Trends in Swiss Alpine snow days: The role of local- and large-scale climate variability

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 13, 2004, Pages

  Scherrer, Simon C ^a   Appenzeller, Christof ^a   Laternser, Martin ^b  

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

^b WSL INSTITUTE FOR SNOW AND AVALANCHE RESEARCH SLF   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; SNOW;

NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION (NAO); SEASONAL VARIABILITY; SNOW DAYS (SD);

SNOW; CLIMATE MODELS;

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; CLIMATE VARIATION; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; SNOW;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SWITZERLAND;

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; DECADAL TIMESCALE; EXPLANATORY VARIABLES; LARGE-SCALE MODELS; MEAN TEMPERATURE; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; REGRESSION MODEL; SEASONAL VARIABILITY;

EID: 4544278200     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL020255     Document Type: Article

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