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 …

Modelling water flow under glaciers and ice sheets

GE Flowers - Proceedings of the Royal Society A …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Recent observations of dynamic water systems beneath the Greenland and Antarctic ice
sheets have sparked renewed interest in modelling subglacial drainage. The foundations of …

Potential subglacial lakes and meltwater drainage pathways beneath the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets

SJ Livingstone, CD Clark, J Woodward… - The …, 2013 - eprints.whiterose.ac.uk
We use the Shreve hydraulic potential equation as a simplified approach to investigate
potential subglacial lake locations and meltwater drainage pathways beneath the Antarctic …

Tidewater-glacier response to supraglacial lake drainage

LA Stevens, M Nettles, JL Davis, TT Creyts… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The flow speed of the Greenland Ice Sheet changes dramatically in inland regions when
surface meltwater drains to the bed. But ice-sheet discharge to the ocean is dominated by …

Progressive increase in number and volume of ice-marginal lakes on the western margin of the Greenland Ice Sheet

JL Carrivick, DJ Quincey - Global and Planetary Change, 2014 - Elsevier
The evolution in number, area and volume of ice-marginal lakes in western Greenland is
very poorly documented or understood. It is important to understand ice-marginal lake …

Surging of a Hudson Strait-scale ice stream: subglacial hydrology matters but the process details mostly do not

M Drew, L Tarasov - The Cryosphere, 2023 - tc.copernicus.org
While subglacial hydrology is known to play a role in glacial dynamics on sub-annual to
decadal scales, it remains unclear whether subglacial hydrology plays a critical role in ice …

A decade of progress in observing and modelling Antarctic subglacial water systems

HA Fricker, MR Siegfried… - … Transactions of the …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
In the decade since the discovery of active Antarctic subglacial water systems by detection of
subtle surface displacements, much progress has been made in our understanding of these …

Modelling channelized surface drainage of supraglacial lakes

J Kingslake, F Ng, A Sole - Journal of Glaciology, 2015 - cambridge.org
Supraglacial lakes can drain to the bed of ice sheets, affecting ice dynamics, or over their
surface, relocating surface water. Focusing on surface drainage, we first discuss …

Antarctic subglacial lakes drain through sediment-floored canals: theory and model testing on real and idealized domains

SP Carter, HA Fricker, MR Siegfried - The Cryosphere, 2017 - tc.copernicus.org
Over the past decade, satellite observations of ice surface height have revealed that active
subglacial lake systems are widespread under the Antarctic Ice Sheet, including the ice …

Oscillatory subglacial drainage in the absence of surface melt

C Schoof, CA Rada, NJ Wilson, GE Flowers… - The …, 2014 - tc.copernicus.org
The presence of strong diurnal cycling in basal water pressure records obtained during the
melt season is well established for many glaciers. The behaviour of the drainage system …