Selected examples of photos obtained by the automatic camera CAM19 since September 2000

A project funded by the University Courses on Svalbard (UNIS) 2000-2005.

This series of photos was selected from a larger database containing daily exposures. The direction of viewing is towards SSW. The ca. 3.5 km long glacier Larsbreen is seen in the central part of the picture,  flowing towards N and NE. The debris covered lower part of the glacier terminates at about 280 m asl., while the mountain Trollsteinen rises to 849 m asl. in the uppermost left corner. In the lower part of the picture a complex of talus-derived rock glaciers flowing from the talus sheet to the left was pushed up in three ridges by the Little Ice Age advance of Larsbreen, culminating around AD 1920. In the upper right corner part of the accumulation area of Longyearbreen (CAM12) is seen.

This series of photos makes a monitoring feasible of various terrain characteristics such as, e.g., the daily distribution of snow on the glacier, release and transport of supraglacial debris, avalanche activity on the surrounding slopes, etc.

Date of exposure is given below each photo. All photos are displayed in reduced resolution compared to the original exposure.

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