Climate changes and their elevational patterns in the mountains of the world

NC Pepin, E Arnone, A Gobiet, K Haslinger… - Reviews of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Quantifying rates of climate change in mountain regions is of considerable interest, not least
because mountains are viewed as climate “hotspots” where change can anticipate or …

Snow and climate: Feedbacks, drivers, and indices of change

CW Thackeray, C Derksen, CG Fletcher… - Current Climate Change …, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Highlight significant developments that have recently been
made to enhance our understanding of how snow responds to climate forcing and the role …

High mountain areas

R Hock, G Rasul, C Adler, B Cáceres, S Gruber… - IPCC special report on …, 2019 - iris.unito.it
The cryosphere (including, snow, glaciers, permafrost, lake and river ice) is an integral
element of high mountain regions, which are home to roughly 10% of the global population …

Present and future water scarcity in Switzerland: Potential for alleviation through reservoirs and lakes

MI Brunner, AB Gurung, M Zappa, H Zekollari… - Science of the Total …, 2019 - Elsevier
In Alpine regions, future changes in glacier and snow cover are expected to change runoff
regimes towards higher winter but lower summer discharge. The low summer discharge will …

Drought spatial extent and dependence increase during drought propagation from the atmosphere to the hydrosphere

MI Brunner, C Chartier‐Rescan - Geophysical Research Letters, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
As droughts propagate both in time and space, their impacts increase because of changes
in drought properties. Because temporal and spatial drought propagation are mostly studied …

Why do we have so many different hydrological models? A review based on the case of Switzerland

P Horton, B Schaefli, M Kauzlaric - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Hydrology plays a central role in applied and fundamental environmental sciences, but it is
well known to suffer from an overwhelming diversity of models, particularly to simulate …

Quantification of impacts between 1.5 and 4 C of global warming on flooding risks in six countries

Y He, D Manful, R Warren, N Forstenhäusler… - Climatic Change, 2022 - Springer
We project climate change induced changes in fluvial flood risks for six global warming
levels between 1.5 and 4° C by 2100, focusing on the major river basins of six countries …

[HTML][HTML] Future streamflow regime changes in the United States: assessment using functional classification

MI Brunner, LA Melsen, AJ Newman… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2020 - hess.copernicus.org
Streamflow regimes are changing and expected to further change under the influence of
climate change, with potential impacts on flow variability and the seasonality of extremes …

Hydrological drought generation processes and severity are changing in the Alps

MI Brunner, J Götte, C Schlemper… - Geophysical Research …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Streamflow droughts are governed by different hydro‐meteorological processes, whose
relative importance may change over time, with potential impacts on drought severity. Here …

Effects of univariate and multivariate bias correction on hydrological impact projections in alpine catchments

J Meyer, I Kohn, K Stahl, K Hakala… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2019 - hess.copernicus.org
Alpine catchments show a high sensitivity to climate variation as they include the elevation
range of the snow line. Therefore, the correct representation of climate variables and their …