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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-2971-2016
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-2971-2016
© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Research article
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01 Dec 2016
Research article |
| 01 Dec 2016
Active subglacial lakes and channelized water flow beneath the Kamb Ice Stream
Byeong-Hoon Kim
Department of Earth Science Education, Seoul National University,
Seoul 151-742, South Korea
Choon-Ki Lee
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Unit of Ice Sheet and Sea Level Changes, Korea Polar Research
Institute, Incheon 21990, South Korea
Ki-Weon Seo
Department of Earth Science Education, Seoul National University,
Seoul 151-742, South Korea
Won Sang Lee
Unit of Ice Sheet and Sea Level Changes, Korea Polar Research
Institute, Incheon 21990, South Korea
Polar Sciences, Korea University of Science and Technology, Daejeon
34113, South Korea
Ted Scambos
National Snow and Ice Data Center, University of Colorado, Boulder,
Colorado 80309-0449, USA
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Short summary
Kamb Ice Stream (KIS) in Antarctica ceased rapid ice flow approximately 160 years ago, still influencing on the current mass balance of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. We identify two previously unknown subglacial lakes beneath the stagnated trunk of the KIS. Rapid fill-drain hydrologic events over several months indicate that the lakes are probably connected by a subglacial drainage network. Our findings support previously published conceptual models of the KIS shutdown.
Kamb Ice Stream (KIS) in Antarctica ceased rapid ice flow approximately 160 years ago, still...
