Recent advances in understanding Antarctic subglacial lakes and hydrology

• Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
• Main Authors: Siegert, Martin J., Ross, Neil, Le Brocq, Anne M.
• Other Authors: UK NERC
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Royal Society 2016
• Subjects: Antarc*; Antarctic; Antarctica; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2014.0306; https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsta.2014.0306; https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full-xml/10.1098/rsta.2014.0306

It is now well documented that over 400 subglacial lakes exist across the bed of the Antarctic Ice Sheet. They comprise a variety of sizes and volumes (from the approx. 250 km long Lake Vostok to bodies of water less than 1 km in length), relate to a number of discrete topographic settings (from tho...