Die geländeklimatische Bedeutung des Bergschattens und der Exposition für das Gefüge der Natur- und Kulturlandschaft

Abstract: Taking as a starting point the studies of K. Peucker (1897), F. Huttenlocher (1923), A. Garnett (1935, 1937) and others, the paper attempts to evaluate the importance of mountain shadow for the differentiation of the cultural landscape within high mountains. In addition to the factors latitude, altitude, aspect and degree of slope, which normally determine the total amount of potential insolation per unit area, there is in high mountains the mountain shadow which is particularly extensive in west-east running valleys. Adapting A. Garnett's method, a shadow map of an Alpine valley (Paznaun valley, Tirol) on a scale of 1 : 50,000 was constructed by graphical means. It shows for this south-west north-east running valley the number of days of the year when valley flanks or parts thereof lie in mountain shadow at 12 noon. In order to ascertain the diurnal and annual course of increase and decrease of the shadow, measurements of duration of insolation and shadow conditions were carried o.... https://www.erdkunde.uni-bonn.de/article/view/1490

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• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Die geländeklimatische Bedeutung des Bergschattens und der Exposition für das Gefüge der Natur- und Kulturlandschaft ; volume:20 ; number:2 ; year:1966 ; Erdkunde ; 20, Heft 2 (1966)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Böhm, Hans

Further information

• DOI: 10.3112/erdkunde.1966.02.01
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2410291149396.075545809095
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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