Ground surface temperature scenarios in complex high-mountain topography based on regional climate model results

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Salzmann, Nadine ^a   Nötzli, Jeannette ^a   Hauck, Christian ^b   Gruber, Stephan ^a,c   Hoelzle, Martin ^a   Haeberli, Wilfried ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^c Campus Technolac Savoie Mont Blanc University   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CRYOSPHERE; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; PERMAFROST; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EID: 34548349090     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006JF000527     Document Type: Article

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