Description of Data Files

The coordinates used in the data set are based on "Schweizer Landeskoordinaten", a kilometer grid with its reference point at the old astronomical observatory in Bern (coordinates 600.000 / 200.000).

Rock glaciers, Bernese Alps, western Switzerland

• Location: Bernese Alps, western Switzerland
• Time Range: Inventory of rock glaciers: 1992-1994
• File: bernalp.dat
• Columns: Inventory no., elevation of the front [m ASL], length [m], width [m], mean overall slope angle [deg], mean orientation [deg], x-coordinate, y-coordinate, activity, rock glacier type
• File: furggen.gif
• Comments: rockglacier Nr. 3 "Furggentälti", 614'800 / 139'550, photo taken 25. 8.'91, Study site of Department of Geography, University of Bern, Switzerland
• File: obferd.gif
• Comments: rockglacier. Nr. 16 "Oberferden", 621'500 / 138'600, photo taken 29.9.'94
• File: sefine.gif
• Comments: rockglacier Nr. 1 "Sefinenfurgge", 628'575 / 153'230, photo taken 18.8.'91