Research Article

Surface Air Temperature Fluctuations and Lapse Rates on Olivares Gamma Glacier, Rio Olivares Basin, Central Chile, from a Novel Meteorological Sensor Network

Table 3

Comparison of mean hourly lapse rate data (°C km−1) for 22–26 March 2015 at the five Tinytag sites (2-m sensors). See Figure 1 and Table 1 for site details. Hours with nocturnal observations are highlighted in italic (https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/chile/santiago), here illustrated in UTC.

Hour (UTC)LR (S4-S2)LR (S3-S2)LR (S5-S2)LR (S6-S2)LR (S4-S6)LR (S3-S6)LR (S5-S6)LR (S4-S5)LR (S4-S3)

0−7.4−6.8−8.3−10.9−6.4−4.7−6.5−6.3−8.3
1−7.6−7.4−8.5−9.8−7.0−6.1−7.6−6.6−8.0
2−6.9−6.2−7.6−8.7−6.4−4.9−6.9−6.0−8.0
3−7.2−6.5−8.1−10.9−6.2−4.3−6.3−6.1−8.4
4−8.3−8.3−9.6−11.4−7.5−6.7−8.4−6.9−8.3
5−7.9−7.9−9.1−9.1−7.5−7.2−9.0−6.4−7.8
6−7.7−7.3−8.7−8.7−7.4−6.5−8.7−6.5−8.3
7−7.2−7.3−8.6−9.2−6.6−6.3−8.2−5.4−7.0
8−6.9−6.6−8.2−9.2−6.2−5.3−7.5−5.3−7.4
9−7.2−6.1−7.6−9.5−6.6−4.4−6.3−6.8−9.2
10−7.4−6.9−8.4−9.6−6.8−5.5−7.6−6.3−8.3
11−7.2−6.5−8.0−9.3−6.6−5.1−7.1−6.2−8.3
12−6.2−6.2−7.6−7.8−5.7−5.3−7.4−4.5−6.1
13−5.8−6.5−8.3−7.7−5.3−5.9−8.8−2.7−4.5
14−7.0−7.3−7.9−7.4−6.9−7.2−8.3−5.9−6.6
15−10.0−10.1−11.5−13.0−9.2−8.6−10.5−8.3−9.8
16−9.0−7.0−10.0−8.6−9.1−6.1−11.0−7.8−12.5
17−9.1−8.3−10.8−2.1−11.0−11.5−16.6−7.1−10.5
18−6.2−0.3−5.01.5−8.3−1.2−9.3−7.5−16.3
19−7.0−1.9−5.1−3.2−8.1−1.1−6.4−9.3−16.0
20−7.4−7.1−8.6−7.1−7.4−7.1−9.6−5.9−7.8
21−7.5−7.3−9.2−8.0−7.4−6.9−10.0−5.5−7.9
22−7.2−6.7−8.1−6.6−7.4−6.7−9.1−6.3−8.2
23−7.7−7.1−8.5−9.6−7.2−5.8−7.8−6.8−8.8
Mean−7.5−6.6−8.4−8.2−7.3−5.9−8.5−6.4−8.9
ST DEV0.91.91.43.11.22.12.21.32.7