INDEX
| ablation, 20, 21–22, 29–30, 35, 69, 206 | |
| Adélie Land, 31, 34, 86, 98, 99, 250 | |
| Adhémar, Joseph Alphonse, 39, 49 | |
| aerosols, 72, 73, 115, 139, 170, 180–81, 183, 204, 262, 271; content of atmospheric aerosols, 116; effects of on clouds, 181; origins of, 181; radiative forcing of, 181; sulfur aerosols, 151 | |
| Africa, 44, 147, 149, 190, 222 | |
| Agassiz, Louis, 19, 37, 38 | |
| air bubbles, in the ice of Antarctica, 73–77, 103–4, 134, 143, 271; extraction of the bubbles from ice, 89–90; oxygen 18 found in, 119; relationship of nitrogen to oxygen in, 80, 126 | |
| air content, 75, 83, 116, 126, 191, 193. See also air bubbles, in the ice of Antarctica | |
| Alaska, 9, 45 | |
| albedo, 7–8, 14, 118, 161, 176, 181, 196, 206–7 | |
| Aletsch glacier, 6 | |
| Alexander I, 31 | |
| alkenones, 62 | |
| Allègre, Claude, 189, 191 | |
| Allerod period, 130 | |
| Alps, the, 20, 49, 106, 187; effects of global warming on, 222–23; French Alps, 21, 207–8; Swiss Alps, 22–23 | |
| American Academy of Sciences, 191 | |
| American Geophysical Union, 153 | |
| Amery Ice Sheet, 13, 35 | |
| ammonium, 135 | |
| Amsterdam Island, 165 | |
| Amundsen, Roald, 24 | |
| Amundsen Sea, 26 | |
| Andes, 6, 23, 78, 223; glaciers of, 105–6 | |
| Angelis, Martine de, 90 | |
| Antarctic, 32 | |
| Antarctic Peninsula, 12, 13, 34–35, 55, 109, 199 | |
| Antarctic Treaty (1959), 85, 249 | |
| Antarctica, 7, 8, 10, 18, 38, 44, 68, 71, 72, 73, 85, 107, 114, 122, 141, 147, 212, 252, 253, 273; Australian research in, 104; chronology of ice in, 79; climate of, 123–24, 128–29; contribution of to the rise in sea levels, 212, 213; cooling of, 45; deep core drilling in central Antarctica, 105; drilling in by the Japanese, 103; exploration of by the French, 86–88; glaciation of, 45; ice sheets of, 5, 12–13, 247, 261; initial exploration of, 31–32, 34; movement of ice in, 69; research conducted by Europeans in, 100; separation of from Australia, 45; sulfates in, 266–67; uncertain mass balance of, 34–36; unexplored areas of, 18; warming of, 198–200. See also Dôme C; East Antarctica; West Antarctica | |
| Anthropocene period, 247, 272–75 |
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Publication information:
Book title: The White Planet: The Evolution and Future of Our Frozen World.
Contributors: Jean Jouzel - Author, Claude Lorius - Author, Dominique Raynaud - Author, Teresa Lavender Fagan - Translator.
Publisher: Princeton University Press.
Place of publication: Princeton, NJ.
Publication year: 2013.
Page number: 291.
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