Figures & data
Figure 1 (a) Location of the Indren glacier in the Northwestern Alps. (b) Location of the study site. The triangle shows the position of the study plots of winter 2002–2003, the circle the position of that of winter 2005–2006. Aut. n. 1072.
Table 1 Dates of periodical snow profiles in seasons 2002–2003 and 2005–2006.
Figure 2 Snow depth measured from the automatic nivo-meteorological station of Gabiet (2379 m a.s.l.).
Table 2 Snow cover characteristics for seasons 2002–2003 and 2005–2006. Except for the max snow depth, the values are mean values. (*) measurements from data loggers from 18 January to isothermal conditions.
Figure 3 (a) Evolution of the temperature at the snow/ice interface in 2002–2003 for the natural density plot, NDP (black line). The gray line shows the air temperature registered at the automatic station of Gabiet (2379 m a.s.l.) in the same period and the black dots the snow depth measured during the field surveys. The pattern of the interface temperature for the IDP was similar except for the last month before isothermal condition. (b) Zoom on the period 1 April–7 May 2003. The black line refers to the NDP and the dashed black one to the IDP.
Figure 4 Evolution of the temperature at the snow/ice interface in 2005–2006 (black line). The gray line shows the air temperature registered at the automatic station of Gabiet (2379 m a.s.l.) in the same period and the black dots the snow depth measured during the field surveys.
