Antarctic subglacial groundwater: a concept paper on its measurement and potential influence on ice flow ...
Is groundwater abundant in Antarctica and does it modulate ice flow? Answering this question matters because ice streams flow by gliding over a wet substrate of till. Water fed to ice-stream beds thus influences ice-sheet dynamics and, potentially, sea-level rise. It is recognised that both till and...
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ftdatacite:10.17863/cam.8570 2024-02-27T08:33:53+00:00 Antarctic subglacial groundwater: a concept paper on its measurement and potential influence on ice flow ... Siegert, MJ Kulessa, B Bougamont, MH Christoffersen, P Key, K Andersen, KR Booth, AD Smith, AM 2018 https://dx.doi.org/10.17863/cam.8570 https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/263250 en eng Geological Society 3707 Hydrology 3709 Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience 37 Earth Sciences 3705 Geology 13 Climate Action article-journal ScholarlyArticle JournalArticle Article 2018 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.17863/cam.8570 2024-02-01T14:51:56Z Is groundwater abundant in Antarctica and does it modulate ice flow? Answering this question matters because ice streams flow by gliding over a wet substrate of till. Water fed to ice-stream beds thus influences ice-sheet dynamics and, potentially, sea-level rise. It is recognised that both till and the sedimentary basins from which it originates are porous and could host a reservoir of mobile groundwater that interacts with the subglacial interfacial system. According to recent numerical modelling up to half of all water available for basal lubrication, and time lags between hydrological forcing and ice-sheet response as long as millennia, may have been overlooked in models of ice flow. Here, we review evidence in support of Antarctic groundwater and propose how it can be measured to ascertain the extent to which it modulates ice flow. We present new seismoelectric soundings of subglacial till, and magnetotelluric and transient electromagnetic forward models of subglacial groundwater reservoirs. We ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica Ice Sheet DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Antarctic |
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Is groundwater abundant in Antarctica and does it modulate ice flow? Answering this question matters because ice streams flow by gliding over a wet substrate of till. Water fed to ice-stream beds thus influences ice-sheet dynamics and, potentially, sea-level rise. It is recognised that both till and the sedimentary basins from which it originates are porous and could host a reservoir of mobile groundwater that interacts with the subglacial interfacial system. According to recent numerical modelling up to half of all water available for basal lubrication, and time lags between hydrological forcing and ice-sheet response as long as millennia, may have been overlooked in models of ice flow. Here, we review evidence in support of Antarctic groundwater and propose how it can be measured to ascertain the extent to which it modulates ice flow. We present new seismoelectric soundings of subglacial till, and magnetotelluric and transient electromagnetic forward models of subglacial groundwater reservoirs. We ... |
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Antarctic subglacial groundwater: a concept paper on its measurement and potential influence on ice flow ... |
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