Description

Latitude:

-9.3874058446

Longitude:

-77.2959852021

Altitude:

4650 m a.s.l.

This station was installed in the framework of the FWF project P 13567 in September 1999 in front of thhe glacier tongue of glacier Rurichinchey in the Cordelliera Blanca in Peru at an altitude of 4650 m a.s.l. to investigate the glacier climate interaction. The station operated until November 2001 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

• 09/1999: installation of the station
• 11/2001: station removed due to glacier tongue advance

Datasets

RAW

Uncorrected raw data as it is transfered from the logger, no quality checks employed.