Ice-flow sensitivity to boundary processes: A coupled model study in the vostok subglacial lake area, antarctica

• Main Authors: Thoma, Malte, Grosfeld, Klaus, Mayer, Christoph, Pattyn, Frank
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Géologie et minéralogie; Vostok Subglacial Lake; Annals of Glaciology; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/167861; https://dipot.ulb.ac.be/dspace/bitstream/2013/167861/3/doi_151491.pdf

Several hundred subglacial lakes have been identified beneath Antarctica so far. Their interaction with the overlying ice sheet and their influence on ice dynamics are still subjects of investigation.While it is known that lakes reduce the ice-sheet friction towards a free-slip basal boundary condit...