Seasonal Evolution of Supraglacial Lakes on a Major East Antarctic Outlet Glacier

• Main Author: LANGLEY, EMILY,SUSAN
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Supraglacial Lakes; East Antarctica; Glacial Hydrology; Ice Motion; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Dronning Maud Land; Greenland; Langhovde; Langhovde Glacier; Antarc*; Antarctica; glacier; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/11686/; http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/11686/1/ESLangley_MSCR_Thesis.pdf

Supraglacial lakes (SGLs) are ponds of water that develop in topographic undulations on glaciers and ice sheets during the ablation season. They have been extensively studied in Greenland and, to a lesser extent, the Antarctic Peninsula, where they are thought to influence ice motion and ice shelf s...