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Articles | Volume 11, issue 3
Articles | Volume 11, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-11-653-2020
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https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-11-653-2020
© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 11, issue 3
Research article
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30 Jul 2020
Research article |  | 30 Jul 2020

Mesoscale atmospheric circulation controls of local meteorological elevation gradients on Kersten Glacier near Kilimanjaro summit

Thomas Mölg, Douglas R. Hardy, Emily Collier, Elena Kropač, Christina Schmid, Nicolas J. Cullen, Georg Kaser, Rainer Prinz, and Michael Winkler

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The glaciers on Kilimanjaro summit are like sample spots of the climate in the tropical mid-troposphere. Measurements of air temperature, air humidity, and precipitation with automated weather stations show that the differences in these meteorological elements between two altitudes (~ 5600 and ~ 5900 m) vary significantly over the day and the seasons, in concert with airflow dynamics around the mountain. Knowledge of these variations will improve atmosphere and cryosphere models.
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