Item: Small-Scale Meteorological Conditions at an Avalanche Slope
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Title: Small-Scale Meteorological Conditions at an Avalanche Slope
Proceedings: International Snow Science Workshop Grenoble – Chamonix Mont-Blanc - October 07-11, 2013
Authors:
- Reinhard Fromm [ Austrian Research Centre for Forests (BFW), Innsbruck, Austria ]
- Friedrich Obleitner [ Institute of Meteorology and Geophysics, University of Innsbruck, Austria ]
- Thomas Gigele [ Austrian Research Centre for Forests (BFW), Innsbruck, Austria ]
Date: 2013-10-07
Abstract: The seasonal development of the Alpine snow cover is mainly influenced by terrain features, surface properties, vegetation and atmospheric processes near the (snow) surface. This study is focused on a statistical analysis of meteorological data recorded by automated weather stations, which were located on a NE-facing slope (2000 – 2700 m a.s.l.) in the Tuxer Alps (Western Austria). Air temperature, humidity, incoming longwave radiation, surface temperature, snow depth and wind speed are considered in this analysis. The measured wind data demonstrates that the air flow over the ground is strongly influenced by meso- and micro-scale terrain features. This results in inhomogeneous snow depths. Other atmospheric parameters show a lower spatial variability at the observed slope.
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P4-05.pdf
Language of Article: English
Presenter(s): Unknown
Keywords: micro-meteorology, atmospheric variables, statistical analysis
Page Number(s): 048-051
Subjects: avalanche slope snow depth weather conditions
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