.: They've made it back to Raven!

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

They've made it back to Raven!

Good news on all fronts. The team has made it back to Raven and all the cores have been picked up and are in the freezer in Kanger. Evan and Clem drove 13 hours yesterday pulling the radar - needless to say it was a long day and they were very happy to end their day in a warm hut. Evan said it was cold driving conditions, but a smooth ride. The next Herc arriving to Raven is 9 days away, so the team has lots of time to decompress from the traverse... Great job ACT11 team on a traverse well done!!!!

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Arctic Circle Traverse 2011

Recent atmospheric model results have indicated that the southeast portion of the Greenland Ice Sheet receives nearly 5 times more snow than the ice-sheet-wide mean. This would suggest that an additional 90 billion tons of ice must be added to the Greenland Ice Sheet mass budget. However, such high snowfall rates have never been observed in Greenland before. Thus it is important to confirm that these high accumulation peaks actually do exist. This is the goal of the Arctic Circle Traverse. In 2010, we drilled three cores in the southeast down to an elevation of 1725m and found accumulation rates of 1.8 m w.eq. (more snow than Alta!). In 2011 we plan to drill 4 more cores, and collect more than 300 km of radar profiles. We depart for Greenland on March 28th. Updates on the traverse will be kept on this blog as well as http://bprc.osu.edu/wiki/ACT. This year, we have arranged a real-time GPS satellite uplink that will map our position and other information every minute. The link to the mapping site is: http://www.datatransport.org/act/monitor Thanks for following and wish us luck!

Wednesday, May 11, 2011