The weather station on Mount Kilimanjaro was installed in February of 2000 by the University of Massachusetts. The station monitors the mass balance of the summit glaciers. The Mt. Kilimanjaro station is one of a larger network of stations emplaced on equatorial glaciers.
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Aplicación

Station monitors weather parameters at 5,794 m

Ubicación

Tanzania

Colaboradores

Dr. Douglas Hardy, Geosciences Department, University of Massachusetts

Parámetros medidos

Air temperature, relative humidity, snow depth (with ultrasonic sensor), barometric pressure, wind speed, wind direction, snow surface temperature (with Infrared Thermometer), albedo and solar radiation (with albedometer, pyrgeometer, and radiometer)

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