Precipitation measurement in high mountains - Aosta Valley

Precipitation monitoring in remote areas without infrastructure was thought to be impossible in Aosta Valley, Italy. All the more challenging was the task to install a measuring site on the Peak CIMO Blanche with its height of 3000 meters (just shy of 10,000 feet), located near the famous Matterhorn. The measuring site needed to withstand the extreme weather conditions that comes with high altitudes: snow thunderstorms and wind speeds of up to 200 km/h or 125 mph which transports masses of snow, forming heights of 3 - 4 meters. The OTT Pluvio² was chosen to measure precipitation data.

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