Abstract
Abstract Mount Everest, the highest point on the Earth is often referred to as the earth's third pole as such the place is relatively inaccessible and little is known about its meteorology. In April 2005, an automatic weather station was installed as the mountain's North Col (6523 m a. s. l.). According to the observational 10-minute mean and daily records, the meteorological characteristics were analyzed. All the meteorological elements displayed obvious diurnal variations during May 1 to July 22, 2005. The monthly variation of daily meteorological elements on Mount Everest coincided with that on Dingri, the closest routine meteorological station, with the high correlation co-efficients of 0.928, 0.877, 0.682, 0.755, 0.826 and 0.676 (n = 83, p < 0.001) for mean temperature, minimum temperature, maximum temperature, relative humidity, pressure and wind speed, respectively. Furthermore, the vertical mean gradient of temperature was above 0.6°C/100 m, especially for the daily maximum temperature. Most weath...
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