Subglacial Lake Vostok not expected to discharge water

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 19, 2014, Pages 6772-6778

  Richter, Andreas ^a   Popov, Sergey V ^b   Schröder, Ludwig ^a   Schwabe, Joachim ^a   Ewert, Heiko ^a   Scheinert, Mirko ^a   Horwath, Martin ^a   Dietrich, Reinhard ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b Polar Marine Geosurvey Expedition ^*  (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Antarctica; glaciology; subglacial hydrology; subglacial lake

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; GLACIERS; HYDROLOGY;

ANTARCTICA; FLUID POTENTIALS; GLACIOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION; ROSS ICE SHELVES; SUBGLACIAL HYDROLOGY; SUBGLACIAL LAKES; SUBGLACIAL WATERS;

LAKES;

BEDROCK; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; DISCHARGE; GLACIAL HYDROLOGY; ICE SHEET; SUBGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; TIMESCALE; WATER FLOW;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; LAKE VOSTOK; ROSS ICE SHELF; WEST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 84911366086     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL061433     Document Type: Article

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