Observation sites

Altitudes (ASTER DEM v3) and locations of rain gauge stations along the Rolwaling valley, eastern Nepal Himalayas. Green diamonds: Tipping-bucket rain gauges, red circles: Automatic weather station (AWS)

Site information (Altitudes were observed by a handy GPS):

  1. Singati (1,001 m): tipping rain gauge (since May 2019)

  2. Gongar (1,311 m): tipping rain gauge (since May 2019)

  3. Simigaun (2,024 m): tipping rain gauge (since May 2019)

  4. Dongang (2,790 m): tipping rain gauge (since May 2019)

  5. Beding (3,761 m): tipping rain gauge (since May 2019)

  6. Na (4,183 m): tipping rain gauge (since May 2019)

  7. AWS1 by Tsho Rolpa (4,806 m): tipping rain gauge (installed by prof. Fujita's group since 2016),

  8. AWS2 by the glacier (5,442m), weighing rain gauge (newly installed by Prof. Fujita's JSPS-SNSF project in October 2019)