Paria
Description
- Latitude:
- -8.97176485
- Longitude:
- -77.6006049
- Altitude:
- 4450.0 m a.s.l.
This station was installed in the framework of the FWF project P 16113 in July 2007 at Paria on the west side of Cordelliera Blanca in Peru at an altitude of 4450 m a.s.l. to investigate the glacier climate interaction. The station operated until 07/2011 and was visited several times by the team around project leader Georg Kaser (ACINN, former Innsbruck Tropical Glaciology Group at the Institute of Geographie).
Station Paria after the installation in July 2007.
Station Equipment
- Logger:
- Campbell CR10X
- Precipitation:
- Ott precipitation balance without heating and self draining mechanism
Station History
- 07/2007: station installed on the west side of the Cordillera Blanca in Paria
- 07/2011: station extented to a full AWS and equiped with an iridum sattelite telemtry (station Paria-telemetry)
Datasets
- RAW
- Uncorrected raw data as it is transfered from the logger, no quality checks employed.