Subglacial lakes and hydrology across the Ellsworth Subglacial Highlands, West Antarctica

• Main Authors: Napoleoni, Felipe, Jamieson, Stewart S.R., Ross, Neil, Bentley, Michael J., Rivera, Andrés, Smith, Andrew M., Siegert, Martin J., Paxman, Guy J. G., Gacitúa, Guisella, Uribe, José A., Zamora, Rodrigo, Brisbourne, Alex M., Vaughan, David G.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Ellsworth Subglacial Highlands; Pine Island Glacier; Rutford; Rutford Ice Stream; Thwaites Glacier; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Pine Island
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2020-68; https://tc.copernicus.org/preprints/tc-2020-68/

Subglacial water plays an important role in ice sheet dynamics and stability. It is often located at the onset of ice streams and has the potential to enhance ice flow downstream by lubricating the ice-bed interface. The most recent subglacial lake inventory of Antarctica mapped nearly 400 lakes, of...