Abstract:Abstract. Elevation gradients of meteorological variables in mountains are of interest to a number of scientific disciplines and often required as parameters in modeling frameworks. Measurements of such gradients on glaciers, however, are particularly scarce and strongly skewed towards the mid latitudes and valley glaciers. This article adds a tropical perspective and presents four years of overlapping measurements at 5603 m and 5873 m on Kersten Glacier, Kilimanjaro (East Africa), between 2009 and 2013. Mean … Show more
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