Antarctic lake suddenly disappears

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JUNE 25, 2021

by University of California – San Diego

https://phys.org/news/2021-06-antarctic-lake-suddenly.html?fbclid=IwAR1uyHwiwLFynLKtvVC-fLDUL2gUDcp6MHew7B9OHZ30oN0QnQpSN4oiu6Q

<img src=”https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/800a/2021/antarctic-lake-suddenl.jpg” alt=”Antarctic lake suddenly disappears” title=”Landsat 8 images over the Southern Amery Ice Shelf show the ice-covered lake before drainage and the resulting ice doline with summer meltwater. Credit: <i>Geophysical Research Letters
Landsat 8 images over the Southern Amery Ice Shelf show the ice-covered lake before drainage and the resulting ice doline with summer meltwater. Credit:Geophysical Research Letters

A global team of scientists including several from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego discovered the sudden demise of a large, deep, ice-covered lake on the surface of an Antarctic ice shelf.https://bce2d4334d30033b51e2fcf07a96fa6c.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-38/html/container.html

This rare event, chronicled in a study published today in the journalGeophysical Research Letters, occurred during the 2019 Antarctic winter on Amery Ice Shelf in East Antarctica, and it is estimated that 600-750 million cubic meters (21-26 billion cubic feet)…

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