Modelling tracer dispersion in subglacial Lake Vostok, Antarctica

• Main Authors: Thoma, Malte, Grosfeld, L., Mayer, Christoph
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: Antarc*; Antarctica; ice core
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/17311/; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.38219

Lake Vostok, isolated from direct exchange with the atmosphere by about 4 km of ice for millions of years, provides a unique environment. This inaccessibility raises the importance of numerical models to investigate the physical conditions within the lake. A topographic ridge splits the lake into a...