Shallap Moraine Old
Description
- Latitude:
- -9.49197541667
- Longitude:
- -77.3367954298
- Altitude:
- 4945.0 m a.s.l.
This station was installed in the framework of the FWF project P 13567 in June 2002 beside the glacier Shallap in the Cordelliera Blanca in Peru at an altitude of 4945 m a.s.l. to investigate the glacier climate interaction. The station operated until May 2012 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 Shallap moraine old after the installation in 2002.
Station Equipment
- Logger:
- Campbell CR10X until 08/2010; new: CR1000
- Air Temperature and air humidity:
- Vaisala HMP45: Temp, RH ventilated at 2 m. height, after 08/2010 additionally unventilated with gill shield
- Radiation:
- Star Pyranometer: SWin
- Wind sensor:
- Young 05103: wind speed and direction
- Precipation (added 2004):
- Ott precipitation gauge without heating and self draining mechanism
Station History
- June 2002: station installed on the rocks beside the glacier Shallap
- March 2004: precipitation gauge added
- August 2010: set up of station slightly changed
- April 2012: station deinstalled - new station
Data Quality notes
- Air temperature and humidity failed:
- 05/2004 - 05/2006 06/2011 - 04/2012: ventilation off
- All measurements no data:
- 11/2009 - 06/2011
- Wind speed and direction:
- some additional major datagaps
- SWin:
- 07/2004: sensor inclined
- Logger:
- logger clock with problems after 2009 until new logger in August 2010
Datasets
- RAW
- Uncorrected raw data as it is transfered from the logger, no quality checks employed.