Warm winter spells in the Swiss Alps: Strong heat waves in a cold season? A study focusing on climate observations at the Saentis high mountain site
- Beniston, Martin Department of Geosciences, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
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14.01.2005
Published in:
- Geophysical Research Letters. - 2005, vol. 32, no. L01812
English
Investigations conducted for several Swiss mountain climatological sites, and in particular the Saentis high mountain site at 2,500 m above sea level, show that positive temperature anomalies during the winter season currently exceed those of all other seasons. These “heat waves” exhibit daily maximum temperature anomalies sometimes in excess of 16°C, and are observed to have increased... Show more…
- Faculty
- Faculté des sciences et de médecine
- Department
- Département de Géosciences
- Language
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- English
- Classification
- Geography
- License
- License undefined
- Identifiers
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- RERO DOC 4881
- DOI 10.1029/2004GL021478
- Persistent URL
- https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/299767