PERMOS

PERMOS is carried by several research institutions and financially supported by federal partners. The network is managed by the PERMOS Office and supervised by two standing committees... PERMOS is part of the federal structures for monitoring of the cryosphere in the Swiss Alps, which includes glaciers, snow and permafrost. It complements the Glacier Monitoring Switzerland GLAMOS, which was established at the end of the 19th century, and the snow monitoring by WSL-SLF and MeteoSwiss. The Cryospheric Commission (CC) of the Swiss Academy of Sciences (SCNAT) is responsible for their coordination. The Swiss GCOS Office at MeteoSwiss coordinates the long-term climatological observations of so-called Essential Climate Variables (ECVs) in Switzerland... The Swiss Permafrost Monitoring Network documents the state and changes of mountain permafrost in the Swiss Alps. We collect field data on permafrost conditions in the framework of climate monitoring, which are openly available. PERMOS is..

Primary location: Davos Switzerland