Climatic Change at High Elevation Sites

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vi

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2. Climatic Change at High Elevation Sites: An Overview

   • M. Beniston, H. F. Diaz, R. S. Bradley

   Pages 1-19

3. Temperature Variations During the Last Century at High Elevation Sites

   • Henry F. Diaz, Raymond S. Bradley

   Pages 21-47

4. Variations of Snow Depth and Duration in the Swiss Alps Over the Last 50 Years: Links to Changes in Large-Scale Climatic Forcings

   • Martin Beniston

   Pages 49-68

5. Decadal Variations in Climate Associated with the North Atlantic Oscillation

   • James W. Hurrell, Harry Van Loon

   Pages 69-94

6. 20Th-Century Changes of Temperature in the Mountain Regions of Central Europe

   • Rudolf O. Weber, Peter Talkner, Ingeborg Auer, Reinhard Böhm, Marjana Gajić-Čapka, Ksenija Zaninović et al.

   Pages 95-112

7. A Critical Examination of the Precipitation Records at the Pic Du Midi Observatory, Pyrenees, France

   • J. Dessens, A. Bücher

   Pages 113-121

8. Regional Dependency of Precipitation-Altitude Relationship in the Swiss Alps

   • Boris Sevruk

   Pages 123-137

9. Climatic Change and Debris Flows in High Mountain Regions: The Case Study of the Ritigraben Torrent (Swiss Alps)

   • Martine Rebetez, Ralph Lugon, Pierre-Alain Baeriswyl

   Pages 139-157

10. Glacial Varve Thickness and 127 Years of Instrumental Climate Data: A Comparison

    • Christian Ohlendorf, Frank Niessen, Helmut Weissert

    Pages 159-179

11. Regional Snowfall Patterns in the High, Arid Andes

    • Mathias Vuille, Caspar Ammann

    Pages 181-191

12. Recent Trends in Tree-Ring Records from High Elevation Sites in the Andes of Northern Patagonia

    • Ricardo Villalba, Jose A. Boninsegna, Thomas T. Veblen, Andrea Schmelter, Sigfrido Rubulis

    Pages 193-222

13. Developing a Proxy Climate Record for the Last 300 Years in the Canadian Rockies — Some Problems and Opportunities

    • Brian H. Luckman

    Pages 223-244

14. A Changing Temperature Response with Elevation for Lagarostrobos Franklinii in Tasmania, Australia

    • B. M. Buckley, E. R. Cook, M. J. Peterson, M. Barbetti

    Pages 245-266

15. Research Strategies in Dendroecology and Dendroclimatology in Mountain Environments

    • L. Tessier, F. Guibal, F. H. Schweingruber

    Pages 267-285

16. Isotope Records from Mongolian and Alpine Ice Cores as Climate Indicators

    • U. Schotterer, K. Fröhlich, H. W. Gäggeler, S. Sandjordj, W. Stichler

    Pages 287-298

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. Other books which focus on environmental change in mountains focus more generally on the impacts of this change on mountain systems, rather than on the regional features of climatic change itself. The book enters into a high level of detail concerning results of international investigations which involve specialists from numerous climate-related disciplines. The book can be used in an academic and research context, for advanced graduate and doctoral students, as well as researchers working in various domains of relevance to climatic change issues. The book also has relevance in the context of future activities of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), in terms of providing up-to-date knowledge of fundamental mechanisms and consequences of climatic change in mountain regions.

• Climatology
• Precipitation
• Scale
• Snow
• climate change
• environmental change
• temperature

` ... 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)

• NOAA/ERL/LDC, Boulder, USA

  Henry F. Diaz

• Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA

  Martin Beniston

• Institute of Geography, Pérolles, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland

  Raymond S. Bradley

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