From April 2009: Dramatic Scott Pelley piece on global warming, glaciers and penguins.
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Rare Air: Observations From (Near) the Top of the World
Interesting account of research being conducted on a mountain top in Chile in an attempt to improve climate models. Example of scientists who are, quite literally, going "above and beyond" to improve our understanding of global climate change.
The Air is Rare Up There!
Science team ascends nearly to height of Everest’s base camp for atmospheric data
This week, on a mountain rising from the Chajnantor Plateau in Chile’s
Atacama Desert, researchers began a two-month effort to obtain rare and
valuable measurements from the far reaches of Earth’s atmosphere. Using
several sophisticated optical instruments called spectrometers, phase
two of the Radiative Heating in Underexplored Bands Campaign
will obtain a detailed data set of measurements in the infrared portion
of the electromagnetic spectrum. These data will ultimately improve the
mathematical formulas used to calculate energy transfer in climate
models.
Sponsored by the ARM Climate Research Facility, scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Atmospheric Environmental Research, Inc. are being joined by researchers from the University of Denver, the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, NASA’s Langley Research Center, and the Istituto di Fisica Applicata in Italy. Each organization is providing a different type of spectrometer that will allow the team to obtain simultaneous measurements from specific portions of the infrared spectrum – a first, according the study’s lead scientist.
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