Impact of climate change in Switzerland on socioeconomic snow indices

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 127, Issue 3-4, 2017, Pages 875-889

  Schmucki, Edgar ^a,b   Marty, Christoph ^a   Fierz, Charles ^a   Weingartner, Rolf ^b   Lehning, Michael ^a,c  

^a WSL INSTITUTE FOR SNOW AND AVALANCHE RESEARCH SLF   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE EFFECT; MOUNTAIN REGION; SNOW COVER; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT;

SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84947424503     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-015-1676-7     Document Type: Article

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