Site-testing is crucial for achieving the goal of scientific research and analysis of meteorological and optical observing conditions is one of the basic tasks of it. As one of three potential sites to host 12-meter Large Optical/infrared Telescope (LOT), Muztagh-ata site which is located on the Pamirs Plateau in west China's Xinjiang began its site-testing task in the spring of 2017. In this paper, we firstly start with an introduction to the site and then present a statistical analysis of the ground-level meteorological properties such as air temperature, barometric pressure, relative humidity, wind speed and direction, recorded by automatic weather station with standard meteorological sensors for two-year long. We also show the monitoring results of sky brightness during this period.
@article{arxiv.2003.14079,
title = {Site-testing at Muztagh-ata site I: Ground Meteorology and Sky Brightness},
author = {Jing Xu and Ali Esamdin and Jin-xin Hao and Jin-min Bai and Ji Yang and Xu Zhou and Yong-qiang Yao and Jin-liang Hou and Guang-xin Pu and Guo-jie Feng and Chun-hai Bai and Peng Wei and Shu-guo Ma and Abudusaimaitijiang Yisikandee and Le-tian Wang and Xuan Zhang and Liang Ming and Lu Ma and Jin-zhong Liu and Zi-huang Cao and Yong-heng Zhao and Lu Feng and Jian-rong Shi and Hua-lin Chen and Chong Pei and Xiao-jun Jiang and Jian-feng Wang and Jian-feng Tian and Yan-jie Xue and Jing-yao Hu and Yun-ying Jiang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.14079},
year = {2020}
}