Modelling channelized surface drainage of supraglacial lakes

• Main Authors: Kingslake, Jonathan, Ng, F., Sole, A.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Columbia University 2015
• Subjects: Ice sheets > Remote sensing; Ice > Dynamics; Glacial lakes; Geophysics; Hydrology; East Antarctica; Nivlisen; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8kk9bpp; https://academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/10.7916/D8KK9BPP

Supraglacial lakes can drain to the bed of ice sheets, affecting ice dynamics, or over their surface, relocating surface water. Focusing on surface drainage, we first discuss observations of lake drainage. In particular, for the first time, lakes are observed to drain <70 km across the Nivlisen i...