Longyearbyen Physical Environment in Diagrams
Click on active points (circles) on the picture below to obtain information on meteorological and other parameters at various sites in the landscape around Longyearbyen. Yellow circles indicate meteorological observations, blue indicate hydrometric observations and red indicate automatic digital pictures. After viewing diagrams, please press the 'back' button on upper navigation panel on your browser to get back to this page.
Photo by Hanne H. Christiansen
Want to know more about this monitoring scheme? Then please click here.
Physical Geography research projects at UNIS:
Monitoring Surface Climate around Longyearbyen, Svalbard
Monitoring Active Layer Thickness and Temperatures; a CALM-project
Isotopic Composition of Modern Precipitation in Longyearbyen, Svalbard
The Climatic and Palaeoclimatic Significance of Rock Glaciers
Snow Avalanche Activity in Central Spitsbergen, Past and Present
Holocene Geomorphic Activity in Coastal Greenland at Glacier Equilibrium Line Altitudes
Linking Land and Sea at the Faroe Islands: Mapping and Understanding North Atlantic Changes (LINK)
Antarctic temperature changes during the observational period
A Handbook on Periglacial Field Methods
Physical Geography courses at UNIS:
AG-204: The Physical Geography of Svalbard
AG-324: Glacial and Periglacial Processes
AG 327: Holocene and recent climate changes in the high arctic Svalbard landscape
Another useful link:
A Geographical-Historical Outline of Svalbard
Latest update: 18. October 2005.