An inventory of supraglacial lakes and channels across the West Antarctic Ice Sheet

• Main Authors: Corr, Diarmuid, Leeson, Amber, McMillan, Malcolm, Zhang, Ce, Barnes, Thomas
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; The Antarctic; The Sentinel; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2021-257; https://essd.copernicus.org/preprints/essd-2021-257/

Quantifying the extent and distribution of supraglacial hydrology, i.e. lakes and streams, is important for understanding the mass balance of the Antarctic ice sheet, and its consequent contribution to global sea level rise. The existence of meltwater on the ice surface has the potential to affect i...