21st century climate change in the European Alps-A review

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 493, Issue , 2014, Pages 1138-1151

  Gobiet, Andreas ^a   Kotlarski, Sven ^b   Beniston, Martin ^c   Heinrich, Georg ^a   Rajczak, Jan ^b   Stoffel, Markus ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Alpine region; Climate change; Drought; Extremes; Natural hazards; Snow

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; SNOW;

ALPINE REGIONS; EXTREMES; NATURAL HAZARD;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

RUNOFF;

AIR POLLUTION; ALPINE TUNDRA; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEGLACIATION; DROUGHT; EUROPE; FLOODING; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HUMIDITY; LANDSLIDE; PERMAFROST; PRECIPITATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SNOW COVER; WIND;

EID: 84904740218     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.07.050     Document Type: Article

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