OBJECTIVES FIRN

The novelty of this project lies in the following fundamental points:

•  development of new observation techniques that allow for the proper diagnosis of the state of the atmosphere in mountainous terrain. The challenges to be overcome are to solve the complication of its high spatial variability, which requires a high density of observation points, and the intrinsic difficulties of operation of equipment and people in adverse conditions;
•  development of new chains of specific models for mountain areas to take into account the complexity of the orography and processes;
•  development of new models related to the transformation, movement and transport of snow by wind and other micro-scale processes;
•  obtaining results of very high spatial resolution (hyper-resolution, of the order of meters) that allow to adequately characterize the micro and topographic climates of mountain regions at a high level of detail;
•  analyze the climatic variability of historical mountain series, global teleconnection patterns and the impact of climate change on water resources and biodiversity.