Khurgan Lake
Lake in Bayan-Ölgii Province, Mongolia
48°32′46″N 88°36′22″E / 48.54611°N 88.60611°E / 48.54611; 88.60611Khurgan Lake (Mongolian: Хурган нуур) is a lake located in the district of Tsengel, in the Bayan-Ölgii Province of western Mongolia.
The lake is connected to Khoton Lake by a wide and short channel (about 2 km (1 mi)); both, together with the Dayan Lake, feed the Khovd River.[1] Khurgan Lake is located within the Altai Tavan Bogd National Park.[2]
Climate
The climate is cold.[3] The average temperature is -4 °C. The warmest month is July, at 14 °C, and the coldest is December, at -24 °C.[4] The average rainfall is 278 millimeters per year. The wettest month is July, with 55 millimeters of rain, and the wettest is February, with 6 millimeters.[5]
References
- ^ Khoton and Khurgan lakes
- ^ Altaj Tavan Bogd Archived 18 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Peel, M C; Finlayson, B L (2007). "Updated world map of the Köppen-Geiger climate classification". Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. 11 (5): 1633–1644. doi:10.5194/hess-11-1633-2007. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
- ^ "NASA Earth Observations Data Set Index". NASA. Archived from the original on 6 August 2013. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
- ^ "NASA Earth Observations: Rainfall (1 month - TRMM)". NASA/Tropical Rainfall Monitoring Mission. Archived from the original on 13 April 2020. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
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