This sensor measures precipitation volumes with the tipping technique, where each signal is a fixed volume of water. It is located in the main Langtang Valley floor, located at an old Yak pasture. Since 2019 it is not operational anymore.
| Schema | iso19139 |
| Purpose | For the hydrological, atmospheric and cryosphere research |
| Descriptive Keyword | precipitation, meteorology (theme) Langtang, Nepal (place) |
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| Language | eng |
| Charset | utf8 |
| Hierarchy Level | dataset |
| Date | 2025-07-15T15:13:06 |
| 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 | Tipping Bucket: Numthang new station |
| Date | 2020-03-11 |
| Date Type | publication |
| Abstract | This sensor measures precipitation volumes with the tipping technique, where each signal is a fixed volume of water. It is located in the main Langtang Valley floor, located at an old Yak pasture. Since 2019 it is not operational anymore. |
| Purpose | For the hydrological, atmospheric and cryosphere research |
| Status | completed |
| 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 | 85.64315 | Geographic Extent West | 85.64315 |
| Geographic Extent North | 28.20216 | Geographic Extent South | 28.20216 |
| Resource Maintenance Information | |
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| Maintenance and update frequency | notPlanned |
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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). Tipping Bucket: Numthang new station [Data set]. ICIMOD. https://doi.org/10.26066/RDS.1972433 |
| Use Limitation | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) |
| Access Constraints | license |
| Use Constraints | license |
| 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 | |
| Voice | Position name | ||
| Address | Role | distributor | |