Kala Patthar (Khumbu Valley, Himalaya - Nepal)
In the Khumbu Valley, located in the central part of the Himalayan range and including the area of Sagarmatha National Park, a network of 7 Automatic Weather Stations (AWSs) has been installed since 1994.
These weather stations are located at different altitudes: Lukla (2,660 m a.s.l), Namche (3,570 m a.s.l), Periche (4,260 m a.s.l), Lobuche (5,050 m a.s.l) near the Pyramid - Laboratory Observatory, Kala Patthar (5,600 m a.s.l), Changri Nup Glacier (5,700 m a.s.l) and Mt. Everest - South Col (8.000 m a.s.l).
The network mainly takes measurements of 7 standards parameters: air temperature, relative humidity, atmospheric pressure, wind speed and direction, global radiation and total precipitation.
Meteo-climatic observations in this area are very important to better understand the environmental changes that are affecting the ecosystem, helping the scientific community to improve the prediction of this environmental phenomena’s evolution and modification.
The Kala Patthar AWS was installed on May 2008, at 5600 m asl.
Geographical coordinated:
- Latitude: 27° 59' 24" N
- Longitude: 86° 49' 48" E
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(2014) . Kala Patthar (Khumbu Valley, Himalaya - Nepal). https://geoportal.mountaingenius.org/geonetwork/srv/api/records/fcb39033-9ae8-401c-8ee1-7b124c90fb1b |
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- Date ( Publication )
- 2014-09-04T19:08:00
- Edition
- Name
- SHARE Network of High Altitude Stations
- Purpose
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Kala Patthar AWS provides data (with a 10 minute time resolution) of the following parameters:
- air temperature (°C)
- relative humidity (%)
- atmospheric pressure (hPa)
- global solar radiation (W/m2)
- UVA radiation (W/m2)
- wind speed (m/s)
- wind direction (degree)
- total precipitation (mm)
- Status
- Completed
Point of contact
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- Keywords ( Theme )
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- SHARE , NEXTDATA
- Keywords ( Place )
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- Nepal , Khumbu Valley , Himalaya , Kala Patthar
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- Data Sharing and Publication Policy at DISTRIBUTION SECTION
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- Intellectual property rights
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- Vector
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- UTF8
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
- Geoscientific information
- Environment
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- Reference system identifier
- EPSG / WGS 84 (EPSG:4326) / 7.4
- Topology level
- Geometry only
- Geometric object type
- Point
- Geometric object count
- 1
- OnLine resource
-
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- File identifier
- fcb39033-9ae8-401c-8ee1-7b124c90fb1b XML
- Metadata language
- eng
- Character set
- UTF8
- Parent identifier
- 64f00741-0a95-4da1-bad0-943ba71164df
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- Series
- Hierarchy level name
- Date stamp
- 2025-02-04T16:05:47
- Metadata standard name
- ISO 19115:2003/19139
- Metadata standard version
- 1.0
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