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Summary

• In this book, readers will learn why some locations are so hot, different ways of measuring temperature, and the health risks of extreme heat. Death Valley, the Sahara, and Ethiopia are highlighted in text and on maps in this trip around the globe in search of Earth's hottest places.

Table of Contents

• Extreme heat
• Death Valley
• Why so hot?
• El Azizia, Libya
• Ground and land skin temperature
• The Lut Desert
• Timbuktu, Mali
• Dallol, Ethiopia
• Seriously hot.

Notes

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Description based on print version record.

Subjects

• Climatic extremes
• Tropics

Authors

• Witiw, Sebastian
• Gale Group

Series Titles

• Earth's most extreme places
• Gale virtual reference library
• Earth's most extreme places.

Publisher

• New York : Gareth Stevens Publishing

Call Number

• 910.0913 WIT

ISBN

• 9781482419047

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