Buarbreen

The Buarbreen (often Buer ) is the name of a glacier west of the village of Odda in Norway. He refers to a portion of the Folgefonna. According to the UNESCO classification system is a glacier of the type 434 That is, it has a glacier runoff, a larger mass of ice or ice cap ( 4) with a single Firnfläche (3 ) and with an icefall / Eisstufe (4).

Location

As Buarbreen the part of the Folgefonna is called, the eastward flowing into the Buertal between the two peaks Reinanuten and Nordbakkennuten. He now has three clearly defined, glaciers that flow through a drip line into the valley and then pass into the shape of a valley glacier. The two larger glaciers are called Nedre Buer Buer and Øvre.

The Buarbreen forms one of the 27 hydrologic regions of the Folgevonna. The area located immediately south of the Folgefonna has no name, while the area located immediately north is called Ruklebreen. For all three regions, the water flows into the Sandvinvanten why all three areas in the literature have the same number 048.B1 waters. In the measurement by means of an air photos dated 17 August 1981, the highest point at 1640 meters above sea level and the lowest with 620 m above sea level is specified.

Part of glacier

The three part Glaciers form at altitudes 1300-1400 meters from the accumulation zone of the Buarbreen, thus very close to the equilibrium line, which in 1988 to 1350 MT M has been set.

The Nedre Buerbreen which forms the southernmost of the glacier tongues, extends furthest into the valley. He also has the steepest Eisabbruch, which today flows even at a rock nose. The ice sheets are coherently and form at the foot of a valley glacier proper. When measuring in 1981, the glacier was at 620 m asl, on the map of 2005, approximately 680 m above sea level The Øvre Buerbreen is the mean glacier tongue; he has to overcome not quite such a steep step as the Neder Buerbreen. With its very rugged surface it flows without further large visible Gefällsänderungen the valley. His course overcomes approximately 400 meters and ends thus about 200 meters higher than the Nedere Buerbreen. The Øvre Buerbreen ends on the map of 2005 to about 900 m asl. 's Northernmost glacier tongue is very small and unnamed. It flows about 200 vertical meters into the valley and ends on the map of 2005 at around 1080 meters above sea level. This glacier has almost no water drainage on. The melt water of Øvre Buerbreen flows in a northerly direction to Nedre Buerbreen where it combines almost directly on the glacier with melt water from the Nedere Buerbrenn. Here there is and was always the danger that forms an unstable meltwater during advance of Nedre Buerbrenn. The two outflows unite to Buerelvi flowing through Buertal into Sandvinvanten. From there it passes through the Opo in the Oddafiord and into the sea.