An automatic weather station (AWS) has been operating in the ablation area on
Midtdalsbreen, a north-easterly outlet glacier of Hardangerjøkulen (Fig. 6-2), since
October 2000. The station (Fig. 6-6) is owned and maintained by the Institute for Marine
and Atmospheric research Utrecht (IMAU),
Utrecht University (contact:
[email protected]). The station records
incoming and outgoing short wave and long
wave radiation, air temperature, relative
humidity, wind speed and direction, air
pressure and distance to the surface.
Sampling is done every few minutes
(depending on the sensor) and 30-minute
averages are stored. The record from this
AWS span almost ten years (1st October
2000 to 24th August 2010) with only two
data gaps; data is missing for 39 days in
summer 2005 and 55 days in spring 2007.
