SHARE (Stations at High Altitude for Research on the Environment) Network

The Forni Automatic Weather Station has been installed on Forni Glacier on September 26, 2005 at 2669 m asl. This station represents the first Italian permanent above glacial AWS, that supply a big number of information about micro-meteorological conditions on surface of an Italian Alpine glacier.
In particular, this station is located in the Glacial Ablation area and permits to measure both the winter accumulation and the thermal conditions and in-coming/out-coming energetic fluxes that rules the losses of glacial masses during the summer period.

Geographical coordinates:
- Latitude: 46deg 23' 56.0'' N
- Longitude: 10deg 35' 25.2'' E
The Forni station records every 30 and 60 minutes several meteorological parameters:
- air temperature (degC)
- relative humidity (%)
- wind speed (m/s)
- wind direction (degreedeg)
- atmospheric pressure (hPa)
- incoming and reflected solar radiation (W/m2)
- total precipitation (mm)
- snow depth (m)