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Scott Turnerbreen glacier, Longyearbyen, Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Norwayi
| Regional Level Types | |
|---|---|
| Scott Turnerbreen glacier | Glacier |
| Longyearbyen | Town |
| Spitsbergen | Island |
| Svalbard | Archipelago |
| Norway | Country |
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
78° 6' 23'' North , 15° 57' 8'' East
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):
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Hodgkins (2001):
Scott Turnerbreen is a 3 x 3 km² glacier, of altitude range 230–680 m a.s.l., located in central Spitsbergen (78°06'N, 15°57'E), occupying a catchment of total area 12 x 8 km². With a maximum ice thickness of 76 m, the glacier is entirely non-temperate (Hodgkins et al., 1999), and frozen to its bed.
Meltwater drainage from the glacier is dominated by two ice-marginal channels, the east and west streams, of which the east carries c. 80% of the total discharge. The course of these channels is through ice-cored moraine and stagnant ice at the glacier margins. They are essentially subaerial in character, although in places they flow beneath the glacier margins. Both streams debouch from the glacier margins in the proglacial region, up-valley of a prominent end moraine from which the glacier has retreated since the 1930s. The east stream issues over a proglacial icing, whereas the west stream flows across an area of till before reaching its confluence with the east system inside the end moraine. The proglacial stream below this confluence breaches the end moraine directly before flowing down the main valley train.[…]
The mean monthly air temperature is positive only in July and August, and the mean daily maximum air temperature is positive in these months and also in June: thus, the melt season is typically rather short in this catchment.
Meltwater drainage from the glacier is dominated by two ice-marginal channels, the east and west streams, of which the east carries c. 80% of the total discharge. The course of these channels is through ice-cored moraine and stagnant ice at the glacier margins. They are essentially subaerial in character, although in places they flow beneath the glacier margins. Both streams debouch from the glacier margins in the proglacial region, up-valley of a prominent end moraine from which the glacier has retreated since the 1930s. The east stream issues over a proglacial icing, whereas the west stream flows across an area of till before reaching its confluence with the east system inside the end moraine. The proglacial stream below this confluence breaches the end moraine directly before flowing down the main valley train.[…]
The mean monthly air temperature is positive only in July and August, and the mean daily maximum air temperature is positive in these months and also in June: thus, the melt season is typically rather short in this catchment.
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