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December 19, 2019 05:30 pm
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/3r41vZ_jTN4/whats-it-like-to-install-a-weather-station-at-the-top-of-the-world
What's it Like To Install a Weather Station at the Top of the World?
An anonymous reader shares a report: Earlier this year, researchers installed the world's highest weather station on the upper reaches of Mount Everest. The roughly 50-kilogram station, taller than a person, is one of five on and near the mountain that are collecting data about jet steam winds and warming conditions in High Mountain Asia, a region jam-packed with the most glaciers outside of Earth's poles. Tom Matthews, a climate scientist at Loughborough University in the United Kingdom, and Paul Mayewski, a glaciologist at the University of Maine in Orono, were part of the record-setting expedition. Matthews presented some of the group's results last week here at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union. The two researchers chatted with Science about working at extreme altitudes, the power of body heat, and dealing with crowds on one of the world's most dangerous mountains.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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