Atlantic influence on spring snowfall over the Alps in the past 150 years

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Zampieri, Matteo ^a   Scoccimarro, Enrico ^a,b   Gualdi, Silvio ^a,b  

^a CENTRO EURO MEDITERRANEO SUI CAMBIAMENTI CLIMATICI   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; GLOBAL WARMING;

CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIOS; GAS CONCENTRATION; LARGE-SCALE CIRCULATION; LONG-TERM TREND; LOW FREQUENCY VARIABILITY; LOW-FREQUENCY VARIATIONS; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; PERIODIC FLUCTUATIONS;

SNOW;

ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATION; DECADAL VARIATION; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GAS; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; PERIODICITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SNOW COVER; SNOWLINE; SPRING (SEASON); TREND ANALYSIS; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

ALPS;

EID: 84885601182     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/8/3/034026     Document Type: Article

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