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Recent advances in mountain climate research

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The paper provides a brief overview of recent advances in selected areas of mountain climate research. It addresses the contrasting vertical precipitation gradients in the Alps and in central Asia, snow line in the Alps, orographic precipitation in North America, the Mesoscale Alpine Programme wind studies, automatic weather stations in mountains, satellite remote sensing of glacier changes, and temperature change at high elevations. The evidence for altitudinal differences in the temperature response to recent warming is discussed.

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Acknowledgments

I am grateful to Dr. Wolfgang Schöner for the invitation to present a review talk at the International Conference on Climate Change in High Mountain Regions on the occasion of the 125th Anniversary of the Sonnblick Observatory. I also thank Dr. Ernest Rudel for comments that led to the improvement of the paper.

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Barry, R.G. Recent advances in mountain climate research. Theor Appl Climatol 110, 549–553 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-012-0695-x

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