Drainage networks, lakes and water fluxes beneath the Antarctic ice sheet

• Published in: Annals of Glaciology
• Main Authors: Willis, Ian C., Pope, Ed L., Leysinger Vieli, Gwendolyn J.-M.C., Arnold, Neil S., Long, Sylvan
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; Byrd; Byrd Glacier; Flood Range; Annals of Glaciology; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/516199/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/516199/1/div-class-title-drainage-networks-lakes-and-water-fluxes-beneath-the-antarctic-ice-sheet-div.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1017/aog.2016.15

Antarctica Bedmap2 datasets are used to calculate subglacial hydraulic potential and the area, depth and volume of hydraulic potential sinks. There are over 32 000 contiguous sinks, which can be thought of as predicted lakes. Patterns of subglacial melt are modelled with a balanced ice flux flow mod...