Sensitivity of Alpine snow cover to European temperature

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1265-1275

  Hantel, Michael ^a   Hirtl Wielke, Lucia Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Alpine climate; Error function; European temperature; Logistic curve; Snow cover temperature relation; The period 1961 2000; Winter climate sensitivity

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SNOW; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ERROR FUNCTION; LOGISTIC CURVE; SNOW COVER-TEMPERATURE RELATION; WINTER CLIMATE SENSITIVITY;

CLIMATOLOGY;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SNOW COVER; WINTER;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 34548019036     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.1472     Document Type: Article

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