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Mountain climates and climatic change: an overview of processes focusing on the european Alps

Beniston, Martin

In: Pure and Applied Geophysics, 2005, vol. 162(8-9), p. 1587

This contribution provides an overview of the intricacies of mountain climates, particularly as they pertain to the European Alps. Examples will be given of issues that are related to climatic change as observed in the Alps during the course of the 20th century, and some of the physical mechanisms that may be responsible for those changes. The discussion will then focus on the problems...

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Extreme climatic events and their evolution under changing climatic conditions

Beniston, Martin ; Stephenson, David B.

In: Global and Planetary Change, 2004, vol. 44, p. 1-9

This short introductory paper illustrates some key issues concerning extremes by focusing on daily temperature extremes defined using quantiles and threshold exceedances. The examples include both a low- and a high-elevation site in the Swiss Alps where long records of homogenous daily data are readily available. The analysis of extremes highlights several features, some of them taken from...

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