Mountain weather and climate: A general overview and a focus on climatic change in the Alps

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 562, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 3-16

  Beniston, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Alps; Climate impacts; Climatic change

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; TOPOLOGY;

ALPS; CLIMATE IMPACTS; MOUNTAIN;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; METEOROLOGY; MOUNTAIN REGION; WEATHER;

ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 33645882555     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-005-1802-0     Document Type: Review

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