Subglacial lakes and their changing role in a warming climate
Subglacial lakes are repositories of ancient climate conditions, provide habitats for life and modulate ice flow, basal hydrology, biogeochemical fluxes and geomorphic activity. In this Review, we construct the first global inventory of subglacial lakes (773 in total), which includes 675 from Antarc...
Published in: | Nature Reviews Earth & Environment |
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Main Authors: | , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |
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Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
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Nature Research
2021
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/93683 https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-021-00246-9 |