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Mount Everest 8,000 m (26,247 ft.): Data Acquisition and Advanced Technology at the Highest Automatic Weather Station in the World.
On May 15, 2008 the Ev-K2-CNR Committee installed the world ™s highest ground automatic weather station (AWS) on Mt. Everest ™s South Col at 8,000 m (26,247 ft.) a.s.l. The station, developed by the Italian manufacturer LSI-Lastem, began collecting data at 15.20, Nepali time, thanks to the exceptional efforts of a skilled team of Italian and Nepali climbers: Silvio Mondinelli, Michele Enzio and Marco Confortola; and Dawa Tshering Sherpa, Pema Chhosang Sherpa and Thsiri Sherpa of Khumjung, Phura Sherpa of Namche and Phura Sherpa of Walung. Under the technical supervision of Gian Pietro Verza, Ev-K2-CNR ™s Technical Manager, the team worked for three hours at 8,000 m (26,247 ft.) without using supplemental oxygen in extreme weather conditions to start the data acquisition process.
The AWS has already been functioning for one week, continuously measuring: air temperature, relative humidity, atmospheric pressure, global solar radiation, UVA radiation, wind speed and direction. These parameters are recorded every ten minutes and data is transmitted hourly to a server at the Pyramid Laboratory-Observatory (5,050 m – 16,568 ft.- a.s.l., near Lobuche in Nepal ™s Khumbu Valley), and from there to Ev-K2-CNR headquarters in Italy.
Following is a summary of this preliminary data, which are characterised by a mean atmospheric pressure of 380.88 hPa, westerly prevailing winds and very low humidity, especially during the night time hours. Minimum temperature reached -22.4 ° C and maximum wind speed was 117.72 km/h.
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