Mt. Bianco – Osram (Gigante Glacier, Italy)

The third Italian permanent automatic weather station has been installed on December 17, 2007 on Gigante Glacier ( Mt. Bianco’s group). Data collected by this station permit to improve knowledge both on local micro-meteorological parameters and on periglacial and glacial conditions.

Moreover, this station located at 3430 m asl permits to collect data on above glacial thermal conditions and incoming and outcoming energetic fluxes.

Data collected by this station can be compared to the AWSs installed on Forni and Dosdè glaciers.

Geographical coordinates:

- Latitude: 45° 50' 50"

- Longitude: 06° 55' 58"

 
Citation proposal
(2011) . Mt. Bianco – Osram (Gigante Glacier, Italy). https://geoportal.mountaingenius.org/geonetwork/srv/api/records/e3d7c144-64e3-4df7-9d62-68d09cabc70d
 

Identification

Data identification

Citation

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

Bianco AWS provides data (with a 60 minute time resolution) of the following parameters:

- air temperature (°C)

- relative humidity (%)

- atmospheric pressure (hPa)

- snow depth (m)

- incoming shortwave radiation (W/m2)

- outcoming shortwave radiation (W/m2)

- incoming longwave radiation (W/m2)

- outcoming longwave radiation (W/m2)

Status
Completed

  Point of contact

  +39 02-50315494 
Website
http://www.evk2cnr.org/  
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
Keywords ( Theme )
  • SHARE , network , NEXTDATA
Keywords ( Place )
  • Mt. Bianco, Gigante Glacier, Alps, Italy
GEMET themes ( Theme )
  • glacier, cryosphere, micro-meteorological parameters , natural areas, landscape, ecosystems , research

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Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
  • Geoscientific information
  • Environment
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gn:share_station  

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Statement

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.

 

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Geometric objects

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Geometric object count
13
 

Ref. system

Reference system identifier
EPSG / WGS 84 (EPSG:4326) / 7.4
 

Metadata

Metadata

File identifier
e3d7c144-64e3-4df7-9d62-68d09cabc70d   XML
Metadata language
eng
Character set
UTF8
Parent identifier
64f00741-0a95-4da1-bad0-943ba71164df
Hierarchy level
Series
Hierarchy level name
Date stamp
2025-02-21T16:41:00
Metadata standard name
ISO 19115:2003/19139
Metadata standard version
1.0

  Point of contact

  +39 035 3230551 
Website
http://www.evk2cnr.org  
Dataset URI
 
 

Md. constraints

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No conditions apply
 

Md. maintenance

Maintenance information

Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
Update scope
Series
Maintenance note

  Point of contact

  +39 035 3230551 
Website
http://www.evk2cnr.org  
 

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