Modeling circulation and seasonal fluctuations in perennially ice‐covered and ice‐walled Lake Untersee, Antarctica

• Published in: Limnology and Oceanography
• Main Authors: Steel, H. C. B., McKay, C. P., Andersen, D. T.
• Other Authors: Tawani Foundation of Chicago, Trottier Family Foundation, NASA's Exobiology and Astrobiology Programs and the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute/Russian Antarctic Expedition, Antarctic Logistics Centre International
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2015
• Subjects: Anuchin Glacier; Untersee; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/lno.10086; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Flno.10086; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/lno.10086; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1002/lno.10086; https://aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/lno.10086

Lake Untersee, Antarctica, is a freshwater perennially ice covered lake bounded along its north by the Anuchin glacier. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology general circulation model, used on a representative wedge‐shaped lake and actual bathymetry for Lake Untersee, produces estimates for circ...