Shorter snow cover duration since 1970 in the swiss alps due to earlier snowmelt more than to later snow onset

Climatic Change

Volumn 139, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 637-649

  Klein, Geoffrey ^a,b   Vitasse, Yann ^a,b,c   Rixen, Christian ^c   Marty, Christoph ^c   Rebetez, Martine ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL WARMING; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS;

ANNUAL MAXIMA; DECADAL VARIABILITY; HIGH ELEVATION; HYDROLOGICAL REGIME; INTERANNUAL; METEOROLOGICAL STATION; SNOW COVER DURATIONS; SNOW COVERS;

SNOW;

ANNUAL VARIATION; DECADAL VARIATION; ELEVATION; HYDROLOGICAL REGIME; ICE THICKNESS; SNOW COVER; SNOWMELT; SNOWPACK; WARMING;

ALPS; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 85006042629     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: 15731480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-016-1806-y     Document Type: Article

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