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Articles | Volume 15, issue 11
Articles | Volume 15, issue 11
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-5205-2021
© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-5205-2021
© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 15, issue 11
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25 Nov 2021
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Seasonal evolution of Antarctic supraglacial lakes in 2015–2021 and links to environmental controls

Mariel C. Dirscherl, Andreas J. Dietz, and Claudia Kuenzer

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We provide novel insight into the temporal evolution of supraglacial lakes across six major Antarctic ice shelves in 2015–2021. For Antarctic Peninsula ice shelves, we observe extensive meltwater ponding during the 2019–2020 and 2020–2021 summers. Over East Antarctica, lakes were widespread during 2016–2019 and at a minimum in 2020–2021. We investigate environmental controls, revealing lake ponding to be coupled to atmospheric modes, the near-surface climate and the local glaciological setting.
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