Freezing of lakes on the Swiss plateau in the period 1901-2006

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 421-433

  Hendricks Franssen, H J ^a   Scherrer, S C ^b,c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

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

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Alps; Climate change; Ice cover; Lakes; Proxy data; Swiss plateau; Switzerland; Trend analysis

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ICE; LAKES; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

CLIMATOLOGICAL FREEZING FREQUENCY; ICE COVER;

CLIMATOLOGY;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; FREEZING; ICE COVER; LAKE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; TREND ANALYSIS;

ALPS; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SWISS PLATEAU; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 41449095857     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.1553     Document Type: Article

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