European Alps
Decay of a long-term monitored glacier: Careser Glacier(Ortles-Cevedale, European Alps)
... Careser Glacier in 1933 and from the average mass balance gradient in the period of direct mass balance measurements (5.3 mm w.e. m −1 yr −1 ), obtaining a response time of 35 yr. This volume response time is based on ...
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Saharan dust events in the European Alps: role in snowmelt and geochemical characterization
... the European Alps, a large fraction of dust reaching high moun- tains and glaciers originate from the Sahara (Haeberli, 1977; Kandler et ...the Alps are located at a distance of about 3000 km from ...
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Extrapolating glacier mass balance to the mountain-range scale: the European Alps 1900–2100
... the European Alps al- low assessing the representativeness of existing long-term monitoring programs, ...the Alps, nine series (direct glaciological method) longer than four decades are available and ...
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Modelling the future evolution of glaciers in the European Alps under the EURO-CORDEX RCM ensemble
... the European Alps play an important role in the hydrological cycle, act as a source for hydroelec- tricity and have a large touristic ...the Alps. Here, we model the future evolution of glaciers in ...
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A statistical approach to modelling permafrost distribution in the European Alps or similar mountain ranges
... We have presented an approach and statistical model de- signed to cater for the specific needs of permafrost distribu- tion estimation for entire mountain regions. Based on this, rock glacier inventories and MARST ...
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Spatial consistency and bias in avalanche forecasts – a case study in the European Alps
... the European Alps, the public is provided with regional avalanche forecasts, issued by about 30 forecast cen- ters throughout the winter, covering a spatially contiguous ...
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Permafrost distribution in the European Alps: calculation and evaluation of an index map and summary statistics
... the European Alps is of practical and sci- entific interest, and the regional estimation of its distribu- tion is described in numerous studies ...the European Alps but have been developed for ...
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Millennium-long summer temperature variations in the European Alps as reconstructed from tree rings
... We have collected a large compilation of living and his- toric wood samples from numerous well-distributed, high- elevation wood samples in the European Alps. The data extracted from the DENDRODB relational ...
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A minimal model for reconstructing interannual mass balance variability of glaciers in the European Alps
... Here, we present a minimal model of the glacier surface mass balance, and its application to reconstruct two hundred years of mass balance variability in the Alps. The aim here is not to use this reconstruction to ...
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Interannual variability of winter precipitation in the European Alps: relations with the North Atlantic Oscillation
... the European Alps requires the use of com- plete and long time series of spatially distributed monthly ...the European Alps, here considered as the region included in the rectangle having the ...
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A satellite-based snow cover climatology (1985–2011) for the European Alps derived from AVHRR data
... the European Alps, coupled with the varying altitudinal and climatic conditions, essentially influ- ences the spatial and temporal occurrence and duration of the snow ...
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The 3D conductive thermal field of the North Alpine Foreland Basin: influence of the deep structure and the adjacent European Alps
... the European Molasse Basin obtained from different studies, the described strong local temperature decrease cannot be explained based on the present-day ...the European Alps (Vosteen 2003; Ebbing ...
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Brief Communication “An inventory of permafrost evidence for the European Alps”
... Abstract. The investigation and modelling of permafrost distribution, particularly in areas of discontinuous per- mafrost, is challenging due to spatial heterogeneity, remote- ness of measurement sites and data scarcity. ...
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An assessment of landform composition and functioning with the first proglacial systems dataset of the central European Alps
... 334 3.2 Geomorphological functioning: hillslope versus fluvial processes 335 The slope threshold determined from our slope-area analysis for separating fluvially- 336 dominated and hills[r] ...
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Warming permafrost and active layer variability at Cime Bianche, Western European Alps
... (Swiss Alps) a similar situation between two boreholes 15 m apart, ascribing the lower ALT of one borehole to the higher moisture contents (and related freezing) caused by preferen- tial water flow paths from the ...
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Retrospective forecasts of the upcoming winter season snow accumulation in the Inn headwaters (European Alps)
... at alpS – Centre for Climate Change Adaptation in Innsbruck, ...K1-Centre alpS is funded through the Federal Ministry of Transport, Innovation and Technology (BMVIT), the Federal Ministry of Science, ...
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The movements of Alpine glaciers throughout the last 10,000 years as sensitive proxies of temperature and climate changes
... Southern Alps is more intense as compared to the European Alps, even though the latter reach up to considerably higher ...Southern Alps, which are under the influence of the Tasman Sea and ...
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Hydrological and meteorological aspects of floods in the Alps: an overview
... This introductory paper presents and summarises recent research on meteorological and hydrological aspects of floods in the Alps. The research activities were part of the international research project RAPHAEL ...
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The hydrological significance of mountains: from regional to global scale
... the European Alps is chosen as a first study area, revealing the hydrological relationship between mountainous and lowland regions in a well-documented ...
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Collaborative working across CETLs at Leeds Metropolitan University
... the ALPS Advisory Board. Jan has found her involvement with ALPS valuable and it has provided an excellent opportunity to discuss and share new and innovative approaches to learning and assessment in ...
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