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  • 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.

  • Year-long mooring dataset from beneath George VI Ice Shelf between January 2012 and January 2013. Contains turbulence mooring data from two instruments initially at 2.57 m and 13.57 m beneath the ice base. High resolution 3D velocity data and temperature data at two instruments are included, as well as low-resolution thermistor data. The processing of this data was funded by a grant from the Natural Environment Research Council, NE/L002507/1.

  • Autosub Long Range (ALR) was deployed along the Modified Warm Deep Water Inflow beneath Ronne Ice Shelf in February 2018 as part of the Ice shelves in a warming world: Filchner Ice Shelf system large grant, Antarctica. The vehicle was equipped with a Seabird Conductivity-Temperature-Depth (CTD) sensor, two Teledyne Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers (ADCPs), one upward looking and one downward looking, and a nose-mounted Rockland Scientific International MicroRider turbulence package. ALR followed a rhumb line course beneath the ice shelf, running approximately parallel to the 400 m isobath. The vehicle alternated between stretches of bottom tracking and top tracking in a square-wave pattern, while maintaining a minimum clearance of 80 m between the vehicle and the ice base or seabed. Funding was provided by the UK Natural Environment Research Council Large Grant Ice shelves in a warming world: Filchner Ice Shelf system, Antarctica (Grant No. NE/L013770/1).