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

• Main Authors: Kirkham, JD, Hogan, KA, Larter, RD, Arnold, NS, Nitsche, FO, Golledge, NR, Dowdeswell, JA
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus GmbH 2019
• Subjects: 37 Earth Sciences; 3709 Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience; 3705 Geology; 13 Climate Action; Antarctic; Labyrinth; The Antarctic; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Pine Island
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.17863/cam.41963; https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/294874

Abstract. 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...