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

[1] Lake Vostok, isolated from direct exchange with the atmosphere for millions of years, provides a unique, so far inaccessible habitat. By using a numerical model, and recent geometry information, the lake circulation was investigated for different salinites. For freshwater, thermally driven circu...

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Main Authors: C. Mayer, K. Grosfeld, M. J. Siegert
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 2003
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Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.471.6804
http://epic.awi.de/13592/1/Gro2003q.pdf