Articles | Volume 10, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-2971-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-2971-2016
Research article
 | 
01 Dec 2016
Research article |  | 01 Dec 2016

Active subglacial lakes and channelized water flow beneath the Kamb Ice Stream

Byeong-Hoon Kim, Choon-Ki Lee, Ki-Weon Seo, Won Sang Lee, and Ted Scambos

Download

Interactive discussion

Status: closed
Status: closed
AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment
Printer-friendly Version - Printer-friendly version Supplement - Supplement

Peer-review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision
AR by Anna Mirena Feist-Polner on behalf of the Authors (07 Sep 2016)  Author's response
ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (07 Sep 2016) by Kenichi Matsuoka
RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (24 Oct 2016)
ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (Editor review) (24 Oct 2016) by Kenichi Matsuoka
AR by Choon Ki Lee on behalf of the Authors (03 Nov 2016)  Author's response    Manuscript
ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (10 Nov 2016) by Kenichi Matsuoka
AR by Choon Ki Lee on behalf of the Authors (14 Nov 2016)  Author's response    Manuscript
Download
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.