Racing against time. The only glacier in the western Pacific Warm Pool, Papua, Indonesia.
R. Dwi Susanto
Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, New York, USA
Photo taken in 8/27/2008 from an helicopter during a preliminary survey for the ice core expedition to recover and analyze ice cores and to extract and interpret their preserved climatic histories from the only glacier in the tropical western Pacific Warm Pool, Puncak Jaya in Papua-Indonesia (4,884 m above mean sea level) .
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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) (opens in a new window)Credit: R. Dwi Susanto (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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JPG
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5.7 MB
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134:89
Width
4288 px
Height
2848 px
Brand
Olympus
Model
pocket
Exposure
18 mm f/9 1/320 s ISO 200
Tint
Medium gray
Submitted
24 February 2011
Taken
27 August 2008
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