Connected subglacial lake drainage beneath Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: Smith, Benjamin, Gourmelen, Noel, Huth, Alexander, Joughin, Ian
• Other Authors: School of Mathematics and statistics Sydney, The University of Sydney, Dynamique globale et déformation active (IPGS) (IPGS-DGDA), Institut de physique du globe de Strasbourg (IPGS), Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2017
• Subjects: [SDU.STU.GP]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Geophysics [physics.geo-ph]; [SDU.STU.GL]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Glaciology; Thwaites Glacier; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-01858777; https://hal.science/hal-01858777/document; https://hal.science/hal-01858777/file/tc-11-451-2017.pdf; https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-451-2017

International audience We present conventional and swath altimetry data from CryoSat-2, revealing a system of subglacial lakes that drained between June 2013 and January 2014 under the central part of Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica (TWG). Much of the drainage happened in less than 6 months, with...