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Data Publication

PRESSurE precipitation time series, Nepal

Andermann, Christoff | Sitaula, Ambika Prasad | Queißer, Torsten

GFZ Data Services

(2021)

Descriptions

This data set was taken within the Perturbations of Earth Surface Processes by Large Earthquakes PRESSurE Project (https://www.gfz-potsdam.de/en/section/geomorphology/projects/pressure/) of the GFZ Potsdam. This project aims to better understand the role of earthquakes on earth surface processes. Strong earthquakes cause transient perturbations of the near Earth’s surface system. These include the widespread landsliding and subsequent mass movement and the loading of rivers with sediments. In addition, rock mass is shattered during the event, forming cracks that affect rock strength and hydrological conductivity. Often overlooked in the immediate aftermath of an earthquake, these perturbations can represent a major part of the overall disaster with an impact that can last for years before restoring to background conditions. Thus, the relaxation phase is part of the seismically induced change by an earthquake and needs to be monitored in order to understand the full impact of earthquakes on the Earth system. Early June 2015, shortly after the April 2015 Mw7.9 Gorkha earthquake, 6 automatic compact weather station were installed in the upper Bhotekoshi catchment covering an area ~50km2. The weather station network is centered around the Kahule Khola catchment, a small headwater catchment and is part of a wider data acquisition strategy including hydrological monitoring, seismometers, geophones and high resolution optical (RapidEye) as well as radar imagery (TanDEM TerraSAR-X). https://www.gfz-potsdam.de/sektion/geomorphologie/projekte/pressure/

Keywords


Originally assigned keywords
rainfall
Precipitation
Nepal
Himalayas
Gorkha Earthquake
perturbations
Bhotekoshi River
Weather station
climate > climate type > continental climate > mountain climate
EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > PRECIPITATION AMOUNT
EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > PRECIPITATION RATE
EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > RAIN
EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > NATURAL HAZARDS > EARTHQUAKES
EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > SOILS > SOIL EROSION
EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > TOPOGRAPHY > TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECTS
EARTH SCIENCE > SOLID EARTH > GEOMORPHIC LANDFORMS/PROCESSES > TECTONIC LANDFORMS > MOUNTAINS
In Situ Land-based Platforms > WEATHER STATIONS/NETWORKS
In Situ/Laboratory Instruments > Gauges > RAIN GAUGES
land > world > Asia > Southern Asia

MSL enriched keywords
Measured property
stress relaxation

MSL enriched sub domains i

rock and melt physics

Source

https://dataservices.gfz-potsdam.de/panmetaworks/showshort.php?id=3d0044ab-8684-11eb-9603-497c92695674

Source publisher

GFZ Data Services


DOI

10.5880/gfz.4.6.2021.002


Creators

Andermann, Christoff

GFZ Potsdam

ORCID:

Sitaula, Ambika Prasad

Apex Aventure

Queißer, Torsten

GFZ Potsdam


Contributors

Andermann, Christoff

ProjectLeader

GFZ Potsdam

ORCID:

Sitaula, Ambika Prasad

DataCollector

Apex Aventure

Queißer, Torsten

Producer

GFZ Potsdam

Andermann, Christoff

ContactPerson

GFZ Potsdam


References

10.5880/gfz.4.6.2021.002

https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/spatstat/spatstat.pdf


Citation

Andermann, C., Sitaula, A. P., & Queißer, T. (2021). PRESSurE precipitation time series, Nepal [Data set]. GFZ Data Services. https://doi.org/10.5880/GFZ.4.6.2021.002


Dates

Collected:

2015-06-10/2018-10-01

Issued:

2021


Funding References

Funder name: GFZ

Award title: HART 2015


Rights

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International


Spatial coordinates