Salinity impact on water flow and lake ice in Lake Vostok, Antarctica

• Published in: Geophysical Research Letters
• Main Authors: Mayer, Christoph, Grosfeld, Klaus, Siegert, M. J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2003
• Subjects: Lake Vostok; South Ice; Vostok Station; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/13592/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/13592/1/Gro2003q.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1029/2003GL017380; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.23968; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.23968.d001

Lake Vostok, isolated from direct exchange with the atmosphere for million years, provides a unique and so far inaccessible habitat. By using a numerical model, and recent lake geometry information, the lake circulation was investigated for different salinities. For freshwater, thermally driven circ...