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

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

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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

Department of Earth Science "Ardito Desio", University of Milan - Guglielmina Diolaiuti ( )

Via Mangiagalli 34 Milan MI 20133 Italy

+39 02-50315510

+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

Use limitation: Data Sharing and Publication Policy at DISTRIBUTION SECTION

Access constraints: Intellectual property rights

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Spatial representation type: Vector

Character set: UTF8

Topic category

Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
Geoscientific information
Environment

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

Topology level: Geometry only

Geometric object type: Point

Geometric object count: 13

OnLine resource: gn:share_station
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Hierarchy level: Series

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.