Schema	iso19139
Purpose	Hourly resolution meteorological data for meteorological studies, and input to models of glacier melt and catchment hydrology.
Descriptive Keyword	meteorology, Automatic Weather Station, AWS, Glacier, precipitation (theme) Kyanging, Langtang (place)

Metadata Record Info
Language	eng
Charset	utf8
Hierarchy Level	dataset
Date	2025-07-17T14:06:43
Standard Name	North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003

Contact
Name	Mr. Tika Ram Gurung	Email	tika.gurung@icimod.org
Organization Name	ICIMOD	Voice	977-1-5275222
Position name	Glacier Hydrologist	Address	Nepal
Role	author

Identification Info
Title	Meteorological data from Kyanging automatic weather station
Date	2016-06-20
Date Type	publication
Abstract	Main AWS in Langtang catchment, measuring all atmospheric variables. The station is run in collaboration with DHM and maintained at the main monitoring compound of DHM in Kyanjing.
Purpose	Hourly resolution meteorological data for meteorological studies, and input to models of glacier melt and catchment hydrology.
Status	onGoing
Charset	utf8
Topic Category	climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Spatial Representation Type	textTable

Cited Responsible Parties
Name	Mr. Tika Ram Gurung	Email	tika.gurung@icimod.org
Organization Name	ICIMOD	Voice
Position name	Cryosphere Analyst	Address
Role	author

Name	Mr. Jakob Steiner	Email	jakob.steiner@icimod.org
Organization Name	ICIMOD	Voice
Position name		Address
Role	author

Geographic Extent
Geographic Extent East	85.56169	Geographic Extent West	85.56169
Geographic Extent North	28.21081	Geographic Extent South	28.21081

Resource Maintenance Information
Maintenance and update frequency	annually
User Defined Maintenance Frequency
Date of Next Update

Legal Constraints
Use Limitation	Free to use with attribution to the source. Suggested citation: ICIMOD. (2016). Meteorological data from Kyanging automatic weather station [Data set]. ICIMOD. https://doi.org/10.26066/RDS.22464
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
Code

Data Quality Info
Hierarchy level	dataset

Distributor Info
Email	metadata@icimod.org	Organization Name	ICIMOD
Voice	977-1-5275222	Position name
Address		Role	distributor

Transfer Option
Online Resource	doi:10.1080/07900627.2015.1020417