书目名称 | The Patagonian Icefields | 副标题 | A Unique Natural Lab | 编辑 | Gino Casassa,Francisco V. Sepúlveda,Rolf M. Sincla | 视频video | | 丛书名称 | Series of the Centro De Estudios Científicos | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | The majesty of the icefields is beyond description. He who has been fortunate to be there once, remains bound forever. To a theoretical physicist working on black holes the icefields produce a familiar vertigo, the instinctive certainty of being confronted with something so simple and beautifully extreme that it must be of importance. The meeting whose proceedings are contained in this volume was conducted onboard of a vessel that went to the icefields, and the participants could literally set foot on them. It was expected that, for those who had not been there before, this would constitute a ritual of initiation. And so it did. For this reason we like to refer to the meeting as an expedition because, although it did not have the hardship, it had the spirit. After this foundational expedition there have been two others, this time both with spirit and hardship, one from Chile and one from Argentina. At the moment of this writing, a fourth, full-fledged airborne expedition to the icefields is about to depart from Valdivia. Many of the people of many nations who were on board of the Aquiles will take part in it. We look forward to its results, and to an ongoing exciting scientific adv | 出版日期 | Book 2002 | 关键词 | Aerosol; Paleoclimatology; atmospheric chemistry; bacteria; climate; climatology; ecosystem; environment; mi | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0645-4 | isbn_softcover | 978-1-4613-5174-0 | isbn_ebook | 978-1-4615-0645-4Series ISSN 1571-571X | issn_series | 1571-571X | copyright | Springer Science+Business Media New York 2002 |
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