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The results of a detailed hydrological study of the Larsemann Hills Oases (East Antarctica) during field seasons of 2017 to 2019 are presented. The study investigates a variety of lakes’ hydrological regime and the characteristics of outburst floods resulting from the lakes’ water flowing through tunnels in the snow-ice dams. The hydrographs calculated by the mathematical modeling do not generally contradict the physical essence of the process of outburst flood formation.
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The authors would like to thank V.I. Kashkevich, N.E. Romanova, and A.L. Borisik from Geofizpoisk; M.P. Kashkevich, S.V. Tyurin, A.M. Belov, and K.V. Titov from St. Petersburg University (SPbU) for the equipment provision and assistance in the preparation for field studies as well as S.D. Grigor’eva and A.A. Sukhanova for assistance in the studies; A.V. Mirakin and G.A. Deshevykh from Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI) and other involved people who supported our fieldwork.
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The research was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (No. 18-05-00421).
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Russian Text © The Author(s), 2020, published in Meteorologiya i Gidrologiya, 2020, No. 2, pp. 94–102.
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Pryakhina, G.V., Boronina, A.S., Popov, S.V. et al. Hydrological Studies of Lake Outbursts in the Antarctic Oases. Russ. Meteorol. Hydrol. 45, 118–123 (2020). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1068373920020077
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