Time series of temperature and humidity of Site moraine1971 in Obergurgl, Austria (1996 to recent)

It is an alpine glacier valley with a comprehensively studied glacier foreland at an elevation of 2280 to 2450 m a.s.l. with a well-preserved chronosequence, starting at the terminal moraine ridge, dated 1858 (Kaufmann 2001), followed by a glacier retreat of more than 2 km until today. Several studies on primary succession and on the essential drivers of colonization were performed.

At the same time, weather stations have been installed at two glacial moraines in the Rotmoos Valley. The weather station at the glacial moraine of 1971 provides data of air and soil temperatures and relative air humidity since 1996.