Date ( Publication )

2011-05-20T03:00:00

Purpose

In the Khumbu Valley, in the area of Sagarmatha National Park, a network of 6 Automatic Weather Stations (AWSs) has been installed over the past 10 years. The meteorological stations are located in Lukla (2,660 m a.s.l.), Namche (3,570 m a.s.l.) Pheriche (4,260 m a.s.l.) and Lobuche, nearby the Pyramid Laboratory-Observatory (5,050 m a.s.l.). The network takes hourly measurements of seven standard parameters: temperature, relative humidity, atmospheric pressure, wind speed and direction, global radiation, total precipitation.

Status

Completed

Maintenance and update frequency

As needed

GEMET ( Theme )

• thermal power plant

Keywords

• SHARE , Network , Station , High Altitude

Keywords

• CEOP , WMO , GAW

Keywords ( Place )

• Nepal , Pheriche , Khumbu Valley , Sagarmatha National Park

Use limitation

Data Usage Policy

Access constraints

Copyright

Use constraints

Intellectual property rights

Other constraints

Character set

UTF8

Topic category

• Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
• Environment
• Geoscientific information

Supplemental Information

Reference system identifier

EPSG / WGS 84 (EPSG:4326) / 7.4

Topology level

Geometry only

Geometric object type

Point

Geometric object count

1

OnLine resource

Himalayas Reference Site Pheriche Station  

Himalayas Reference Site Pheriche Station

OnLine resource

Data Usage Policy  

Hierarchy level

Series

Statement

An automatic weather station (AWS) is defined as a “meteorological station at which observations are made and transmitted automatically” (WMO, 1992a). At an AWS, the instrument measurements are read out or received by a central data-acquisition unit. The AWS guarantee continuous measurements of air temperature, relative humidity, atmospheric pressure, global solar radiation, UVA radiation, wind speed and direction. The technologically advanced AWS instrumentation is developed by the Italian manufacturer LSI-Lastem.

The AWS is equipped with this sensors:

- Station pressure 2m CX115P Lsi-Lastem (Italy)

- Air Temperature 2m DMA570 Lsi-Lastem (Italy))

- Dew point - (2 m derived)

- Relative humidity 2 m DMA570 Lsi-Lastem (Italy)

- Specific humidity (2 m derived)

- Wind speed 5m DNA022 Lsi-Lastem (Italy)

- Wind direction 5m DNA022 Lsi-Lastem (Italy)

- U wind component (derived) (5 m)

- V wind component (derived) (5 m)

- Precipitation - 1.5m DQA035 Lsi-Lastem (Italy)

- Incoming shortwave radiation – 2 m CM3 Kipp&Zonen (The Netherlands)

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eng

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Date stamp

2025-01-21T08:35:19

Metadata standard name

ISO 19115:2003/19139

Metadata standard version

1.0