Namche Automatic Weather Station
An Automatic Weather Station (AWS) is located in Namche (3,570 m a.s.l.) in the Khumbu Valley.
The meteorological station is part of a network of 6 Automatic Weather Stations (AWSs) installed over the past 10 years in the area of Sagarmatha National Park.
The network takes hourly measurements of seven standard parameters: temperature, relative humidity, atmospheric pressure, wind speed and direction, global radiation, total precipitation.
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(2011) . Namche Automatic Weather Station. https://geoportal.mountaingenius.org/geonetwork/srv/api/records/f063a69e-ec02-4fc2-921b-56a42cd41303 |
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- Date ( Publication )
- 2011-03-30T17:51:00
- Purpose
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Meteo-climatic observations in this area are very important for the study of the environmental changes that are affecting this ecosystem, helping the scientific community to improve the prediction of the evolution of this environmental phenomena and modification.
The AWS in Namche Bazar is reference stations in CEOP (Coordinated Energy and Water Cycle Observation Project) under the WMO’s initiative World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) – Global Energy and Water cycle Experiment (WCRP-GEWEX).
- Status
- Completed
Point of contact
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- GEMET ( Theme )
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- thermal power plant
- Keywords
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- SHARE , Network , Station , High Altitude
- Keywords
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- CEOP
- Use limitation
- No conditions apply
- Access constraints
- Copyright
- Other constraints
- Metadata language
- eng
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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- Supplemental Information
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG / WGS 84 (EPSG:4326) / 7.4
- Topology level
- Geometry only
- Geometric object type
- Point
- Geometric object count
- 1
- Hierarchy level
- Series
- Statement
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The technologically advanced AWS instrumentation is developed by the
Italian manufacturer LSI-Lastem.
The AWS guarantee continuous measurements of air temperature, relative humidity, atmospheric pressure, global solar radiation, UVA radiation, wind speed and direction.
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)
- Snow depth - Not Measured
- Incoming shortwave radiation – 2 m CM3 Kipp&Zonen (The Netherlands)
- Outgoing shortwave radiation - 2 m CM3 Kipp&Zonen (The Netherlands)
- Incoming longwave radiation - 2 m CG3 Kipp&Zonen (The Netherlands)
- Outgoing longwave radiation - 2 m CG3 Kipp&Zonen (The Netherlands)
- Net radiation (derived) (2 m)
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- File identifier
- f063a69e-ec02-4fc2-921b-56a42cd41303 XML
- Metadata language
- eng
- Character set
- UTF8
- Parent identifier
- 2e8cbdb5-bf79-40f2-86bc-d26050336ff5
- Hierarchy level
- Series
- Date stamp
- 2025-02-21T16:15:45
- Metadata standard name
- ISO 19115:2003/19139
- Metadata standard version
- 1.0
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