FIGURE 2.

Mitigation of minimum temperatures with increasing snow depth measured at various depths within the winter snow cover (77 cm deep) and in soil (–10 cm) during the course of three days in January, 2013 at 1950 m on Mt. Patscherkofel. Snow temperature is compared to leaf temperatures recorded for leaves of Rhododendron ferrugineum that were either exposed without snow cover (green solid line) or covered by snow (–16 cm). Inset: Increasing mean temperature (9, 10, and 11 January, 2013) in snow with increasing depth within a snow cover of 77 cm (Buchner and Neuner, unpublished).