Urdukas (Baltoro Glacier, Baltistan - Pakistan)

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.

Geographical coordinates:

Latitude: 35° 43' 41" N

Longitude: 76° 17' 10" E

Elevation: 3926 m a.s.l.

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(2014) . Urdukas (Baltoro Glacier, Baltistan - Pakistan). https://geoportal.mountaingenius.org/geonetwork/srv/api/records/c6b6060e-0648-4f88-b108-95ea00928171

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Date ( Publication ): 2014-07-31T19:08:00

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Purpose

The Urdukas AWS, installed in 2004, provides data (with a 60 minute time resolution" for the following parameters:

- air temperature (°C)

- atmospheric pressure (hPa)

- relative humidity (%)

- total precipitation (mm)

- global solar radiation (W/m2)

- wind speed (m/s)

- wind direction (degree)

In 2011 the Urdukas AWS has been implemented with a new data logger (LSI-Lastem E-log)and new sensors to monitor:

- four component of radiations (W/m2) + sensor internal temperature (CNR1)

- snow level (m)

Status: Completed

Point of contact

Ev-K2-CNR - ( )

Via San Bernardino 145 Bergamo BG 24126 Italy

+39 035 3230511

+39 035 3230551

Website: http://www.evk2cnr.org/

Maintenance and update frequency: As needed

Keywords ( Theme )

SHARE , NEXTDATA , monitoring network , high altitude station

Keywords ( Place )

Urdukas , Baltoro Glacier , Pakistan

Use limitation: Data Sharing and Publication Policy at DISTRIBUTION SECTION

Access constraints: Intellectual property rights

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Spatial representation type: Vector

Character set: UTF8

Topic category

Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
Geoscientific information
Environment

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

Topology level: Geometry only

Geometric object type: Point

Geometric object count: 13

OnLine resource: gn:share_station
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OnLine resource: https://geoportal.mountaingenius.org/geonetwork/srv/api/records/c6b6060e-0648-4f88-b108-95ea00928171/attachments/Data%20Usage%20Policy.pdf

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.