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Trends in Swiss Alpine snow days: The role of local‐ and large‐scale climate variability

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Scherrer, Simon C., Appenzeller, Christof, Laternser, Martin·2004·Geophysical Research Letters

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Swiss Alpine snow cover is varying substantially on interannual to decadal time scales. In the late 20th century decreases in snow days (SD) have been observed for stations below 1300 m asl. A regression model is used in this work to quantify the importance of mean temperature and precipitation as well as large‐scale climate variability in order to explain the observed trends. Both, local‐ and large‐scale models account for a modest fraction of the observed seasonal variability. Results suggest that the recent decrease in low altitude snow cover can mainly be attributed to an increase in temperature. Differences are found for northern and southern Switzerland concerning the influence of large‐scale climate patterns. In contrast to southern Alpine regions, northern Alpine interannual SD variability is almost unaffected by the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO). Decadal trends, however, can be explained via temperature only by a model that includes the explanatory variable NAO.

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Authors
Scherrer, S. C., Appenzeller, C., & Laternser, M.
Venue
Geophysical Research Letters
Published
2004-07
Volume
31
Issue
13
ISSN
  • 0094-8276 (ISSN-L)
  • 1944-8007
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W2022489840
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225
References
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6.74
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journal article
Language
en
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Scherrer, S. C., Appenzeller, C., & Laternser, M. (2004). Trends in Swiss Alpine snow days: The role of local‐ and large‐scale climate variability. Geophysical Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1029/2004gl020255

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