Rurichinchey high
Description
- Latitude:
- -9.37348598989
- Longitude:
- -77.3005556076
- Altitude:
- 4980.0 m a.s.l.
This station was installed in the framework of the FWF project P 13567 in October 2000 beside the glacier Rurichinchey in Cordelliera Blanca in Peru at an altitude of 4980 m a.s.l. to investigate the glacier climate interaction. The station operated until May 2004 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 Equipment
- Logger:
- Campbell CR10X
- Air Temperature and air humidity:
- Vaisala HMP45: Temp, RH ventilated at 2 m. height
- Radiation:
- star pyranometer: SWin radiation
- Wind sensor:
- Young 05103: wind speed and direction
Station History
- 10/2000: installation of the station
- 05/2004: last data download
Data Quality notes
- major datagaps:
- 01/2001 - 05/2001
Datasets
- RAW
- Uncorrected raw data as it is transfered from the logger, no quality checks employed.