SHARE Stelvio- Forni AWS

As regards glaciers, in the park 50 ice bodies are present covering about 40 km2. Among the others, Forni, at 12 km2 of area the largest Italian valley glacier. Its recent changes underlined a strong relation with regional and global climate evolution (Pelfini & Smiraglia, 1997; Smiraglia et al., 2007; Smiraglia et al., 2008); in addition this glacier was also inserted in the GOSITES list (Diolaiuti & Smiraglia, 2010), a list including all the geomorphological systems to be protected due to their high scientific, environmental and aesthetic values.

On Forni Glacier since 2005 has been running the first Italian supraglacial automatic weather station (Citterio et al., 2007). The data collected were useful to model glacier energy and mass exchanges and to describe local micro-meteorology (Diolaiuti at al., 2009; Senese et al., 2010). Not only large glaciers are important for environmental studies; in fact, in the Park also smaller ones revealed important information.

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(2014) . SHARE Stelvio- Forni AWS. https://geoportal.mountaingenius.org/geonetwork/srv/api/records/6161209b-7a6e-46e5-a9fa-f7a182a18cd6

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Date ( Publication ): 2014-07-01

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Purpose: WP 3: atmosphere variability and its relations with climate change; analysis of the atmospheric impacts on cryosphere and hydrosphere.

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Stelvio National Park

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Italy

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Lombardia

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glaciers

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climate change

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fresh waters

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Alps

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Forni

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