Melting Performance Telemetry of the TRIPLE-IceCraft Melting Probe on the Ekström Ice Shelf, Antarctica

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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.

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DOI https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.995250
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.17815/jlsrf-2-152
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.23919/OCEANS44145.2021.9705999
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Provenance
Creator Zierke, Simon ORCID logo; Audehm, Jan; Do, Mia Giang; Espe, Clemens; Feldmann, Marco; Francke, Gero; Heinen, Dirk ORCID logo; Schöttler, Fabian; Wiebusch, Christopher ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2026
Funding Reference Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven https://doi.org/10.13039/501100003207 Crossref Funder ID AWI_ANT_20 TripleIceCraft; Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space https://doi.org/10.13039/501100002347 Crossref Funder ID 50RK1955 https://foerderportal.bund.de/foekat/jsp/SucheAction.do?actionMode=view&fkz=50RK1955 TRIPLE-IceCraft - Entwicklung einer Schmelzsonde (GSI GmbH); Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space https://doi.org/10.13039/501100002347 Crossref Funder ID 50RK1956 https://foerderportal.bund.de/foekat/jsp/SucheAction.do?actionMode=view&fkz=50RK1956 TRIPLE-IceCraft - Entwicklung einer Schmelzsonde (RWTH Aachen); Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space https://doi.org/10.13039/501100002347 Crossref Funder ID 50RK2450A https://foerderportal.bund.de/foekat/jsp/SucheAction.do?actionMode=view&fkz=50RK2450A TRIPLE-IceCraft-2 - Erforschung und Entwicklung einer Schmelzsonde (GSI GmbH); Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space https://doi.org/10.13039/501100002347 Crossref Funder ID 50RK2450B https://foerderportal.bund.de/foekat/jsp/SucheAction.do?actionMode=view&fkz=50RK2450B TRIPLE-IceCraft-2 - Erforschung und Entwicklung einer Schmelzsonde (RWTH Aachen); Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space https://doi.org/10.13039/501100002347 Crossref Funder ID 50RK2450C https://foerderportal.bund.de/foekat/jsp/SucheAction.do?actionMode=view&fkz=50RK2450C TRIPLE-IceCraft-2 - Erforschung und Entwicklung einer Schmelzsonde (HAW Hamburg)
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 456216 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-8.250W, -70.650S, -8.211E, -70.575N); Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica
Temporal Coverage Begin 2023-12-29T09:45:48Z
Temporal Coverage End 2023-12-30T21:36:00Z