Snow variability in the Swiss Alps 1864-2009

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 33, Issue 15, 2013, Pages 3162-3173

  Scherrer, Simon C ^a   Wüthrich, Christian ^a,b   Croci Maspoli, Mischa ^a   Weingartner, Rolf ^c   Appenzeller, Christof ^a  

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

^b Amt für Umweltschutz Kanton Uri   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Alps; Climate change indicator; Decadal variability; Long series; New snow; Reconstruction; Seasonal changes; Snow day; Snow fall; Snow pack; Switzerland; Trends

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ALPS; CLIMATE CHANGE INDICATORS; DECADAL VARIABILITY; LONG SERIES; SEASONAL CHANGES; SNOW PACKS; SWITZERLAND; TRENDS;

SNOW;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DECADAL VARIATION; RECONSTRUCTION; SNOW; SNOW COVER; SNOWPACK; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS; WINTER;

SWISS PLATEAU; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84897088290     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.3653     Document Type: Article

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