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Month: August 2019

Survey of glacier forefield and first look on runoff data

Survey of glacier forefield and first look on runoff data

On 9 August the first airborne laser scanning survey was performed using a scanning system mounted to a helicopter. The same day fixed position points were established for the upcoming surveys of the glacier tongue and the glacier forefield at Jamtalferner. The first look on the runoff data shows a number of high runoff situations caused by heavy rainfall in addition to glacier melt, but not reaching the peak runoff caused by strong snow melt conditions right after installation of…

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