Past water flow beneath Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers, West Antarctica

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: Kirkham, James D., Hogan, Kelly A., Larter, Robert D., Arnold, Neil S., Nitsche, Frank O., Golledge, Nicholas R., Dowdeswell, Julian A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2019
• Subjects: article; Verlagsveröffentlichung; Antarctic; Labyrinth; The Antarctic; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Pine Island; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-1959-2019; https://noa.gwlb.de/receive/cop_mods_00000850; https://noa.gwlb.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/cop_derivate_00000812/tc-13-1959-2019.pdf; https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/13/1959/2019/tc-13-1959-2019.pdf

Outburst floods from subglacial lakes beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet modulate ice-flow velocities over periods of months to years. Although subglacial lake drainage events have been observed from satellite-altimetric data, little is known about their role in the long-term evolution of ice-sheet bas...