Initial results from the Automatic Weather Station (AWS) on the ablation tongue of Forni Glacier (Upper Valtellina, Italy)

Geografia Fisica e Dinamica Quaternaria

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 141-151

  Citterio, Michele ^a,b   Diolaiuti, Guglielmina ^a   Smiraglia, Claudio ^a   Verza, Gianpietro ^c   Meraldi, Eraldo ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d ARPA Lombardia Centra Nivometeorologico di Bormio (SO)   (Italy)

Author keywords

Automatic Weather Station (AWS); Forni Glacier; Glacier boundary layer; Italy

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; GLACIER; SENSOR; SOLAR RADIATION; WEATHER STATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FORNI VALLEY; ITALY; LOMBARDY; SONDRIO; SOUTHERN EUROPE; VALTELLINA;

EID: 55849148484     PISSN: 03919838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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