Sensitivity of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to 2 Degrees Celsius
Project Acronym: SWAIS 2C | State: In Operation | Expedition ID: 5072
Response of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) to projected warming remains a significant uncertainty in sea level rise projections. This project will focus on understanding past and current drivers, mechanisms and feedbacks that influence retreat of ice sheets, to reduce uncertainty in numerical model projections of future changes.
The SWAIS 2C Project will address the overarching question: How will marine-based ice sheets respond to a 2°C increase in global temperature and what are the local, regional, and global environmental consequences of this response if temperatures ultimately exceed this 2°C increase?
Keywords: Antarctica, Glacial Isostatic Adjustment, Ice Sheet, Melt Water, Sea Level
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SWAIS 2C sediment core
28.12.2023 SWAIS 2C
1.92 m of core from under the shelf ice
Happy and joyful holiday season
SWAIS 2C KIS-3 camp wish everyone
a happy and joyful holiday season
Hole through shelf ice completed
22 Dec 2023:
Hole through shelf ice completed
Hot water drilling begins!
18. Dec 2023
Hot water drilling begins
Preparing for hot water drilling
MoD 14.12
Preparing for hot water drilling
Hot water drilling system arrived
MoD 07 Dec 23:
Hot water drilling system arrived
11 members arrived at drill site
11 members of SWAIS 2C team arrived at drill site (5072) on Antarctica Day
First Scientists arrived
First Scientists arrived at site
Kamb Ice Stream
Traverse team arrives at Kamb Ice Stream
- SWAIS 2C sediment core
- Happy and joyful holiday season
- Hole through shelf ice completed
- Hot water drilling begins!
- Preparing for hot water drilling
- Hot water drilling system arrived
- 11 members arrived at drill site
- First Scientists arrived
- Kamb Ice Stream
Project Management
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Project Details
- Geologic age: Neogene - Quaternary
- Number of drillsites (drillholes): 1(12): 2024-Jan-15
- Drilled length: 9.6 m
- Cored length: 9.56 m
- Core recovered, length: 7.37 m
- Core recovered length / Cored length: 77%
- Core recovered / Drilled length: 77%
Keywords
- Drillsite Locations: Antarctica
- Coordinates: -82.6289, -156.305
- Please see map at bottom of page.
- ICDP Project ID: ICDP-2021/03
- ICDP Internal "Expedition" Identifier: 5072
- ICDP Internal Database Identifier: 4683
- ICDP Project Acronym: SWAIS 2C
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Drilling First Season
First core on deck on 22 December 2023