Urdukas meteorological parameters

The Baltoro Glacier, 62 km long, is one of the longest glaciers outside of the Polar Regions. It is located in Baltistan, in the Northern Areas of Pakistan, and runs through part of the Karakoram mountain range. In the middle of the Baltoro glacier there is the campsite of Urdukas located on the trek way to Concordia. This automatic weather station was installed, in June 17, 2004 on the Baltoro Glacier, more precisely on a moraine ridge close to the left glacier margin at 3926 m asl.
 
Citation proposal
(2011) . Urdukas meteorological parameters. https://geoportal.mountaingenius.org/geonetwork/srv/api/records/2e5995fa-bc01-480f-9083-1cfc1d217516
 

Identification

Data identification

Citation

Date ( Publication )
2011-03-30T17:51:00
Purpose

The Urdukas AWS provides data (with a 60 minute time resolution of the following parameters:

- air temperature (°C)

- atmopherich pressure (hPa)

- relative humidity (%)

- total precipitation (mm)

- global solar radiation (W/m2)

- wind speed (m/s)

- wind direction (degree)

Status
Completed

  Point of contact

  +39 035 3230551 
Website
http://www.evk2cnr.org/  
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
GEMET ( Theme )
  • thermal power plant
Keywords
  • SHARE , Network , Station , High Altitude
Keywords ( Place )
  • Urdukas , Pakistan , Baltoro Glacier

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Metadata language
eng
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
  • Geoscientific information
  • Environment
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Quality

Data quality

Hierarchy level
Series
Statement

The automatic weather stations (AWS) for monitoring meteorological conditions are currently included in the SHARE network.

An automatic weather station is defined as a "meteorological station at which observations are made and trasmitted automatically" (WMO, 1992 a).

In particular, in the framework of the SHARE project for all parameters, the data has been visually checked, looking for extremely and unusual low/high values and/or periods with constant values.

The AWS in Urdukas is a reference station in CEOP (Coordinated Energy and water cycle Observation Project) under the WMO's initiative World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) - Global Energy and Water cycles EXperiment (GEWEX).

 

Spatial rep.

Vector spatial representation

Topology level
Geometry only

Geometric objects

Geometric object type
Point
Geometric object count
13
 

Ref. system

Reference system identifier
EPSG / WGS 84 (EPSG:4326) / 7.4
 

Metadata

Metadata

File identifier
2e5995fa-bc01-480f-9083-1cfc1d217516   XML
Metadata language
eng
Character set
UTF8
Parent identifier
95ff7e79-9023-4309-8dd4-37cdb8f8a095
Hierarchy level
Series
Date stamp
2025-01-25T11:14:20
Metadata standard name
ISO 19115:2003/19139
Metadata standard version
1.0

  Point of contact

  +39 035 3230551 
Website
http://www.evk2cnr.org  
 
 

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No conditions apply
 

Md. maintenance

Maintenance information

Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
Update scope
Series
 

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