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Inventory of Subglacial lakes

Point location of known subglacial lakes in both hemispheres.

Citation

This was assembled by D. Keith from following sources.

Wright, A., & Siegert, M. (2012). A fourth inventory of Antarctic subglacial lakes. Antarctic Science, 24(6), 659-664. doi:10.1017/S095410201200048X

Siegert Martin J., Ross Neil and Le Brocq Anne M. Recent advances in understanding Antarctic subglacial lakes and hydrology374Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2014.0306

Palmer, S. J., Dowdeswell, J. A., Christoffersen, P., Young, D. A., Blankenship, D. D., Greenbaum, J. S., Benham, T., Bamber, J., and Siegert, M. J. ( 2013), Greenland subglacial lakes detected by radar, Geophys. Res. Lett., 40, 6154– 6159, doi:10.1002/2013GL058383.

Thór Marteinsson, V., Rúnarsson, Á., Stefánsson, A. et al. Microbial communities in the subglacial waters of the Vatnajökull ice cap, Iceland. ISME J 7, 427–437 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/ismej.2012.97

Livingstone, S., Utting, D., Ruffell, A. et al. Discovery of relict subglacial lakes and their geometry and mechanism of drainage. Nat Commun 7, ncomms11767 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11767

Bowling, J.S., Livingstone, S.J., Sole, A.J. et al. Distribution and dynamics of Greenland subglacial lakes. Nat Commun 10, 2810 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10821-w

Data access

A spreadsheet with the original data from the A fourth inventory of Antarctic subglacial lakes is available at:

The zipfiles were provided directly by D. Keith (pers. comm.).

Data download and preparation

source ~/proyectos/CES/cesdata/env/project-env.sh


DPATH=cryosphere/global
DNAME=subglacial-lakes

mkdir -p $GISDATA/$DPATH/$DNAME/
cd $GISDATA/$DPATH/$DNAME/

## scp /opt/gisdata/inventories/subglacial_lakes/* $zID@kdm.restech.unsw.edu.au:/srv/scratch/cesdata/gisdata/cryosphere/global/subglacial-lakes


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