Clean subglacial access: prospects for future deep hot-water drilling [PDF]
, 2015 Accessing and sampling subglacial environments deep beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet presents several challenges to existing drilling technologies. With over half of the ice sheet believed to be resting on a wet bed, drilling down to this environment must
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Subglacial discharge weakens the stability of the Ross Ice Shelf around the grounding line
Polar Research, 2021 In this paper, we examine potential impact of discharge in Subglacial Lake Engelhardt, West Antarctica, on the stability of the Ross Ice Shelf around the grounding line by combining satellite altimetry and remote sensing images.
Yan Li +4 more
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Detecting and Searching for subglacial lakes through airborne radio-echo sounding in Princess Elizabeth Land (PEL), Antarctica [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2020 Over 400 subglacial lakes were discovered in Antarctica through radio-echo sounding (RES) method and remote sensing. Subglacial lakes have significance in lubricating ice-bedrock interface and enhancing ice flow.
Cui Xiangbin +3 more
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Preliminary analysis of life within a former subglacial lake sediment in Antarctica [PDF]
, 2013 Since the first descriptions of Antarctic subglacial lakes, there has been a growing interest and awareness of the possibility that life will exist and potentially thrive in these unique and little known environments. The unusual combination of selection
Thorne, Michael A. S. +17 more
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Recoverable autonomous sonde for subglacial lake exploration: electronic control system design
Annals of Glaciology, 2021 Subglacial lake exploration is of great interest to the science community. RECoverable Autonomous Sonde (RECAS) provides an exploration tool to measure and sample subglacial lake environments while the subglacial lake remains isolated from the glacier ...
Shilin Peng +14 more
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Glaciohydraulic seismic tremors on an Alpine glacier [PDF]
The Cryosphere, 2020 Hydraulic processes impact viscous and brittle ice deformation. Water-driven fracturing as well as turbulent water flow within and beneath glaciers radiate seismic waves which provide insights into otherwise hard-to-access englacial and subglacial ...
F. Lindner +3 more
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Radar sounding survey over Devon Ice Cap indicates the potential for a diverse hypersaline subglacial hydrological environment [PDF]
The Cryosphere, 2022 Prior geophysical surveys provided evidence for a hypersaline subglacial lake complex beneath the center of Devon Ice Cap, Canadian Arctic; however, the full extent and characteristics of the hydrological system remained unknown due to limited data ...
A. Rutishauser +9 more
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Is Vostok lake in steady state? [PDF]
, 2004 Stable-isotope (D and 18O) data from the Vostok (East Antarctica) ice core are used to explore whether or not subglacial Vostok lake is in isotopic steady state. A simple box model shows that the lake is likely to be in steady state on time-scales of the
Royston-Bishop, G +9 more
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Penetration of Antarctic subglacial lakes by VHF electromagnetic pulses: Information on the depth and electrical conductivity of basal water bodies [PDF]
, 1999 Owing to the high level of absorption of very high frequency radio waves in water, previous investigators of airborne radio echo sounding (RES) data from Antarctica have assumed that the depth of subglacial lakes cannot be measured directly by this ...
Martin J. Siegert +3 more
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Modeling Antarctic subglacial lake filling and drainage cycles [PDF]
The Cryosphere, 2016 The growth and drainage of active subglacial lakes in Antarctica has previously been inferred from analysis of ice surface altimetry data. We use a subglacial hydrology model applied to a synthetic Antarctic ice stream to examine internal controls on the
C. F. Dow +3 more
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