The changing roles of temperature and precipitation on snowpack variability in Switzerland as a function of altitude

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2131-2136

  Morán Tejeda, Enrique ^a   López Moreno, Juan Ignacio ^b   Beniston, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUTO PIRENAICO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

altitude; multiple regression; precipitation; snow depth; snow duration; temperature

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; ECONOMIC SECTORS; EXPLANATORY VARIABLES; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; MULTIPLE REGRESSIONS; RELATIVE PERFORMANCE; SNOW ACCUMULATION; SNOW DEPTHS;

EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); TEMPERATURE;

SNOW;

ALTITUDE; GLOBAL WARMING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SNOW ACCUMULATION; SNOWPACK; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; THRESHOLD; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84879920294     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50463     Document Type: Article

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