Meteorology

Data is available from a number of automatic weather stations operating in the upper Rofental, as well as from longer term measurement sites, and temporary meteorological installations associated with specific experiments. Most meteorological data will be recorded and updated in the living data repository associated with Earth System Science Data publication on The Rofental: a high Alpine research basin (1890–3770 m a.s.l.) in the Ötztal Alps (Austria) with over 150 years of hydrometeorological and glaciological observations

Totalizing precipitation gauges:

The totalizing rain gauges are operated by the Department of Atmospheric and Cryospheric Sciences of the University of Innsbruck with financial support by the Hydrographic Service of Tyrol. Readings are undertaken every 2 months in summer with a break in winter. These totals are then redistributed to monthly values using data from the weighing rain gauge in Vent.

Vent	1900m	1905 - present	data
Hochjochhospiz	2360m	1952 - present	data
Vernagtbrücke	2600m	1965 - present	data
Proviantdepot	2737m	1952 - present	data
Rofenberg	2827m	1952 - present	data
Latschbloder	2910m	1965 - present	data
Hintereis station	2964m	1952 - present	data
Saykogel	2990m	1963 - 1980	data
Schwarzkögele	3075m	1963 - 1977	data
Guslar	2920m	1964 - 1981	data
Samoar	2650m	1966 - 1974	data
Hintereisalm	2900m	1965 - 1987	data

Further to these totalizing precipitation gauges, in recent years, 5 of the automatic weather stations in the region (see below) have been instrumented with automatic OTT pluviometers.

Automatic weather stations:

The specifications of these automatic weather stations vary, and are detailed in the Earth System Science Data publication on The Rofental: a high Alpine research basin (1890–3770 m a.s.l.) in the Ötztal Alps (Austria) with over 150 years of hydrometeorological and glaciological observations. These data are partially available online, otherwise are available on request via the operating institution.

Vent	1907m	1935 - present	data (1935-2011) data (2012-2016) data (2016-present)	Atmospheric and Cryospheric Sciences, Innsbruck
Station Hintereis	3026m	2010 - present	data	Atmospheric and Cryospheric Sciences, Innsbruck
Im Hintern Eis		2017 - present	data	Atmospheric and Cryospheric Sciences, Innsbruck
Hintereisferner		2014 - present	upon request	Atmospheric and Cryospheric Sciences, Innsbruck
Vernachtbach	2640m	1974 - present	data (2002 - 2012)	Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Munich Live data feed here
Schwartzkögele	3075m	1976 - present		Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Munich
Vernagtferner		2003 - present	data (1968 -1987)	Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Munich
Latschbloder	2919m	2013 - present	data (2013) data (2014) data (2015) data (2016) data (2017)	Geography, Innsbruck AWS website Live data feed here
Bella Vista	2805m	2015 - present	data (2015) data (2016) data (2017)	Geography, Innsbruck AWS website
Teufelsegg	3035m		data	Hydrographic Office of the Civil Protection Agency of the Autonomous Province of Bolzano – South Tyrol
Grawand	3220m		data	Hydrographic Office of the Civil Protection Agency of the Autonomous Province of Bolzano – South Tyrol
Vernagt	1950m		data	Hydrographic Office of the Civil Protection Agency of the Autonomous Province of Bolzano – South Tyrol

Short term projects, dedicated to measuring the surface mass balance of snow and ice on the glacier involved
temporary installations of AWSs on the glaciers of the region:

Obleitner, F. (1994) Climatological features of glacier and valley winds at the Hintereisferner (Ötztal Alps, Austria), Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 49, 225–239.

Historical data:

In addition to these digital automatic weather station, analogue weather records from the historical terminus of Hintereisferner are held by the Department of Atmospheric and Cryospheric Sciences, Innsbruck.