Recent advances in understanding Antarctic subglacial lakes and hydrology

• Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
• Main Authors: Siegert, Martin J., Ross, Neil, Le Brocq, Anne M.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: The Royal Society Publishing 2016
• Subjects: Articles; Antarctic; Lake Vostok; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4685968/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26667914; https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2014.0306

It is now well documented that over 400 subglacial lakes exist across the bed of the Antarctic Ice Sheet. They comprise a variety of sizes and volumes (from the approx. 250 km long Lake Vostok to bodies of water less than 1 km in length), relate to a number of discrete topographic settings (from tho...