A short communication on meteorological observations at Mt. Everest 6523 m

Mt. Everest is relatively inaccessible and little is known about its meteorology. On 27 April 2005, an automatic weather station was displayed on the north column (28°01'0.95"N, 86°57'48.4"E, 6523 masl) of Mt. Everest. This paper summarizes the meteorological data collected from 1 May to 22 July 2005. The measured variables included long-wave radiation, air temperature, relative humidity and baromteric pressure. The daily record indicates synoptic scale variability in the thermodynamic variables, while short-wave radiation and wind speed decrease gradually at different degree, net radiation changes little with a slight increase, and wind direction turns from north to south.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	XIE,A., QIN,D., REN,J., XIAO,C., QIN,X., HOU,S., YANG,X., JIANG,Y.
Format:	Digital revista
Language:	English
Published:	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Centro de Ciencias de la Atmósfera 2007
Online Access:	http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0187-62362007000400005
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