published in: Annals of Glaciology
• Main Authors: JOHNSEN, Sigfus, HENSEN, Steffen Bo, SHELDON, Simon G., DAHL-JENSEN, Dorthe, STEFFENSEN, Jorgen P., AUGUSTIN, Laurent, JOURNÉ, Paul, ALEMANY, Olivier, RUFLI, Henry, SCHWANDER, Jakob, AZUMA, Nobuhiko, MOTOYAMA, Hideaki, POPP, Trevor, TALALAY, Pavel, THORSTEINSSON, Throstur, WILHELMS, Frank, ZAGORODNOV, Victor
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: International Glaciological Society 2007
• Subjects: Planète et Univers [physics]/Sciences de la Terre/Glaciologie; Berkner Island; Greenland; Peary; Peary Land; Antarc*; Antarctica; EPICA; GRIP; Ice cap
• Online Access: https://oskar-bordeaux.fr/handle/20.500.12278/28334; https://doi.org/10.3189/172756407786857686

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...