Description

Latitude:

-9.4322003058

Longitude:

-77.4659250231

Altitude:

4950 m a.s.l.

This station was installed in the framework of the FWF project P 13567 in April 2000 in front of thhe glacier tongue of glacier Rurichinchey in the Cordelliera Blanca in Peru at an altitude of 4950 m a.s.l. to investigate the glacier climate interaction. The station operated until May 2002 and was visited severy 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

• 04/2000: installation of the station
• 06/2002: last station visit: no station there, removed by local farmers and found in their house (data download until May 2002 was still possible)

Datasets

RAW

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