Monitoring climate at Jungfraujoch in the high Swiss Alpine region

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 391, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 262-268

  Appenzeller, Christof ^a   Begert, Michael ^a   Zenklusen, Evelyn ^a   Scherrer, Simon C ^b  

^a FEDERAL OFFICE OF METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATOLOGY METEOSWISS   (Switzerland)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Alpine region; Homogeneity; Jungfraujoch; Temperature; Thawing; Trends

Indexed keywords

TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THAWING;

ALPINE REGION; HOMOGENEITY; METEOROLOGICAL STATION;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HOMOGENEITY; MEASUREMENT METHOD; TEMPERATURE; TEMPORAL VARIATION; THAWING;

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EUROPE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THAWING; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WINTER;

ALTITUDE; CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; SEASONS; SWITZERLAND; TEMPERATURE;

BERN [SWITZERLAND]; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; JUNGFRAUJOCH; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 37649004942     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2007.10.005     Document Type: Article

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