Mountain weather-station readings in Nepal (Langtang)
What it measures. Weather readings from mountain stations in the Langtang area of Nepal, including air temperature, pressure, rainfall intensity, humidity, and wind speed and direction.
How it's made. Recorded directly by automatic weather stations on the ground, operated by the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD).
How & where you'd use it. Provides ground-truth mountain weather data for studying high-altitude climate and water resources, and for checking satellite and model estimates in a hard-to-reach region.
What's measured
Coverage & cadence
- Time span2017-10-22 → 2018-11-01
- Measured byGROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS (IceCube)
- Processing levelLevel 4
- Spatial extent85.61, 28.214, 85.61, 28.214
- FormatsCSV
- StatusCOMPLETE
What you can do with it
- Map air pollutants — NO₂, aerosols, ozone
- Track greenhouse gases and Earth's energy budget
- Feed weather and air-quality analysis
Official description
This data set contains meteorological data, such as air temperature, pressure, rainfall intensity, relative humidity, and wind direction/speed measured by the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD).
Get the data
import earthaccess
earthaccess.login(strategy="netrc") # free Earthdata Login
results = earthaccess.search_data(
short_name="HMA_AWS",
version="1",
bounding_box=(-122.5, 37.2, -121.8, 37.9), # your area (W,S,E,N)
temporal=("2024-01-01", "2024-12-31"), # your dates
)
files = earthaccess.open(results) # stream straight from NSIDC_CPRDBrowsing CMR needs no login. Downloading or streaming bytes needs a free Earthdata Login + the earthaccess package. Official links
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- High Mountain Asia Langtang Automatic Weather Station Measurements, Version 1 User Guide VIEW RELATED INFORMATION