Articles | Volume 15, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-2235-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-2235-2021
Research article
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10 May 2021
Research article |  | 10 May 2021

The temperature change shortcut: effects of mid-experiment temperature changes on the deformation of polycrystalline ice

Lisa Craw, Adam Treverrow, Sheng Fan, Mark Peternell, Sue Cook, Felicity McCormack, and Jason Roberts

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Mechanical and microstructural data from ice deformation experiments with a change in temperature partway Lisa Craw, Adam Treverrow, Sheng Fan, Mark Peternell https://doi.org/10.4225/15/58eedf0d72be9

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Ice sheet and ice shelf models rely on data from experiments to accurately represent the way ice moves. Performing experiments at the temperatures and stresses that are generally present in nature takes a long time, and so there are few of these datasets. Here, we test the method of speeding up an experiment by running it initially at a higher temperature, before dropping to a lower target temperature to generate the relevant data. We show that this method can reduce experiment time by 55 %.