Original scientific paper
THE NEW CENTENNIAL SNOW INITIATIVE FOR THE GREATER ALPINE REGION (GAR). STATUS REPORT AND FIRST RESULTS
Anita Jurković
; ZAMG-Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics, Vienna, Austria
Ingeborg Auer
; ZAMG-Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics, Vienna, Austria
Reinhard Böhm
; ZAMG-Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics, Vienna, Austria
Sophie Debit
; ZAMG-Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics, Vienna, Austria
Alexander Orlik
; ZAMG-Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics, Vienna, Austria
Wolfgang Schöner
; ZAMG-Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics, Vienna, Austria
Abstract
Snow is a significant element in the climate system and has great impact on ecosystem and economy in the Alps, too. Astonishingly there is still a strong gap between the data potential and the data availability. Caused by the existing deficits we started a digitising, quality evaluation, homogenising and analysing initiative for the Alpine region. For the first time we can present a 21-year (1895-1915) daily, high density dataset that was electronically scanned from historic hydro-yearbooks for recent Austria and
additional some surrounding regions in Italy, Slovenia, Croatia and Czech Republic. We hope that our snow initiative will grow to a pan-alpine effort to fill the existing lack of information.
Keywords
snow initiative; daily data; greater alpine region; high density dataset
Hrčak ID:
64793
URI
Publication date:
15.12.2005.
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