Borehole density profiles reconstructed from calibrated optical televiewer (OPTV) logs from the northern sector of Larsen C Ice Shelf, Antarctica

These are vertical density profiles of snow, firn and ice reconstructed from the vertical luminosity trace of 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, as part of the NERC-funded MIDAS ("Impact of surface melt and ponding on ice shelf dynamics and stability") research project. The associated borehole OPTV logs are also available, as are more general data including borehole temperature profiles, surface radar profiles, flow-line model code, AWS data and SMB data.