Desert in the snow around Sonnblick
Eroded Saharan dust (SD) is episodically transported over thousands of kilometers with synoptic wind patterns towards Europe and reaches Austria several days per year. The…
Glacier melt close to record high
The dry and extreme warm summer months have severely eroded the glaciers in the Austrian Alps. Despite the above average snowpack in winter in the…
Automatic weather Station Pasterze
The automatic weather station (AWS) was built up in October 2012 on Pasterze Glacier. The following measurements were recorded on this site: air temperature at…
Automatic Weather Station Kleinfleißkees
The Automatic Weather Station (AWS) was built up in January 2011 on Kleinfleißkees/Sonnbick. The following measurements were recorded on this site: air temperature, humidity, wind…
Winter 2017/18: Largest amount of snow for Sonnblick glaciers over the last 20 years
Kleinfleißkees and Goldbergkees got 25 % more snow than in an average winter. For determination of snow depth, 560 measurements with snow probes were carried…
Glaciological station network Pasterze
In cooperation with foto-webcam.eu, University of Graz, Großglockner Hochalpenstraße AG and TGM, a glaciological station network was established. In total 5 cameras, one automatic weather…
Above normal accumulation rates in Eastern Greenland
The snow cover on Freya Glacier is usually 2 Meters thick in late winter. Repeated heavy snowfall events in February 2018 accumulated a snowheight of…
Extreme glacier mass loss in 2017
The Glaciers in Hohe Tauern National Park experienced another year of extreme negative mass balance in the budget year 2016/2017.
Field trip to Pasterze by TGM and ZAMG
After some attempts in previous years, again we agreed on a date and finally the weather was perfect for a joint field trip to Pasterze…
Winter 2016/17: 10 % less mass of snow than average
Less mass of snow, but average snow depth. Due to snowfall events in April, the relative fresh snow was not packed than normal in May.…
New webcam on Goldbergkees
The camera is located on the ridge between the alpine hut Rojacherhütte and the summit of Hohen Sonnblick at 2932 m a.s.l.. The direction of…
Long-term study at Sonnblick glaciers: explicit reduction of air pollutants in the snowpack
A study from ZAMG, TU Wien, University of Graz and IIASA showed a distinct reduction of Sulfate and Nitrate ion deposition in snowpack samples over…
New webcams and weather station on Freya Glacier!
Within the combined research and education project Glacio-Live we were aiming to install our automatic glacier measurement system far away north in the Arctic, on…
Massive glacier melt in 2015
After a pleasant winter with 5 % more snow accumulation than average, the second warmest summer in history of temperature measurements and the driest summer…
New webcam on Pasterze at Freiwandeck
This camera is funded by Großglockern Hochalpenstraße AG. The camera is located at Freiwandeck (2755 m a.s.l.). The direction of view is west to Großglockner…
Snow accumulation in winter 2014/15 slightly above average
Due to more than 700 measurements of snow depth and 9 snow pits, where density and temperature of the snowpack was measured, the winter mass…
Goldbergkees – History
The Goldbergkees (formally known as Vogelmaier – Ochsenkarkees), situated in the Austrian alps (Hohe Tauern), is now divided in three parts. The upper part is…
Kleinfleißkees – History
The Kleinfleißkees, with a total area of 0.79 km² (2015), is situated in the Hohe Tauern as part of the Austrian alps. The glacier covers…
Pasterze – History
Austria’s most popular glacier at the foot of Großglockner – Austria’s highest mountain. Pasterze is the largest part of a combined mountain glacier system in…
Freya Glacier – History
Freya (Fröya) Glacier is a 6km long valley glacier situated on Clavering Island 10km southeast of the Zackenberg research station at the northeastern coast of…
New webcam on Kleinfleißkees
The camera is situated on a ridge between the mountains Goldberspitze and Roten Mann at 2970 m a.s.l.. The direction of view is northeast with…