Abstract
Abstract. The regional research network Water in Central Asia (CAWa) funded by the German Federal Foreign Office consists of 18 remotely operated multi-parameter stations (ROMPSs) in Central Asia. These stations were installed by the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) in Potsdam, Germany, in close cooperation with the Central-Asian Institute for Applied Geosciences (CAIAG) in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan; the national hydrometeorological services in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan; the Ulugh Beg Astronomical Institute in Tashkent, Uzbekistan; and the Kabul Polytechnic University, Afghanistan. The primary objective of these stations is to support the establishment of a reliable data basis of meteorological and hydrological data especially in remote areas with extreme climate conditions for applications in climate and water monitoring in Central Asia. Up to now, 10 years of data have been provided for an area of scarce station distribution and with limited open-access data which can be used for a wide range of scientific or engineering applications. The data described in this paper are made publicly available with the digital object identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.5880/GFZ.1.2.2020.002 (Zech et al., 2020) or via the Sensor Data Storage System (SDSS) at http://sdss.caiag.kg (last access: 22 February 2021).
Highlights
Central Asia with its former Soviet republics Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan is a region that varies from high mountains to deep valleys, vast deserts and fertile river basins
The river discharge data were used to infer the meltwater of the snow-covered mountains of Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan with the demand for water in the arid but agriculturally used land of Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan in exchange for coal, oil and gas (Bernauer and Siegfried, 2012)
While some of these stations have been installed to monitor the tectonically active parts of the Pamir Mountains and Tian Shan areas with a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) (Zubovich et al, 2016), others are dedicated to monitoring glacier dynamics and glacier lake outburst floods (Zech et al, 2016) and to re-establishing glacier monitoring for mass balance studies (Hoelzle et al, 2012)
Summary
Central Asia with its former Soviet republics Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan is a region that varies from high mountains to deep valleys, vast deserts and fertile river basins. While some of these stations have been installed to monitor the tectonically active parts of the Pamir Mountains and Tian Shan areas with a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) (Zubovich et al, 2016), others are dedicated to monitoring glacier dynamics and glacier lake outburst floods (Zech et al, 2016) and to re-establishing glacier monitoring for mass balance studies (Hoelzle et al, 2012). An overview of the station locations, the methods of data collection including their known quality issues and further documentation are given
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