{"id":2413,"date":"2019-06-22T01:58:57","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T01:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=2413"},"modified":"2019-06-22T01:58:59","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T01:58:59","slug":"scientists-places-worlds-highest-weather-stations-atop-mount-everest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/scientists-places-worlds-highest-weather-stations-atop-mount-everest\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists places worlds highest weather stations atop Mount Everest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Scientists from National Geographic Society and\nTribhuvan University<\/strong>&nbsp;installed have\ninstalled<strong>&nbsp;two\nhighest weather stations&nbsp;<\/strong>in the world in an expedition\nto&nbsp;<strong>Mount\nEverest&nbsp;<\/strong>that wrapped up in June 2019. The two weather\nmonitoring stations are located at an altitude of&nbsp;<strong>8,430 meters (27,657 feet) and 7,945\nmeters (26,066 feet)<\/strong>. Also, three other stations have been set\nup across the Mount Everest.&nbsp;<br>\nThe setting up of the weather station aim<strong>&nbsp;to collect weather data<\/strong>.\nThe data gathered from the stations will help scientists to understand how\nrising global temperatures impacts the rapidly melting glaciers.<br>\nThe nearly two month expedition involved a team\nof more than<strong>&nbsp;30\nscientists<\/strong>&nbsp;from all over the world, including&nbsp;<strong>17 Nepali researchers.<\/strong>&nbsp;The\nteam also collected the world highest ice core sample at 8,020 meters , which\nwill help the scientists study the deep record of precipitation on the mountain\nand composition of the atmosphere during pre-industrial times.&nbsp;<br>\nThe project also reached another milestone of\nplacing the<strong>&nbsp;world&#8217;s\nhighest helicopter-based lidar scan&nbsp;<\/strong>and the most detailed\nphotogrammetric imaging, also with lidar scans, of the Everest Base Camp area\nand the entire Khumbu Glacier.\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists from National Geographic Society and Tribhuvan University&nbsp;installed have installed&nbsp;two highest weather stations&nbsp;in the world in an expedition to&nbsp;Mount Everest&nbsp;that wrapped up in June 2019. The two weather monitoring stations are located at an altitude of&nbsp;8,430 meters (27,657 feet) and 7,945 meters (26,066 feet). Also, three other stations have been set up across the Mount [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2415,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2413\/revisions\/2415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}