The three-year project FuSE-AT has recently been completed. For the first time, it produced detailed regional data on snow conditions — past and future — for the entire area of Austria.

In FuSE-AT, ZAMG (lead), the University of Innsbruck, Climate Change Centre Austria and the Schneezentrum Tirol created datasets on the development of snow conditions since 1961 as well as for three different climate scenarios up to the year 2100.

The project "Future Snow Cover Evolution in Austria, FuSE-AT", funded by the Climate and Energy Fund as part of the Austrian Climate Research Program (ACRP), kicked off in 2018. The results are available as an extension of the official Austrian climate scenarios for research and applications via the CCCA Data Centre. For the first time in Austria, they include an area-wide representation of snow cover development from 1961 to the present, along with three different future scenarios building on this data.

The data is available on a 1x1 kilometre grid, corresponding to around 84,000 data points across Austria. In addition to snow depths, it includes many key indicators important for winter tourism, such as snow cover duration and the potential for artificial snowmaking.

Find out more at zamg.ac.at or on the project website: https://fuse-at.ccca.ac.at/

Also check out the report "Klimakrise beeinflusst Schneelage deutlich" on oesterreich.orf.at!