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Long-term snow and weather observations at Weissfluhjoch and its relation to other high-altitude observatories in the Alps
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Marty, Christoph Meister, Roland |
| Copyright Year | 2012 |
| Abstract | Snow and weather observations at Weissfluhjoch were initiated in 1936, when a research team set a snow stake and started digging snow pits on a plateau located at 2,540 m asl above Davos, Switzerland. This was the beginning of what is now the longest series of daily snow depth, new snow height and bi-monthly snow water equivalent measurements from a high-altitude research station. Our investigations reveal that the snow depth at Weissfluhjoch with regard to the evolution and inter-annual variability represents a good proxy for the entire Swiss Alps. In order to set the snow and weather observations from Weissfluhjoch in a broader context, this paper also shows some comparisons with measurements from five other high-altitude observatories in the European Alps. The results show a surprisingly uniform warming of 0.8°C during the last three decades at the six investigated mountain stations. The long-term snow measurements reveal no change in mid-winter, but decreasing trends (especially since the 1980s) for the solid precipitation ratio, snow fall, snow water equivalent and snow depth during the melt season due to a strong temperature increase of 2.5°C in the spring and summer months of the last three decades. |
| Starting Page | 573 |
| Ending Page | 583 |
| Page Count | 11 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1007/s00704-012-0584-3 |
| Volume Number | 110 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.dora.lib4ri.ch/wsl/islandora/object/wsl:4424/datastream/PDF/Marty-2012-Long-term_snow_and_weather_observations-(published_version).pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-012-0584-3 |
| Journal | Theoretical and Applied Climatology |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
