[HTML][HTML] 21st century climate change in the European Alps—A review

A Gobiet, S Kotlarski, M Beniston, G Heinrich… - Science of the total …, 2014 - Elsevier
Reliable estimates of future climate change in the Alps are relevant for large parts of the
European society. At the same time, the complex Alpine region poses considerable …

Mediterranean water resources in a global change scenario

JM García-Ruiz, JI López-Moreno… - Earth-Science …, 2011 - Elsevier
Mediterranean areas of both southern Europe and North Africa are subject to dramatic
changes that will affect the sustainability, quantity, quality, and management of water …

More green and less blue water in the Alps during warmer summers

T Mastrotheodoros, C Pappas, P Molnar… - Nature Climate …, 2020 - nature.com
Climate change can reduce surface-water supply by enhancing evapotranspiration in
forested mountains, especially during heatwaves. We investigate this 'drought paradox'for …

Recent waning snowpack in the Alps is unprecedented in the last six centuries

M Carrer, R Dibona, AL Prendin, M Brunetti - Nature Climate Change, 2023 - nature.com
Snow cover in high-latitude and high-altitude regions has strong effects on the Earth's
climate, environmental processes and socio-economic activities. Over the last 50 years, the …

High-resolution palaeoclimatology of the last millennium: a review of current status and future prospects

PD Jones, KR Briffa, TJ Osborn, JM Lough… - The …, 2009 - journals.sagepub.com
This review of late-Holocene palaeoclimatology represents the results from a
PAGES/CLIVAR Intersection Panel meeting that took place in June 2006. The review is in …

Signals of range expansions and contractions of vascular plants in the high Alps: observations (1994–2004) at the GLORIA* master site Schrankogel, Tyrol, Austria

H Pauli, M Gottfried, K Reiter, C Klettner… - Global change …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
High mountain ecosystems are defined by low temperatures and are therefore considered to
react sensitively to climate warming. Responding to observed changes in plant species …

Impacts of the 2003 and 2015 summer heatwaves on permafrost-affected rock-walls in the Mont Blanc massif

L Ravanel, F Magnin, P Deline - Science of the Total Environment, 2017 - Elsevier
Rockfall is one of the main geomorphological processes that affects the evolution and
stability of rock-walls. At high elevations, rockfall is largely climate-driven, very probably …

Projections of extreme precipitation events in regional climate simulations for Europe and the Alpine Region

J Rajczak, P Pall, C Schär - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Regional climate models (RCMs) from the ENSEMBLES project are analyzed to assess
projected changes in 21st century heavy and extreme precipitation events over Europe. A …

Five hundred years of gridded high-resolution precipitation reconstructions over Europe and the connection to large-scale circulation

A Pauling, J Luterbacher, C Casty, H Wanner - Climate dynamics, 2006 - Springer
We present seasonal precipitation reconstructions for European land areas (30° W to 40°
E/30–71° N; given on a 0.5°× 0.5° resolved grid) covering the period 1500–1900 together …

Glacier shrinkage in the Alps continues unabated as revealed by a new glacier inventory from Sentinel-2

F Paul, P Rastner, RS Azzoni, G Diolaiuti… - Earth System …, 2019 - essd.copernicus.org
The on-going glacier shrinkage in the Alps requires frequent updates of glacier outlines to
provide an accurate database for monitoring or modeling purposes (eg determination of run …