The European mountain cryosphere: A review of past, current and future issues
| Autor: | Mohammed Naaim, Johann Stötter, Matthias Huss, Delphine Six, C. Vincent, Erika Coppola, Christoph Marty, Christian Hauck, Liss M. Andreassen, Martin Beniston, Antonello Provenzale, Michael Lehning, Hendrik Huwald, Silvia Terzago, J. I. López-Moreno, Ulrich Strasser, Adriano Fantini, Florie Giacona, Daniel Farinotti, Enrique Morán-Tejeda, Jan Magnusson, Samuel Morin, Markus Stoffel, Nicolas Eckert, Antoine Rabatel |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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geography
geography.geographical_feature_category 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences business.industry Global climate 0208 environmental biotechnology Environmental resource management Context (language use) Glacier 02 engineering and technology Permafrost 01 natural sciences 020801 environmental engineering Current (stream) Environmental science Cryosphere Physical geography business 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Popis: | The mountain cryosphere is recognized to have important impacts on a range of environmental processes. This paper reviews current knowledge on snow, glacier, and permafrost processes, as well as their past, current and future evolution in mountain regions in mainland Europe. We provide a comprehensive assessment of the current state of cryosphere research in Europe and point to the different domains requiring further research to improve our understanding of climate–cryosphere interactions, cryosphere controls on physical and biological mountain systems, as well as related impacts. We highlight advances in the modeling of the cryosphere, and identify inherent uncertainties in our capability of projecting changes in the context of a warming global climate. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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