At 3 a.m. on October 1, the expedition team set off from the C2 camp of Zhuo Aoyou Peak at an altitude of 7,100 meters, and after more than 6 hours of climbing, arrived at the summit of Zhuo Aoyou Peak at an altitude of 8201 meters at 9:15 on the same day, and successfully set up an automatic weather station at an altitude of 8201 meters.
Previously, the expedition team successfully set up 4 automatic weather stations at altitudes of 4950 meters, 5700 meters, 6450 meters and 7100 meters, so far, the gradient meteorological observation system of Zhuo Aoyou Peak was officially constructed.
With global warming, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is characterized by higher altitude and greater warming. This phenomenon is based on the observation of weather stations below 5,000 meters above sea level, but at higher altitudes, there was no meteorological measured data before, but only extrapolated from remote sensing data. Globally, meteorological observations at very high altitudes are also scarce.
In order to fill this gap, the second Qinghai-Tibet scientific expedition team built eight gradient automatic weather stations on the northern slope of Mount Everest, of which the automatic weather station erected at an altitude of 8,830 meters became the highest automatic weather station in the world. In the past two years, the meteorological observation system of Xishabangma Peak and Zhuo Aoyou Peak has been successively built, so as to obtain more complete meteorological observation data of extremely high altitude gradient.
The extremely high-altitude meteorological observation system of Zhuo Aoyou Peak was established, and the global peak meteorological observation network was formed with the extremely high altitude meteorological gradient observation system of Mount Everest-Shishabangma Peak, thereby revealing the change process and mechanism of the cryosphere on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
Expedition members set up an automatic weather station at an altitude of 6,450 meters (pictured on September 25). Xinhua News Agency (provided by Zhuo Ao Youfeng scientific expedition team)
An automatic weather station at the 5,700-metre-high Cho Oyo Peak Advance Camp (pictured on September 29). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Jigme Dorjee
Zhao Huabiao (right) and colleagues set up an automatic weather station at an altitude of 6,450 meters (pictured on September 25). Xinhua News Agency (provided by Zhuo Ao Youfeng scientific expedition team)
Expedition members set up an automatic weather station on the summit of Cho Aoyou Peak (photographed on October 1). Xinhua News Agency (provided by Zhuo Ao Youfeng scientific expedition team)
Expedition members set up an automatic weather station on the summit of Cho Aoyou Peak (photographed on October 1). Xinhua News Agency (provided by Zhuo Ao Youfeng scientific expedition team)
An automatic weather station at the 5,700-metre-high Cho Oyo Peak Advance Camp (pictured on September 29). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Jigme Dorjee
At the base camp of the Zhuo Aoyou Peak scientific expedition at an altitude of 4,950 meters, Zhao Huabiao, a member of the scientific expedition team (a person holding a microphone and looking at the computer), read the peak meteorological observation data just received, marking the successful installation of the peak automatic weather station and the successful transmission of observation data (taken on October 1). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Jigme Dorjee
An automatic weather station at the 5,700-metre-high Cho Oyo Peak Advance Camp (pictured on September 29). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Jigme Dorjee
An automatic weather station at the 5,700-metre-high Cho Oyo Peak Advance Camp (pictured on September 29). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Jigme Dorjee
Zhao Huabiao (right) and colleagues set up an automatic weather station at an altitude of 6,450 meters (pictured on September 25). Xinhua News Agency (provided by Zhuo Ao Youfeng scientific expedition team)