Paprika - Preshine hydrology data sets in the Everest Region (Nepal). 2010-2018

The successive Paprika (2010-2013) and Preshine (2014-2018) projects, funded by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche - France, have installed and managed several hydrometerological stations in the Upper Solukhumbu district (Nepal), including the West and South Faces of Mount Everest. Both projects aimed to improve knowledge on the water resources and their uses by local populations, the Paprika project being interested in regional scale and the Preshine project in local scale. The database provides discharge data for 5 hydrological basins: Imja Khola at Dingboche (area = 140.4 km², altitude = 4365m), Khumbu Khola at Pheriche (144.9 km², 4216m), Tauche Khola at Pangboche (4.387 km², 4000m), Dudh Koshi at Phakding (1217 km², 2620m) and Khari Khola at Kharikhola (18.2 km², 1981m). It also provides meteorological data (precipitation and air temperature) for 14 stations: Kharikhola (2078m), Mera School (2249m), Ballukop (altitude=2575m), Monastry Namdrolling (2561m), Phakding (2619m), Paramdingma (2869m), Monastry Pangom (3022m), Pangboche (3950m), Pheric he (4260m), Pyramid (5035m), Mera La (5350m), Changri Nup A (5360m), Naulek (5360), Changri Nup B (5472m), Mera Summit (6352m). The data are available at hourly and daily time steps under certain conditions with the signature of an agreement.