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  • In this transient electromagnetic survey, twenty-one soundings were acquired every 500 m along a 10 km long profile on Larsen C Ice Shelf, Antarctic Peninsula in December 2022. The transient electromagnetic data were acquired with a Geonics PROTEM47 system and a 4 x 100m square transmitter loop. The transient electromagnetic data were acquired to image the marine ice at the base of the Larsen C Ice Shelf in this suture zone, as part of the NERC-funded RiPIce (Rift Propagation for Ice sheet models) research project. This project is funded by a NERC standard grant NE/T008016/1.

  • Turbulent velocity fluctuations in the ice shelf-ocean boundary layer beneath Larsen C Ice Shelf were observed using two turbulence instrument clusters (TICs) deployed 2.5 m and 13.5 m beneath the ice shelf base in December 2011. Each TIC sampled the velocity fluctuations at a rate of 5 Hz, and were operated in burst mode with 15 minutes of data being collected every two hours. 4600 bursts were collected over a period of 392 days. 320 bursts failed the quality control checks, and were removed from the dataset. The TICs were deployed as part of the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Sub Ice Shelf Boundary Layer Experiment. Funding was provided by the NERC grant NE/H009205/1.

  • This active source seismic survey was acquired at JP-21 (-68.008614degN, -64.367714degE) on Larsen C Ice Shelf, Antarctic Peninsula in December 2022. The active-source reflection seismic data were acquired with a spread of 48 vertical component geophones of 100 Hz with a sledgehammer impacting a thick plastic plate. The geophones were placed at 2 m intervals, making the total spread length 94 m. Data were collected mid-way between individual geophones starting at off-end location -1 m and finishing at +95 m, thus totalling 49 shots along the spread. At least five hammer shots were acquired for each shot point. The seismic data were acquired to image the marine ice at the base of the Larsen C Ice Shelf in this suture zone, as part of the NERC-funded RiPIce (Rift Propagation for Ice sheet models) research project. This project was funded by a NERC standard grant NE/T008016/1.

  • This archive is a suite of ground penetrating radar (GPR) data acquired by Project MIDAS during field campaigns on Larsen C, in 2014 and 2015. All data were acquired with a Sensors&Software pulsEKKO PRO GPR system, fitted with antennas of 200 MHz centre-frequency. The system was towed behind a snowmobile, with distances recorded with GPS. These data are part of the NERC-funded MIDAS ('Impact of surface melt and ponding on ice shelf dynamics and stability') research project, with grant references NE/L006707/1 and NE/L005409/1. Other MIDAS data are available.

  • Velocity maps were derived, for regions of Larsen C ice shelf, from satellite imagery spanning the period November 2017 to April 2019. This period was selected to monitor any change in the velocity field of Larsen C, in the months following the calving of iceberg A68 from the front of the ice shelf. The archive contains two sets of maps. The first are derived from Sentinel-1 satellite data, and span the complete ice shelf for the full 18-month epoch. The second are derived from TerraSAR-X data, and show high-resolution velocity trends between 2017 and 2018, covering the frontal region of Larsen C ice shelf. The maps were produced by Professor Adrian Luckman, Swansea University. The data is part of the NERC RACE project, NE/R012334/1.

  • These are digital optical televiewer (OPTV) logs of five boreholes drilled by hot water to ~100 m depth in Larsen C Ice Shelf, Antarctica. Boreholes were drilled in austral summers of 2014 and 2015 in order to investigate the internal properties of the ice shelf, and specifically the influence of surface melting and melt pond formation on those properties. These data are part of the NERC-funded MIDAS ('Impact of surface melt and ponding on ice shelf dynamics and stability') research project, with grant references NE/L006707/1 and NE/L005409/1. Borehole density and temperature profiles are also available, as are other MIDAS datasets.

  • The datasets are temperature time series from thermistor strings installed into two boreholes drilled to a depth of ~7 m in the northern sector of Larsen C Ice Shelf, Antarctica. Supporting borehole information is presented by Ashmore and others (2017). These data are part of the NERC-funded MIDAS ('Impact of surface melt and ponding on ice shelf dynamics and stability') research project, with grant references NE/L006707/1 and NE/L005409/1. Associated (longer) borehole temperature records, OPTV logs and density records are also available, as are other MIDAS datasets.

  • This dataset contains output from a hydrodynamic model of the ocean in the Larsen C Ice Shelf (LCIS) cavity and a nearby area of the western Wedell Sea. Simulations were run using the MITgcm numerical ocean model and included an ice shelf with steady thickness. A new LCIS bathymetry was used in the simulations, referred to as the 'Brisbourne' bathymetry. The data provided here includes these geometry grids and ocean velocity and basal melt rate fields output from the final year of an arbitrary 10-year simulation, or a 6-month extension run. Calculated marine ice fields beneath the ice shelf based on the simulation's melt rate results are also included. In addition, output from several simulations using different initial and boundary ocean temperature conditions and runs with different cavity geometries are also provided. This work was supported by the Natural Environment Research Council and the EnvEast Doctoral Training Partnership [grant number NE/L002582/1] and PICCOLO [grant number NE/P021395/1].

  • We present here a suite of ground-penetrating radar (GPR) data collected on Larsen C Ice Shelf, Antarctic Peninsula, in November and December 2022 as part of the NERC-funded RiPIce (Rift Propagation for Ice sheet models) research project. All data were acquired with a Sensors&Software pulsEKKO PRO GPR system, fitted with antennas of 50 MHz centre-frequency. The system was towed behind a snowmobile, with distances recorded with GPS. This project is funded by a NERC standard grant NE-T008016-1.

  • Velocity and along-flow stress states were modelled for Larsen C ice shelf, before and after the calving of iceberg A68 in July 2017. The archive contains two sets of model outputs: i) flow velocity before and after calving, and the difference between these periods, and ii) along-flow stress before and calving, and the difference between these periods. The models are produced with the BISICLES ice sheet model. Additionally to high-resolution geo-referenced model outputs, a low-resolution image of each is provided for reference. The maps were produced by Dr Stephen Cornford, Swansea University. The data is part of the NERC RACE project, NE/R012334/1.