PIANO: Alpine Foehn Weather Station Data from Innsbruck, 2017

Fall and early winter 2017 data from nine portable MOMAA weather stations operated during the PIANO field campaign in the Inn and Wipp Valleys near Innsbruck, Austria. The dataset was collected by the Innsbruck Atmospheric Observatory to study the erosion of cold air pools and foehn breakthrough events. It comprises seven Intensive Observation Periods, including six south foehn events and one west foehn event.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the temporal evolution of foehn breakthrough events based on multi-station time series.
• Studying cold air pool erosion dynamics based on temperature and wind data from valley floor and slope stations.
• Validating numerical weather prediction models for complex Alpine terrain using high-resolution field campaign data.
• Investigating microclimatic differences between valley floor, slope, and rooftop measurement sites.

Strengths

• Data from nine distinct stations provides spatial coverage across the Inn and Wipp Valleys.
• Covers seven Intensive Observation Periods during specific foehn events in 2017.
• Two stations (M04 and M06) provide extended temporal coverage into February 2018.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Short data gaps occurred in early September 2017, and specific sensor failures are noted for station M07.

Provenance

Source

Innsbruck Atmospheric Observatory (IAO), Universität Innsbruck

Collection Method

Field campaign measurements from portable automatic weather stations.

Time Range

Mid August 2017 to mid December 2017, with two stations operating until February 2018.

Geography

Inn Valley and Wipp Valley near Innsbruck, Austria, including villages Inzing, Volders, Patsch, and specific sites in Innsbruck.