Wind screen on the Rhone glacier in Switzerland creates cold air cushion

By constructing a wind screen on the Rhone glacier in Switzerland, cold downwinds, which normally pass unhindered into the valley, can be intercepted and collected, thus creating a cold air cushion at the wind screen and in its close vicinity. 'Our test wind screen set up on the Rhone glacier resulted in a definite cooling of the air near the surface, with the drop in temperature being up to three degrees centigrade,' reported Professor Hans-Joachim Fuchs of the Institute of Geography of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz...

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