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Tipping Bucket: Lirung

This sensor measures precipitation volumes with the tipping technique, where each signal is a fixed volume of water. It is located in Langtang Valley on the left moraine of Lirung Glacier (looking up-valley) at a Yak pasture. It is no longer oprational.

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Date ( Publication )
2020-03-11
Author
  ICIMOD - Mr. Jakob Steiner ( Glacier Hydrologist )
Nepal
977-1-5275222
Author
  Utrecht University - Prof. Walter Immerzeel
Other citation details
ICIMOD & Utrecht University. (2020). Tipping Bucket: Lirung [Data set]. ICIMOD. https://doi.org/10.26066/RDS.1972426
Purpose
For the hydrological, atmospheric and cryosphere research
Status
Completed
Maintenance and update frequency
Not planned
( Theme )
  • precipitation
  • meteorology
Keywords ( Place )
  • Langtang
  • Nepal
Use limitation
Free to use with attribution to the source. Funded via the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (grant agreement no. 676819) and the research programme VIDI (016.161.308 financed by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).
Use limitation
Free to use with attribution to the source. Suggested citation: ICIMOD & Utrecht University. (2020). Tipping Bucket: Lirung [Data set]. ICIMOD. https://doi.org/10.26066/RDS.1972426
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License
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Metadata language
eng
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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Reference system identifier
WGS 1984
Distributor
  ICIMOD -
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Dataset
File identifier
662ac66f-4eaf-4940-b1b5-e0a27133d77b XML
Metadata language
eng
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2025-07-15T15:04:01
Metadata standard name
North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003
Author
  ICIMOD - Mr. Jakob Steiner ( Glacier Hydrologist )
 
 

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