Subglacial Lake Vostok not expected to discharge water

• Published in: Geophysical Research Letters
• Main Authors: Richter, Andreas Jorg, Popov, Sergey V., Schroeder, Ludwig, Schwabe, Joachim, Ewert, Heiko, Scheinert, Mirko, Horwath, Martin, Dietrich, Reinhard
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Geophysical Union
• Subjects: Subglacial Lake; Subglacial Hydrology; Glaciology; Antarctica; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.5; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Ross Ice Shelf; Argentina; Andreas; Lake Vostok; Antarc*; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/32993

The question whether Antarctica's largest lake, subglacial Lake Vostok, exchanges water is of interdisciplinary relevance but has been undecided so far. We present the potential pathway, outlet location, and threshold height of subglacial water discharge from this lake based on a quantitative e...