In 2018, the Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research Programme tasked a research team to conduct an "Investigation of the water vapor channel of the Yarlung Zangbo Grand Canyon" in the southeastern Tibetan Plateau. This team subsequently established a three-dimensional comprehensive observation system of land-air interaction, water vapor transport, cloud cover, and rainfall activity along different altitude from south to north along the YGC canyon. Motuo meteorological station is an integrated observation base of a variety of large observation equipment. The whole comprehensive observation network includes 2 cloud radars, 2 micro rain radars, seven sets of eddy covariance flux sites for measuring land-air interaction, 3 sets of microwave radiometers , 6 sets of GPS water vapor observatories, 2 sets of automatic weather stations and 19 sets of rainfall buckets.

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Cloud_cover 云量数据， flux_site 地表通量数据，Ka_cloud_radar Ka云雷达数据，micro_rain_radar微雨雷达数据，microwave_radiometers微波辐射计

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Chen, X., Xu, X., Wang, G., Ma, Y., Luo, S., Wang, X. (2021). Investigation the water vapor channel of Yarlung Zangbo Grand Canyon (2018-2019). A Big Earth Data Platform for Three Poles, DOI: 10.11888/Atmos.tpdc.271906. CSTR: 18406.11.Atmos.tpdc.271906. (Download the reference： RIS | Bibtex )

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