- Title: Highest Weather Station
- Date: 15th January 2020
- Summary:
- Description:Grossglockner mountain, Austria Austria’s highest meteorological station has been installed today at the Grossglockner mountain, at the altitude of 3.454 meters above sea level. The Tyrolean avalanche warning service flight by helicopter to the Adlersruhe peak in the Grossglockner massif to mount the new automatic weather station. The installation was supposed to be done earlier in the winter, but due to numerous damages that had to be fixed before the works were delayed over months. The stormy weather complicated installation work and sublines the necessity of the station. The Grossglockner is Austria’s highest mountain, it measures 3.798 meters and is situated in the Tauern massive at the division of Salzburg, Carinthia and Eastern Tyrol. The second highest meteorological plant lays 25 meters deeper at the Pitztaler Alps. Shotliste: aerials Grossglockner massif - helicopter approach in the winter mountain landscape - Adlersruhe (Eagle’s Rest) peak - helicopter landing - SOUNDBITE (German) Paul Kössler, technical director Avalanche Warning Service Tyrol: “ We measure the wind speed, gusts, wind direction, air temperature and humidity. These parameters are directly transferred every 10 minutes to our server in Innsbruck where the data get prepared.“ - zoom in assembly crew climbing to the installation place - SOUNDBITE (German) Rudi Mair, director Avalanche Warning Service Tyrol: “measure data of the present strong wind are extremely important for us for estimating where the snow will be delivered and what does that mean for the avalanche risk. “ - assembly crew mounting parts of the meteorological station on the top of the Erzherzog Johann Hütte (Archduke Johann Refuge) - SOUNDBITE (German) Paul Kössler, technical director Avalanche Warning Service Tyrol: “Concerning the technical requirements, we actually need connectivity conditions for getting the data to our server in Innsbruck, but this is fine for us, the reception is good here and we have no problems with the data transfer.“ - crew walking back to the helicopter - helicopter flying over the peaks - aerials - SOUNDBITE (German) Paul Kössler, technical director Avalanche Warning Service Tyrol: “Usually we don’t realize such projects in January, normally at the beginning of the winter season all should be ready, but this did not work because we had so many damages to fix that we simply lacked time for finishing.” - overflying high mountain winter landscape
- Broadcaster:ORF
- Collection: ORF
- Genre:News
- Producer:ORF
- Transmission Date:15/01/2020
- Decade: 2020s