MULTI-SCALE CHANGE ANALYSIS OF SEA ICE EXTENT IN ARCTIC

This study focuses on the long-term subglacial hydrological activity of the Recovery Ice Stream in East Antarctica. We update the outlines of reported lakes based on their recent activity and identify 14 new lakes. A 21-year record of elevation changes of these lakes is constructed using multi-mission altimetry data. We also reveal spatial variability in elevation change patterns within several typical individual lakes. Our hydrological network confirms hydraulic connectivity among these lakes.

During the melting season, substantial quantities of surface meltwater converge in topographically depressed regions, forming supraglacial lakes (SGLs). We extract SGLs area and profile depth using remote sensing data, and then inversion the depth of entire SGLs based on machine learning method. By applying above-mentioned methods, we capture the volumetric evolution of SGLs throughout the entire melt season of 2022 in southwestern Greenland.

No subglacial lakes have been reported in Princess Elizabeth Land (PEL), East Antarctica. In this study, thanks to a new suite of airborne geophysical observations in PEL, including RES and gravity data collected during the Chinese National Antarctic Research Expedition, we detected a large subglacial lake of ~45 km in length, ~11 km in width, and ~250 m in depth. These findings will help us understand ice sheet stability in the PEL region.