| Arnico |
Posted
on 10-Mar-04 02:26 PM
5300 meters above sea level? That sounds like it will be somewhere near the basecamp on the northern side... around Rongbuk monastery / Rongbuk glacier.
How will that affect Nepal? Probably not at all. At best, if the station were to be communicating directly with a satellite and the data were accessible live, AND if Nepal ever had its own weather prediction computer system... the data from the new station might *slightly* help improve the accuracy of the weather predictions (but keep in mind that today there is NO operational weather forecast modeling in Nepal). But even that would depend a lot on how the station is to be equipped. If they were to launch radiosondes or have any other way of measuring upper-atmosphere properties from the new station that would be great and useful. More likely it will just be an automated surface weather station measuring t, p, RH, u, v, and perhaps solar radiation.
As far as understanding atmospheric properties (such as temperature inversion, valley ventilation) on the Nepal side... I don't think the Rongbuk station on the other side of Everest would do much that the weather station at the existing "pyramid" station at Lobuche in Nepal (at 5050 meters) could not do.
Well, I suppose now having stations at both the northern and southern bases of Everest may help slightly with understanding some of the wind patterns on the mountain itself, but only if someone were to build a very high resolution computer simulation of windflow around the peak that could incorporate the station data...
so in short... the effect on Nepal will most likely be zero.
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