Fig. 1: Updated Antarctic subglacial lake inventory. | Nature Communications

Fig. 1: Updated Antarctic subglacial lake inventory.

From: Detection of 85 new active subglacial lakes in Antarctica from a decade of CryoSat-2 data

Fig. 1

Antarctic subglacial lake inventory, with 85 lakes identified in this study (red triangles). CryoSat-2 SARIn mode data acquisition region (2015) is illustrated around the continent margins (purple shaded area). Existing inventory subglacial lakes are also shown, divided into those derived from satellite studies (pink triangles) and RES surveys (grey circles)16,32. Background image is the CryoSat-2 digital elevation model greyscale virtual hill shade65 separated from ocean bathymetry (blue background)66 by the ice sheet grounding line (solid black line)41,42, overlain with modelled subglacial water routing in blue14. Glacier and Ice Stream names are abbreviated: Jutulstraumen Glacier (JG), Cook Glacier (CG), David Glacier (DG), Institute Ice Stream (IIS) and Recovery Glacier (RG).

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