Subglacial lakes and their changing role in a warming climate

SJ Livingstone, Y Li, A Rutishauser… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Subglacial lakes are repositories of ancient climate conditions, provide habitats for life and
modulate ice flow, basal hydrology, biogeochemical fluxes and geomorphic activity. In this …

Trends and connections across the Antarctic cryosphere

A Shepherd, HA Fricker, SL Farrell - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Satellite observations have transformed our understanding of the Antarctic cryosphere. The
continent holds the vast majority of Earth's fresh water, and blankets swathes of the Southern …

The scientific legacy of NASA's Operation IceBridge

JA MacGregor, LN Boisvert, B Medley, AA Petty… - 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)'s Operation IceBridge
(OIB) was a 13‐year (2009–2021) airborne mission to survey land and sea ice across the …

Enhanced trace element mobilization by Earth's ice sheets

JR Hawkings, ML Skidmore… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Trace elements sustain biological productivity, yet the significance of trace element
mobilization and export in subglacial runoff from ice sheets is poorly constrained at present …

Scientific access into Mercer Subglacial Lake: scientific objectives, drilling operations and initial observations

JC Priscu, J Kalin, J Winans, T Campbell… - Annals of …, 2021 - cambridge.org
The Subglacial Antarctic Lakes Scientific Access (SALSA) Project accessed Mercer
Subglacial Lake using environmentally clean hot-water drilling to examine interactions …

Illuminating active subglacial lake processes with ICESat‐2 laser altimetry

MR Siegfried, HA Fricker - Geophysical Research Letters, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Antarctica's basal water system contains more than 130 active lakes, and its evolution
remains a major uncertainty in future ice sheet dynamics. Most of our current understanding …

Mid‐Holocene grounding line retreat and readvance at Whillans Ice Stream, West Antarctica

RA Venturelli, MR Siegfried, KA Roush… - Geophysical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding ice sheet evolution through the geologic past can help constrain ice sheet
models that predict future ice dynamics. Existing geological records of grounding line retreat …

Closing the loops on Southern Ocean dynamics: From the circumpolar current to ice shelves and from bottom mixing to surface waves

LG Bennetts, CJ Shakespeare… - Reviews of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
A holistic review is given of the Southern Ocean dynamic system, in the context of the crucial
role it plays in the global climate and the profound changes it is experiencing. The review …

Constraints on the timing and extent of deglacial grounding line retreat in West Antarctica

RA Venturelli, B Boehman, C Davis… - AGU …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Projections of Antarctica's contribution to future sea level rise are associated with significant
uncertainty, in part because the observational record is too short to capture long‐term …

Antarctic topographic realizations and geostatistical modeling used to map subglacial lakes

EJ MacKie, DM Schroeder, J Caers… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Antarctic subglacial lakes can play an important role in ice sheet dynamics, biology,
geology, and oceanography, but it is difficult to definitively constrain their character and …