Oxygen budget of a perennially ice-covered Antarctic lake

• Main Authors: Wharton, R. A., Jr., Mckay, C. P., Simmons, G. M., Jr., Parker, B. C.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 1986
• Subjects: 43; Antarctic; Hoare; Lake Hoare; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=19860058714

A bulk O2 budget for Lake Hoare, Antarctica, is presented. Five years of seasonal data show the lake to be persistently supersaturated with O2. Oxygen is carried into the lake in glacial meltstreams and is left behind when this water is removed as ice by ablation and sublimation. A diffusive loss of...