Selected examples of photos obtained by the automatic camera CAM23 since May 2002

A project funded by the University Courses on Svalbard (UNIS) 2001-2005.

This series of photos was selected from a larger database containing daily exposures. The direction of viewing is towards NE, looking across the talus sheet lining the headwall above lover Larsbreen glacier, SE of Longyearbyen.  From the talus sheet a series of talus-derived rockglaciers flow toward the valley axis (left in picture), nourished by a mixture of avalanche snow and rock debris. 

This series of photos makes a monitoring feasible of various terrain characteristics such as, e.g., the daily distribution of snow, snow avalanches, rock fall activity and the slow melting of the debris-snow mixture during the summer. In this way, these exposures will contribute towards better understanding on the origin of ice within talus-derived rock glaciers.

The pictures shown below is representing a detail of the pictures taken by CAM22.

A meteorological station is operated on top of the mountain plateau above the talus sheet, measuring air temperatures, wind speed and -direction, and relative air humidity. The station is located in the right-hand part of the picture. Click here for data from this station.

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

Would you like to see what temperature conditions in the area was like at the time of the individual exposures ? If yes, please click here.

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