Investigating the surface energy balance over mountain areas
INTERFACE is a collaborative research project between the University of Trento, the University of Innsbruck, and EURAC Research funded by the European Region Tyrol-South Tyrol-Trentino.
INTERFACE aims at evaluating the uncertainties connected to the measurement of the surface energy balance at different sites in the Alpine environment, where processes related to the lack of closure of the surface energy balance are expected to be particularly significant.
The main objectives of the project can be summarized in the following points:
to quantify the imbalance of the surface energy balance at several Alpine sites characterized by different topographic and land cover features, in different seasons and under different meteorological conditions;
to determine a relation between the imbalance of the surface energy balance and the topographic and land cover characteristics of the sites;
to quantify the role of the advection due to local and mesoscale circulations in the non-closure of the surface energy balance at several Alpine sites;
to develop and test an UAV platform for spatially-distributed environmental measurements.
INTERFACE is a partner project of the TEAMx research programme.