Thin Ice : unlocking the secrets of climate in the world's highest mountains / Mark Bowen.

• PART 1: THE SAJAMA EXPEDITION -- The mountain god -- An island in the sky -- PART 2: THE EARLY DAYS -- Where next? -- Beginnings -- A decade on Quelccaya -- PART 3: THE WARMING SETS IN -- First signs -- The great experiments -- Temperature follows suit -- China opens up -- PART 4: THE ESSENCE OF LIFE -- A city by a lake -- The seesaw -- PART 5: MORE PIECES FOR THE PUZZLE -- Casting about -- From Tibet… -- …to Peru -- Altering the course of thinking -- Pushing back the bar -- Solving the Mercer problem -- Endurance and tragedy on Dasuopa -- PART 6: KILIMANJARO -- Scratching the surface -- Drilling deeper -- The story in the snows. 

• The world's premier climatologist, Lonnie Thompson has been risking his career and life on the highest and most remote ice caps along the equator, in search of clues to the history of climate change. His most innovative work has taken place on these mountain glaciers, where he collects ice cores that provide detailed information about climate history, reaching back 750,000 years. To gather significant data Thompson has spent more time in the death zone—the environment above eighteen thousand feet—than any man who has ever lived. Scientist and expert climber Mark Bowen joined Thompson's crew on several expeditions; his exciting and brilliantly detailed narrative takes the reader deep inside retreating glaciers from China, across South America, and to Africa to unravel the mysteries of climate. Most important, we learn what Thompson's hard-won data reveals about global warming, the past, and the earth's probable future. 

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Atmosfären  (sao)

Klimatförändringar  (sao)

Klimatologi  (sao)

Tropikerna  (sao)

Atmosphere, Upper  -- Observations. (LCSH)

Climatic changes  -- Research. (LCSH)

Climatology  -- Research. (LCSH)

Atmosphere  (LCSH)

Climatic changes  (LCSH)

Tropics  (LCSH)

Climatology  (LCSH)

Tropics  -- Climate -- Research. (LCSH)

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Ubaa Atmosfärens sammansättning, struktur och mekanik

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