A transmitting weather station was installed in April 2008 at 900 m asl near Mt Waskey, in the Auklun Mountains (59.8°N 159.3°W).
More station location information
The station was installed to inform a glacier-inventory and monitoring project:
Download the Inventory of Ahklun Mountain Glaciers (Walsh et al., 2007, Alaska Refuges Report no 07-004) (1.4 MB pdf)
View a poster presention on the project by Walsh et al. (1.1 MB jpg)
The station is sponsored by:
US Fish and Wildlife Service, Togiak National Wildlife Refuge and the Wood-Tikchik State Park
In coordination with the NAU-NSF, South Alaska Project
Sensors are manufactored by Onset Corp and include: temperature, relative humidity, rainfall, upward radiation, wind speed & direction.
Data transition is by Upward Inovations.
Hourly data are available as a excel spreadsheet.
Contact: Darrell Kaufman or Pat Walsh
Eric Helfrich (Northern Arizona Univesity) installing the weather station, April 2008 | Daily temperature (top) and precipitation (bottom) at the high-elevation station compared with Bethel and Dilligham |