The Barents Sea Ice Sheet (BSIS) is a good palaeo-analogue to the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS), and understanding the key processes occurring during the deglaciation of the BSIS can yield important insights into the drivers and response of marine-based ice sheets to climatic changes. This is important since marine-based ice sheets, such as the BSIS and WAIS, are particularly vulnerable to oceanic ...

Subglacial hydrology modulates how ice sheets flow, respond to climate, and deliver meltwater, sediment and nutrients to proglacial and marine environments. Here, we investigate the development of subglacial lakes and drainage networks beneath the Fennoscandian and Barents Sea ice sheets over the Late Weichselian. Utilizing an established coupled climate/ice flow model, we calculate high-resolution, ...