A 2000 year long seasonal record of floods in the southern European Alps

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 15, 2013, Pages 4025-4029

  Wirth, Stefanie B ^a   Gilli, Adrian ^a   Simonneau, Anaëlle ^b,c   Ariztegui, Daniel ^d   Vannière, Boris ^e   Glur, Lukas ^f   Chapron, Emmanuel ^b   Magny, Michel ^e   Anselmetti, Flavio S ^f,g  

^a GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b BRGM   (France)

^c Laboratoire Geode   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

^f SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Alps; floods; lake sediments; natural hazard; seasonality; solar variability

Indexed keywords

ALPS; LAKE SEDIMENTS; NATURAL HAZARD; SEASONALITY; SOLAR VARIABILITY;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; LAKES; SEDIMENTS;

FLOODS;

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; CLIMATE CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; FLOOD; HISTORICAL RECORD; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION;

ALPS; EUROPE;

EID: 84880911118     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50741     Document Type: Article

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