Active lakes in Antarctica survive on a sedimentary substrate – Part 1: Theory

• Main Authors: Carter, S. P., Fricker, H. A., Siegfried, M. R.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Antarctic; Mercer; The Antarctic; Whillans; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tcd-9-2053-2015; https://tc.copernicus.org/preprints/tc-2015-17/

Over the past decade satellite observations have revealed that active subglacial lake systems are widespread under the Antarctic ice sheet, including the ice streams, yet we have insufficient understanding of the lake-drainage process to incorporate it into ice sheet models. Process models for drain...