Forni (Forni Glacier, Italy)

The Forni Automatic Weather Station has been installed on Forni Glacier on September 26, 2005 at 2669 m asl. This station represents the first Italian permanent above glacial AWS, that supply a big number of information about micro-meteorological conditions on surface of an Italian Alpine glacier.

In particular, this station is located in the Glacial Ablation area and permits to measure both the winter accumulation and the thermal conditions and in-coming/out-coming energetic fluxes that rules the losses of glacial masses during the summer period.

Geographical coordinates:

- Latitude: 46° 23’ 56.0” N

- Longitude: 10° 35’ 25.2” E

 
Citation proposal
(2011) . Forni (Forni Glacier, Italy). https://geoportal.mountaingenius.org/geonetwork/srv/api/records/66ca0e30-45bc-445b-82ee-69bb0fc5280c
 

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66ca0e30-45bc-445b-82ee-69bb0fc5280c   XML
Hierarchy level
Series
Online resource
Protocol
OGC:WMS-1.1.1-http-get-map
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GLG:KML-2.0-http-get-map
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code
WGS 84 (EPSG:4326)
 

Classification of data and services

Topic category
  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
  • Geoscientific information
  • Environment
 

Classification of data and services

Coupled resource
Coupled resource
 
 

Classification of data and services

Coupled resource
Coupled resource
 
 

Keywords

GEMET themes ( Theme )
  • glacier, cryosphere, micro-meteorological parameters , climate , natural areas, landscape, ecosystems , research
Other keywords
Keywords ( Theme )
  • SHARE , network ,
Keywords ( Place )
  • Forni Glacier, Ortles-Cevedale group , Stelvio National Park, Alps, Italy
 
 

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Date ( Publication )
2011-04-12T19:08:00
 

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The automatic weather stations (AWS) for monitor meteorological conditions are currently included in the SHARE network.

An automatic weather station (AWS) is defined as a “meteorological station at which observations are made and transmitted automatically” (WMO, 1992a).

In particular, in the framework of the SHARE project for all parameters, the data has been visually checked, looking for extremely and unusual low/high values and/or periods with constant values.

The AWS on Forni Glacier is a reference site in CEOP (Coordinated Energy and water Cycle Observation Project) under the WMO's initiative World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) - Global Energy and Water cycles Experiment (GEWEX).

 

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Responsible organization (s)

Contact for the resource
Organisation name
Department of Earth Science "Ardito Desio"
Email
guglielmina.diolaiuti@unimi.it
 

Responsible organization (s)

Contact for the resource
Organisation name
Department of Earth Science "Ardito Desio"
Email
guglielmina.diolaiuti@unimi.it
 

Metadata information

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Ev-K2-CNR
Email
metadata@evk2cnr.org
Date stamp
2025-02-21T16:37:19
Metadata language
eng
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UTF8
 
 

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Limitation
 
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Conformance class 3: harmonized

 
 

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