It has just been installed on the edge of the Roche Grande Integral Reserve, a sanctuary preserved from any "human intervention or activity" created last year on the territory of the municipality of Entraunes (Alpes-Maritimes).
A weather station that will be used to "improve a lot of scientific knowledge on climate change in the mountains" has been in service for a few days, announced the Mercantour National Park on Wednesday.
The installation was sized to "measure the height of snow, precipitation, temperature, humidity, wind and solar radiation, at an altitude of 1,932 m", indicates the public establishment.
The evolution of environments correlated to climate change?
And it should make it possible to "correlate the evolutions of the climate and the natural environments" on this site "of free evolution" where "there is no human intrusion, no logging, no pastoralism", specifies Clémentine Dentz, head of the Haut-Var/Cians territorial service at the Mercantour national park.
To put it plainly: “The environment will evolve, is this correlated to climate change?
“, she explains.
The data, planned to be collected over the long term, is transmitted in real time and made freely available on the website of the Infoclimat association, partner of the operation with the House of Weather and Climate of the Southern Alps. .
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