ISLAMABAD
APP
Pakistan’s first-ever highest altitude meteorological climate station has been installed at the K2 Base Camp in the Karakorum, said Ev-K2-CNR Communication Consultant Munir Ahmed in a statement issued Thursday.
Ahmed said the highly sophisticated climate station belong to the integrated Share project funded by the EvK2CNR comprising an international climate and atmospheric monitoring network, researches in environmental and geophysical sciences and new technology development for monitoring activity in high mountain regions.
With the installation of the climate station at Boltoro, the first scientific challenge of the expedition has been accomplished.
The station has been designed and provided by CAE – an Italian leader in the multi-hazard monitoring and early warning – and it has been produced with a modular structure which can be disassembled into parts in order to simplify the difficult transportation during the long trekking on the Baltoro Glacier.
The station has been provided with four sensors: anemometer, thermoigrometer, barometer, albedometer- measuring wind speed and direction, temperature, humidity, snow level and solar irradiation and it is able to transmit the data automatically and in real time to the researchers.
This meteorological station at K2 Base Camp is the fourth Share station located on the Baltoro area – Elisa Vuillermoz, EvK2CNR scientific coordinator, says. The data that will be provided by this new station will increase all climatic data and information that we have about Central Karakorum area.