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.

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

INSPIRE

Identification

File identifier
c6b6060e-0648-4f88-b108-95ea00928171   XML
Hierarchy level
Series
Online resource
Protocol
OGC:WMS-1.1.1-http-get-map
Protocol
GLG:KML-2.0-http-get-map
Protocol
WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download
Resource identifier
Spatial representation type
Vector
Encoding
Projection
code
WGS 84 (EPSG:4326)
 

Classification of data and services

Topic category
  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
  • Geoscientific information
  • Environment
 

Classification of data and services

Coupled resource
Coupled resource
 
 

Classification of data and services

Coupled resource
Coupled resource
 
 

Keywords

Other keywords
Keywords ( Theme )
  • SHARE , NEXTDATA , monitoring network , high altitude station
Keywords ( Place )
  • Urdukas , Baltoro Glacier , Pakistan
 
 

Geographic coverage

N
S
E
W


 

Temporal reference

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

Quality and validity

Lineage

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.

 

Conformity

Conformity
Conformity
 

Conformity

Conformity
Conformity
 

Restrictions on access and use

Access constraints
 

Restrictions on access and use

 

Responsible organization (s)

Contact for the resource
Organisation name
Ev-K2-CNR
Email
evk2cnr@evk2cnr.org
 

Responsible organization (s)

Contact for the resource
Organisation name
Ev-K2-CNR
Email
evk2cnr@evk2cnr.org
 

Metadata information

Contact for the metadata
Organisation name
Ev-K2-CNR
Email
metadata@evk2cnr.org
Date stamp
2025-02-21T16:45:10
Metadata language
eng
Character set
UTF8
 
 

SDS

Conformance class 1: invocable

Access Point URL
Endpoint URL
Technical specification
 

Conformance class 2: interoperable

Coordinate reference system
 
Quality of Service
 
Access constraints
Limitation
 
Use constraints
Limitation
 
Responsible custodian
Contact for the resource
 
 

Conformance class 3: harmonized

 
 

  Overviews

thumbnail
large_thumbnail

  Provided by

  Share on social sites

         

  Views

Read here the full details and access to the data.

  Associated resources

Not available