Along-flow profile over the basal body just outside the ice stream
Friday 5th July 2024
Along-flow profile over the basal body just outside the ice stream
Today was a ‘Sunday’ in camp since we celebrated 4th of July yesterday and we will stick to a normal working schedule in the coming weekend to prepare for the pull-out. Therefore, the day started out a bit slowly with brunch at 11 AM, but in the end we got all timber out of the trenches, the large sledge with wood got sorted, the building of pallets continued, electrical cables were recovered, and we worked on the camp inventory figuring out what should stay and what should go. The forecast for the weekend is promising, so we hope Knut’s radar team can do their last survey and that we can start grooming the skiway and take down more weatherports in the coming days. Today’s pictures feature some of the amazing radargrams the radar team obtains from the interior of the ice sheet we are sitting on. Despite the flat ice sheet, we experience here at the surface, there are all kinds of folding and other features in the interior of the ice sheet that can help us reconstruct its history and the dynamics of the present ice sheet.
What we did today:
Weather today: Starting out a bit disheartening with overcast and windy conditions, the evening turned out sunny and calm. So inspiring that several teams went out working in the evening (maybe compensating for watching a pivotal soccer match earlier in the day). Temperatures from -17 °C to -5 °C. Wind 2-13 kt from W.
FL, Anders Svensson
Mid-depth layering
Interface between meteoric ice and basal body outside of the ice stream, interior of basal body
Multipass line from center of ice stream at the EastGRIP core site to shear margin, across flow, along the old seismic line from 2012