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The position of the Alps in the centre European continent has profoundly modified the climate of all the surrounding regions. The accumulation of vast masses of snow, which have gradually been converted into permanent glacierA glacier is a large, long-lasting river of ice that is formed on land and moves in response to gravity. Equivalently, it is a multi-year ice accretion in mountainous terrain. The glacier fringe is the area where the glacier has recently melted. There ares, maintains a gradation of very different climates within the narrow space that intervenes between the foot of the mountains and their upper ridges; it cools the breezes that are wafted to the plainIn geography, a plain is a flat, largely treeless expanse of land. Plains may be more suitable for farming than plateaus or mountains. Famous plains can be found in North America and in Russia. List of famous plains: Australian Plains Indo-Gangetic plains on either side, but its most important function is to regulate the water supplyA water supply system provides water to the locations that need it. This term has several contexts: Municipal water supply system for household and commercial use; Firefighting water supplies; Any water stored for later use. Municipal water supply systems of the large region which is traversed by the streams of the Alps. Nearly all the moisture that is precipitated during six or seven months is stored in the form of snow, and is gradually diffused.