Key climate indices in Switzerland; expected changes in a future climate

Climatic Change

Volumn 123, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 255-271

  Zubler, Elias M ^a   Scherrer, Simon C ^a   Croci Maspoli, Mischa ^a   Liniger, Mark A ^a   Appenzeller, Christof ^a  

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

Author keywords

ALPS; Climate change; Downscaling; Frost days; Heating degree days; Indices; Precipitation; Scenario; Summer days; Switzerland; Temperature; Tropical nights; Wet days

Indexed keywords

ALPS; DOWN-SCALING; FROST DAYS; HEATING DEGREE-DAYS; INDICES; SCENARIO; SUMMER DAYS; SWITZERLAND; TROPICAL NIGHTS; WET DAYS;

PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); SNOW; TEMPERATURE; TROPICS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DOWNSCALING; ECONOMIC IMPACT; FROST; FUTURE PROSPECT; GROWING SEASON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SOCIAL IMPACT; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WET SEASON;

ALPS; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84896710877     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-013-1041-8     Document Type: Article

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