Artesonraju moraine
Description
- Latitude:
- -8.96785728259
- Longitude:
- -77.6321308394
- Altitude:
- 4817.0 m a.s.l.
This station was installed in the framework of the FWF project P 16113 in July 2004 on the side moraine of Artesonraju glacier in the Cordelliera Blanca in Peru at an altitude of 4817 m a.s.l. to investigate the glacier climate interaction. The station operated until June 2014 and was visited several times by the team around project leader Georg Kaser (ACINN, former Innsbruck Tropical Glaciology Group at the Institute of Geographie). The station is currently operated by the Unidad de Glaciología y Recursos Hídricos UGRH
Station Artesonraju moraine after the installation in July 2004.
Station Equipment
- Logger:
- CR10X until 02/2011, new Logger: CR1000
- Air temperature and humidity:
- Vaisala HMP45: ventilated until 07/2010; new: unventilated with gill shield
- SWin radiation:
- star pyranometer
- Wind speed and direction:
- Young 05103
- Atmosperic air pressure:
- Setra CS100, new sensor: 05/2012
- Precipation:
- Ott precipiation balance without heating and self-draining mechanism
Station History
- 17.07.2004: installation of the station; 20.7.2004 wind direction to north (90° wrong before)
- 15.12.2004: battery and charge controller changed!
- 16.05.2006: shield casing of the HMP45 removed
- 29.06.2006: gill shield mounted vertical (instead of horizontal before)
- May 2012: Star pyranometer changed - wrong multiplier in logger program has to be changed!
Data Quality notes
- station shows major gaps from:
- 01/2007 to 03/2007 07/2010 to 02/2011 08-09/2011 11/2011 to 05/2013
- Temperature and Humidity data:
- no short time variability due to shield case until 05/2006
- Charge controller failed:
- 07/2004 to 12/2004: all measurements only during the daytime (appr. 6:00-18:00)
Datasets
- RAW
- Uncorrected raw data as it is transfered from the logger, no quality checks employed.