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| Abk. | ECSN/HRT-GAR | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Themenbereich | High Resolution Climate Data | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Status | Project closed by 30-06-2008 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ausgangssituation | High resolution climatologies offer a broad spectrum of opportunities for further applications in climate and climate change research. Although this is a well-known fact, up to now a temperature climatology has not existed for the Alpine Region. For precipitation, Frei and Schär, 1998 provided a highly resolved Alpine precipitation climatology based on measurements of some 6000 stations. The Greater Alpine Region (GAR) has been defined as a region lying between 4-19°E and 43-49°N. At continental scale, it constitutes a sharp “climate divide” in the transitional zone between Atlantic, continental and Mediterranean influences. Its complex terrain ranges between sea level and 4,810 m (Mont Blanc)including mountain peaks, small scale valleys, plains and plateaus, cities with urban heat islands, littorals, glaciated and forested areas, and other landscape features. The Alpine station network is one of the densest in the world; its area covers about 700000 km2 encompassing 13 different national and even sub-national special features, which are often inhomogeneous in their observing practices. Some National Weather Services (NMSs) and research institutes already elaborated national as well as regional climatologies (see list of references). When trying to merge them together however, significant discontinuities appear at the borders, due to the mentioned inhomogeneous observation practices. Also spatial analysis methods and underlying geographical information, and temperature features of neighbouring countries usually are not considered by national analyses projects. At the other tail of the spectrum, Meteo France published the ECSN Climate Atlas of Europe on CD in 2004. Based on only 700 stations for the study region, this coarse Atlas provides a more general overview but cannot reproduce any small scale features. Note for example the not existing Alps in Fig.1 Therefore, the project team of ECSN – HRT/GAR aimed to prepare a High Resolution Climatology for the Greater Alpine Region (4-19°E and 43-49°N) for a 30yrs period with a temporal resolution of 1 month and a spatial resolution of 1 km x 1 km. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Methodik | Data and methods have been described in the Final Report | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ergebnisse |  Maps  Data Download | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Projektbeginn | 01.2006 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Projektende | 06.2008 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Projektpartner | EUMETNET MEMBERS: Austria, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Slovenia, Croatia University of Milan Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, Italian National Research Council, Bologna | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Publikationen | Schöner W, Auer I, Böhm R. 2006. First steps towards a new temperature climatology of the Greater Alpine Region (GAR). In: Dobesch H., Dumolard P., Dyras I. (Eds). Spatial Interpolation for Climate Data. The Use of GIS in Climatology and Meteorology, ISTE, ISBN: 9781905209705, 189-197 Hiebl J, Auer I, Böhm R, Schöner W, Maugeri M, Lentini G, Spinoni J, Brunetti M, Nanni T, Percec Tadic M, Bihari Z, Dolinar M, Müller-Westermeier G (2009): A high-resolution 1961–1990 monthly temperature climatology for the greater Alpine region. Meteorologische Zeitschrift, Vol. 18, No. 5, DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2009/0403 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Website | http://www.eumetnet.eu.org |
