Climatic Change at High Elevation Sites

✍ Scribed by M. Beniston, H. F. Diaz, R. S. Bradley (auth.), Henry F. Diaz, Martin Beniston, Raymond S. Bradley (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 296
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-vi
Climatic Change at High Elevation Sites: An Overview....Pages 1-19
Temperature Variations During the Last Century at High Elevation Sites....Pages 21-47
Variations of Snow Depth and Duration in the Swiss Alps Over the Last 50 Years: Links to Changes in Large-Scale Climatic Forcings....Pages 49-68
Decadal Variations in Climate Associated with the North Atlantic Oscillation....Pages 69-94
20Th-Century Changes of Temperature in the Mountain Regions of Central Europe....Pages 95-112
A Critical Examination of the Precipitation Records at the Pic Du Midi Observatory, Pyrenees, France....Pages 113-121
Regional Dependency of Precipitation-Altitude Relationship in the Swiss Alps....Pages 123-137
Climatic Change and Debris Flows in High Mountain Regions: The Case Study of the Ritigraben Torrent (Swiss Alps)....Pages 139-157
Glacial Varve Thickness and 127 Years of Instrumental Climate Data: A Comparison....Pages 159-179
Regional Snowfall Patterns in the High, Arid Andes....Pages 181-191
Recent Trends in Tree-Ring Records from High Elevation Sites in the Andes of Northern Patagonia....Pages 193-222
Developing a Proxy Climate Record for the Last 300 Years in the Canadian Rockies — Some Problems and Opportunities....Pages 223-244
A Changing Temperature Response with Elevation for Lagarostrobos Franklinii in Tasmania, Australia....Pages 245-266
Research Strategies in Dendroecology and Dendroclimatology in Mountain Environments....Pages 267-285
Isotope Records from Mongolian and Alpine Ice Cores as Climate Indicators....Pages 287-298

✦ Subjects

Atmospheric Sciences