Past water flow beneath Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers, West Antarctica

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: Kirkham, James D., Hogan, Kelly A., Larter, Robert D., Arnold, Neil S., Nitsche, Frank O., Golledge, Nicholas R., Dowdeswell, Julian A.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; West Antarctica; Labyrinth; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Pine Island
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-1959-2019; https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/13/1959/2019/

Outburst floods from subglacial lakes beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet modulate ice-flow velocities over periods of months to years. Although subglacial lake drainage events have been observed from satellite-altimetric data, little is known about their role in the long-term evolution of ice-sheet bas...