East Antarctica is supposed to be different. It is extremely
remote and cold. It doesn't see such warm temperatures in the summer - yet -
and so its ice tends to remain more pristine.
"Many people refer to East Antarctica as being too cold
for significant melt," says Jan Lenaerts, a glaciologist with the Utrecht
University in the Netherlands. "I mean there's marginal melt in summer,
but there's not a lot."
That's the common wisdom, at least, but it is challenged in
a new study in Nature Climate Change, by Lenaerts and his colleagues from
universities in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. They do so based on
research they conducted atop the very large Roi Baudouin ice shelf in East
Antarctica, which floats atop the ocean, and where they found a very
Greenland-like situation in early 2016.
Read Chris Mooney’s story in The Sydney Morning Herald - “This stunning Antarctic lake is buried in ice. And that could be bad news.”
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