Brief communication: The Danish replicate drilling system –  results from the first field test

Westhoff, Julien; Boeckmann, Grant Vernon; Rathmann, Nicholas Mossor; Hansen, Steffen Bo

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-3623-2025

Articles | Volume 19, issue 9

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-3623-2025

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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-3623-2025

© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 19, issue 9

Brief communication

|

10 Sep 2025

Brief communication |

| 10 Sep 2025

Brief communication: The Danish replicate drilling system – results from the first field test

Julien Westhoff, Grant Vernon Boeckmann, Nicholas Mossor Rathmann, and Steffen Bo Hansen

Data sets

Supplement to The Danish Replicate Drilling System - Results from the First Field Test Julien Westhoff et al. https://doi.org/10.17894/ucph.6657aa80-1cc6-4df7-b813-c8c0d5af00f7

Short summary

We report on the successful test of a new replicate drilling system for ice cores. This system allows for the ice core drill to deviate from the parent (the original borehole), drilling into the side of the wall. Thus, we can produce a second ice core from any desired depth, increasing the amount of sample available for scientific purposes. In the paper, we present the results from the first field tests and the challenges we encountered.