Meteorological Observations at Trakarding Glacier Automatic Weather Station, Rolwaling, Nepal, 2016-2019

• Main Authors: Fujita, Koji, Sunako, Sojiro, Sakai, Akiko
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2021
• Subjects: Albedo; fraction; automatic weather station; AWS; DATE/TIME; Day of the year; glacier; Himalayas; Humidity; relative; Nepal; Net radiation; Net radiometer; Kipp & Zonen; NR-LITE2; Precipitation; Pyranometer; CMP3; Short-wave downward (GLOBAL) radiation; Short-wave upward (REFLEX) radiation; Station pressure; Surface temperature; Temperature; air; Texas Electronics; TR525M (tipping bucket); Thermometer; PT100; Trakarding_Glacier_AWS; Vaisala Weather station WXT520; Wind direction; Wind speed; Journal of Glaciology
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.931159; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.931159

The data set contains records from an automatic weather station (AWS) installed at the lateral moraine of Trakarding Glacier (4806 m.a.s.l.), Rolwaling, Nepal Himalaya. The station was installed by the authors and has been operating since May 2016, measuring downward and upward solar radiations, alb...