10.5880/fidgeo.2023.037 Department of Geography, University of Innsbruck University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria GFZ Data Services 2024 meteorological stations snow-hydrological measurements Alpine catchment EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > SNOW/ICE EARTH SCIENCE > TERRESTRIAL HYDROSPHERE > SNOW/ICE In Situ/Laboratory Instruments Department of Geography, University of Innsbruck University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria Marke, Thomas Thomas Marke 0000-0003-1700-4115 University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria Rottler, Erwin Erwin Rottler 0000-0003-3072-2189 University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria Strasser, Ulrich Ulrich Strasser 0000-0003-4776-2822 University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria Warscher, Michael University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria 2023-11-01 2015-07-27T13:20:00/2023-08-31T23:50:00 2013-09-03T16:10:00/2023-08-31T23:50:00 2019-10-03T01:10:00/2023-08-31T23:50:00 Dataset 10.1594/PANGAEA.876120 10.5194/essd-10-151-2018 10.5194/essd-16-3579-2024 https://www.lter-austria.at/rofental/ https://deims.org/02ee24e5-d25e-4aa6-b6a2-9d08a12992df https://inarch.usask.ca/science-basins/rofental.php CC BY 4.0 The data comprises time series from three automatic meteorological and snow-hydrological stations situated in the Rofental (1891–3772 m a.s.l., Ötztal Alps, Austria). The stations are situated at 2737, 2805, and 2919 m a.s.l. and include automatic measurements of meteorological (temperature, precipitation, humidity, wind speed, and radiation fluxes) and snow-hydrological variables (snow depth, snow water equivalent, volumetric solid and liquid water content, snow density, layered snow temperature profiles, snow surface temperature, and snow drift).

The data are sampled by fully automatic weather stations (AWS). The data retrieved by the sensors is stored on a logger in 10 min. temporal resolution. The data is continuously transferred by GSM to a server. The data processing consists of transfer of the raw data from the logger to a data server, basic processing steps (e.g., temperature correction long-wave radiation, decumulating precipitation measurements), and a semi-automatic correction for erroneous values.
Version history

1 November 2023: publication of initial version

5 March 2026: release of Version 2.0

Changelog:

- This update reproduces the first version of the time series to August 31, 2023 (unchanged) and extends it for the period from September 1, 2023, to September 30, 2025. The setup of the stations and sensors remains unchanged in the new time period.

- The first version of the data and data description are available in the “previous-versions” subfolder in the data download folder.

- Change of title removing the end year of measurements (from “for 2013-2023” to “since 2013”)

BellaVista (elevation: 2805 m) Latschbloder (elevation: 2919 m) Proviantdepot (elevation: 2737 m)