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Thin ice : unlocking the secrets of climate in the world's highest mountains / Mark Bowen.
Van Pelt Library QC879.59 .B69 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bowen, Mark (Mark Stander)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Upper atmosphere--Observations.
- Upper atmosphere.
- Climatic changes--Research.
- Climatic changes.
- Climatology.
- Research.
- Tropics--Climate--Research.
- Tropics.
- Climatology--Research.
- Physical Description:
- 463 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Henry Holt, 2005.
- Contents:
- The mountain God
- An island in the sky
- Where next?
- Beginnings
- A decade on Quelccaya
- First signs
- The great experiment
- Temperature follows suit
- China opens up
- A city by a lake
- The seesaw
- Casting about
- From Tibet
- to Peru
- Altering the course of thinking
- Pushing back the bar
- Solving the mercer problem
- Endurance and tragedy on Dasuopu
- Scratching the surface
- Drilling deeper
- The story in the snows.
- Notes:
- "A John Macrae book."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [423]-443) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0805064435
- OCLC:
- 58386288
- Publisher Number:
- 9780805064438
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