Drainage networks, lakes and water fluxes beneath the Antarctic ice sheet

• Main Authors: Willis, IC, Pope, EL, Leysinger Vieli, GJMC, Arnold, NS, Long, S
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: International Glaciological Society 2016
• Subjects: Antarctic glaciology; glacier hydrology; ice-sheet modelling; subglacial lakes; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Byrd; Ner; Harper; Byrd Glacier; Flood Range; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/254917

<jats:title>ABSTRACT</jats:title><jats:p>Antarctica Bedmap2 datasets are used to calculate subglacial hydraulic potential and the area, depth and volume of hydraulic potential sinks. There are over 32 000 contiguous sinks, which can be thought of as predicted lakes. Patterns of sub...