Climatic Change at High Elevation Sites

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Herausgegeben von Diaz, Henry F.Beniston, MartinBradley, Raymond S.

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298 Seiten

Englisch

Springer Netherlandserschienen am01.12.2010Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1997

This book provides a unique, in-depth view of past, present and potential future climatic change in mountain regions, and in particular on the mechanisms which are responsible for this change.mehr

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KlappentextThis book provides a unique, in-depth view of past, present and potential future climatic change in mountain regions, and in particular on the mechanisms which are responsible for this change.

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ISBN/GTIN978-90-481-4890-5

ProduktartBuch

EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback

Verlag

Springer Netherlands

Erscheinungsjahr2010

Erscheinungsdatum01.12.2010

AuflageSoftcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1997

Seiten298 Seiten

SpracheEnglisch

Gewicht386 g

IllustrationenVI, 298 p.

Artikel-Nr.10264820

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GenreNaturwissenschaft/Umwelt/Technik

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Climatic Change at High Elevation Sites: An Overview.- Temperature Variations During the Last Century at High Elevation Sites.- Variations of Snow Depth and Duration in the Swiss Alps over the Last 50 Years: Links to Changes in Large-Scale Climatic Forcings.- Decadal Variations in Climate Associated with the North Atlantic Oscillation.- 20th-Century Changes of Temperature in the Mountain Regions of Central Europe.- A Critical Examination of the Precipitation Records at the Pic Du Midi Observatory, Pyrenees, France.- Regional Dependency of Precipitation-Altitude Relationship in the Swiss Alps.- Climatic Change and Debris Flows in High Mountain Regions: The Case Study of the Ritigraben Torrent (Swiss Alps).- Glacial Varve Thickness and 127 Years of Instrumental Climate Data: A Comparison.- Regional Snowfall Patterns in the High, Arid Andes.- Recent Trends in Tree-Ring Records from High Elevation Sites in the Andes of Northern Patagonia.- Developing a Proxy Climate Record for the Last 300 Years in the Canadian Rockies - Some Problems and Opportunities.- A Changing Temperature Response with Elevation for Lagarostrobos Franklinii in Tasmania, Australia.- Research Strategies in Dendroecology and Dendroclimatology in Mountain Environments.- Isotope Records from Mongolian and Alpine Ice Cores as Climate Indicators.mehr

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` ... it will be widely consulted by a broad range of specialists and should be in the library of all institutes, universities and agencies where atmospheric and ecological sciences are represented.'
The Holocene, 5:5 (1998)mehr