PANGAEA_995250 Melting Performance Telemetry of the TRIPLE-IceCraft Melting Probe on the Ekström Ice Shelf, Antarctica Zierke, Simon; Audehm, Jan; Do, Mia Giang; Espe, Clemens; Feldmann, Marco; Francke, Gero; Heinen, Dirk; Schöttler, Fabian; Wiebusch, Christopher Melting Performance Telemetry of the TRIPLE-IceCraft Melting Probe on the Ekström Ice Shelf, Antarctica 2026-06-08 PANGAEA Dataset https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.995250 Investigator Simon Zierke zierke@physik.rwth-aachen.de Earth Science DATE/TIME DEPTH, ice/snow Feedrate Force Power, total Power, melting head geoscientificInformation Antarctica Ekström ice melting Melting probe Neumayer Neumayer_based Research station shelf ice telemetry TRIPLE-IceCraft-ANT23-24_probe WMO89002 Melting probe NEUMAYER III 2023-12-29 2023-12-30 Complete -70.65 -70.575 -8.25 -8.21094 0.00178 m (DEPTH, ice/snow) 53.13559 m (DEPTH, ice/snow) unrestricted CC-BY-4.0: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International English PANGAEA Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science https://www.pangaea.de/ Data Center Contact Michael Diepenbroek info@pangaea.de

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Bremen Bremen 28359 Germany online 456216 data points text/tab-separated-values Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung (2016): Neumayer III and Kohnen Station in Antarctica operated by the Alfred Wegener Institute. Journal of large-scale research facilities JLSRF, 2, A85, https://doi.org/10.17815/jlsrf-2-152 Heinen, Dirk; Audehm, Jan; Becker, Fabian; Boeck, Georg; Espe, Clemens; Feldmann, Marco; Francke, Gero; Friend, Pia; Haberberger, Niklas; Helbin, Klaus; Thanh Nghe, Chi; Stelzig, Michael; Vossiek, Martin; Wiebusch, Christopher; Zierke, Simon (2021): The TRIPLE Melting Probe - an Electro-Thermal Drill with a Forefield Reconnaissance System to Access Subglacial Lakes and Oceans, OCEANS 2021: San Diego - Porto, San Diego, CA, USA. 7 pp, https://doi.org/10.23919/OCEANS44145.2021.9705999

This dataset contains operational telemetry recorded during the TRIPLE-IceCraft technical demonstration conducted in the 2023/2024 field season. The experiment was carried out near Neumayer Station III, approximately 1 km south of the edge of the Ekström Ice Shelf. During the campaign, the TRIPLE-IceCraft melting probe successfully drilled a vertical borehole to a final depth of 53 m. The IceCraft is equipped with an internal cable storage system that unspools the cable in a controlled manner during descent, ensuring a constant contact pressure on the melting surface. The controlled parameter is the tensile force acting on the cable, which is anchored to a surface crane. The probe features a forward melting head for downward melting, a rear melting head enabling upward re-melting during recovery, and side heater elements to prevent refreezing to the melt channel walls. The dataset provides time-resolved measurements of probe depth, feedrate, applied cable force, total electrical power consumption, and calculated front melting head power. The reported total power represents the combined electrical power of all onboard systems, including melting heads and side heaters, while the calculated melting head power corresponds exclusively to the forward melting head. These data document the temporal evolution of the melting process and the interaction between the probe and the surrounding ice under real conditions. ** For all details see the full metadata description at "https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.995250"!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force Force http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601 DATE/TIME https://doi.org/10.17815/jlsrf-2-152 NEUMAYER III https://doi.org/10.17815/jlsrf-2-152 Neumayer III and Kohnen Station in Antarctica operated by the Alfred Wegener Institute https://doi.org/10.23919/OCEANS44145.2021.9705999 The TRIPLE Melting Probe - an Electro-Thermal Drill with a Forefield Reconnaissance System to Access Subglacial Lakes and Oceans, OCEANS 2021: San Diego - Porto, San Diego, CA, USA DIF 9.4 2026-06-08 2026-06-17