Antarctic subglacial lake discharges

• Main Author: Pattyn, Frank
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: Climatologie; Géodésie appliquée topographie [géodésie]; Glaciologie; Mécanique des milieux continus; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Géodésie; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/130659

Antarctic subglacial lakes were long time supposed to be relatively closed and stable environments with long residence times and slow circulations. This view has recently been challenged with evidence of active subglacial lake discharge underneath the Antarctic ice sheet. Satellite altimetry observa...