2011 - Bassiès

In October 2011 we set up a snow and weather automatic station in the Bassiès area (Vicdessos, French Pyrenees). The station was installed as part of the OHM Haut-Vicdessos (Observatoire Homme Milieu) and the Fluxpyr project, a collaboration between the CESBIO and GEODE laboratories.

With this station we aimed at monitoring snow and climate in the Bassiès area. The station data in conjunction with other data (terrestrial and satellite imagery) is used to a provide better understanding of the spatio-temporal influence of snow on the local hydrology.

The station operated between 2011 and 2014 but there are large data gaps due to exceptional winter snowfalls in 2012/13 and 2013/14 winters.

Every 30-min the station recorded:

- air temperature

- air humidity

- wind speed

- wind direction

- snow depth

- top soil moisture

- incoming longwave radiation

- outgoing longwave radiation

- incoming shortwave radiation

- outgoing shortwave radiation

The datalogger was connected to a radio modem, which sent the data to a second station equipped with a GPRS modem (GPRS is not available at the station location). Every day the data were transmitted along with a low resolution digital photography taken from the station mast.

Station visit Nov. 2011

Publication

Szczypta C, Gascoin S, Houet T, Hagolle O, Dejoux J-F, Vigneau C, Fanise, P. (2015) Impact of climate and land cover changes on snow cover in a small Pyrenean catchment, J. Hydrol., 521, doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2014.11.060