This sensor measures soil moisture at three depths in the soil. It is located in the Langtang Valley, between Langshisha and Shalbachum Glacier at Langshisha Basecamp, next to an existing Tipping Bucket.
| Schema | iso19139 |
| Purpose | For the hydrological, atmospheric and cryosphere research |
| Descriptive Keyword | soil, hydrology (theme) Langtang, Nepal (place) |
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| Language | eng |
| Charset | utf8 |
| Hierarchy Level | dataset |
| Date | 2025-07-15T14:53:08 |
| Standard Name | North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 |
| Contact | |||
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| Name | Mr. Jakob Steiner | jakob.steiner@icimod.org | |
| Organization Name | ICIMOD | Voice | |
| Position name | Glacier Hydrologist | Address | |
| Role | author | ||
| Identification Info | |
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| Title | Soil Moisture: Langshisha BC |
| Date | 2020-03-11 |
| Date Type | publication |
| Abstract | This sensor measures soil moisture at three depths in the soil. It is located in the Langtang Valley, between Langshisha and Shalbachum Glacier at Langshisha Basecamp, next to an existing Tipping Bucket. |
| Purpose | For the hydrological, atmospheric and cryosphere research |
| Status | onGoing |
| Charset | utf8 |
| Topic Category | climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere |
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| Cited Responsible Parties | |||
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| Name | Mr. Jakob Steiner | jakob.steiner@icimod.org | |
| Organization Name | ICIMOD | Voice | 977-1-5275222 |
| Position name | Glacier Hydrologist | Address | Nepal |
| Role | author | ||
| Name | Prof. Walter Immerzeel | w.w.immerzeel@uu.nl | |
| Organization Name | Utrecht University | Voice | |
| Position name | Address | ||
| Role | author |
| Geographic Extent | |||
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| Geographic Extent East | 85.67154 | Geographic Extent West | 85.67154 |
| Geographic Extent North | 28.21365 | Geographic Extent South | 28.21365 |
| Resource Maintenance Information | |
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| Maintenance and update frequency | annually |
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| Legal Constraints | |
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| 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). Soil Moisture: Langshisha BC [Data set]. ICIMOD. https://doi.org/10.26066/RDS.1972419 |
| Use Limitation | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) |
| Access Constraints | copyright |
| Use Constraints | copyright |
| Reference System Information | |
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| Code | WGS 1984 |
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| Hierarchy level | dataset |
| Distributor Info | |||
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| metadata@icimod.org | Organization Name | ICIMOD | |
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| Address | Role | distributor | |