Weather station data from the Mount Everest region, Nepal: 3810–8810 m above sea level

IF 13.6 1区地球科学 Q1 GEOSCIENCES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Earth System Science Data Pub Date : 2026-10-01 DOI:10.5194/essd-18-7253-2026

Arbindra Khadka,Lester Baker Perry,Tom Matthews,Tenzing Gyalzen Sherpa,Chitra Bahadur Shrestha,Dibas Shrestha,Deepak Aryal,Subash Tuladhar,Niraj Pradhananga,Dinkar Kayastha,Brian Raichle,Peter Athans,Dawa Yangzum Sherpa,Keith Garrett,Garrett Wheeler,Tom Young,Aurora Elmore

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Between 2019 and 2025, as part of the National Geographic and Rolex Perpetual Planet Everest expeditions, a team of National Geographic Explorers, scientists, and elite climbing Sherpas installed a network of Automatic Weather Stations (AWSs) to improve understanding of the climate at high altitudes in the Nepal Himalaya. This knowledge is critical in the Mount Everest (Khumbu) region, due to its extreme altitude, popularity amongst trekkers and mountaineers, and its importance as a source of freshwater for downstream communities. Here we present quality controlled (QC) meteorological data from six AWSs extending from Phortse (3810 m above sea level, m a.s.l.) to Bishop Rock (8810 m a.s.l.) in the Everest region, including the seasonal climatology focused on the three lower elevation AWSs, and a comparison with ERA5 reanalysis data from the South Col AWS. The data is accessible from https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18849098 (Khadka, 2026a).

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尼泊尔珠穆朗玛峰地区气象站资料：海拔3810-8810米

在2019年至2025年期间，作为国家地理和劳力士永久星球珠穆朗玛峰探险的一部分，一个由国家地理探险家、科学家和精英登山夏尔巴人组成的团队安装了一个自动气象站（AWSs）网络，以提高对尼泊尔喜马拉雅高海拔地区气候的了解。这些知识对于珠穆朗玛峰（昆布）地区至关重要，因为它的极端海拔，在徒步旅行者和登山者中很受欢迎，而且它是下游社区的重要淡水来源。本文介绍了珠穆朗玛峰地区从Phortse（海拔3810 m， a.s.l）到Bishop Rock（海拔8810 m， a.s.l）的6个AWS的质量控制（QC）气象数据，包括3个低海拔AWS的季节气候特征，并与南高AWS的ERA5再分析数据进行了比较。数据可从https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18849098 （Khadka, 2026a）获得。

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Earth System Science Data GEOSCIENCES, MULTIDISCIPLINARYMETEOROLOGY-METEOROLOGY & ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES

CiteScore

18.00

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5.30%

发文量

231

审稿时长

35 weeks

期刊介绍： Earth System Science Data (ESSD) is an international, interdisciplinary journal that publishes articles on original research data in order to promote the reuse of high-quality data in the field of Earth system sciences. The journal welcomes submissions of original data or data collections that meet the required quality standards and have the potential to contribute to the goals of the journal. It includes sections dedicated to regular-length articles, brief communications (such as updates to existing data sets), commentaries, review articles, and special issues. ESSD is abstracted and indexed in several databases, including Science Citation Index Expanded, Current Contents/PCE, Scopus, ADS, CLOCKSS, CNKI, DOAJ, EBSCO, Gale/Cengage, GoOA (CAS), and Google Scholar, among others.