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Climate Variability and Change in High Elevation Regions: Past, Present & Future

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Editors:
  1. Henry F. Diaz

    1. Climate Diagnostics Center, Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, NOAA, Boulder, USA

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Part of the book series: Advances in Global Change Research (AGLO, volume 15)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Climate Variability and Change in High Elevation Regions: Past, Present and Future

    • Henry F. Diaz, Martin Grosjean, Lisa Graumlich
    Pages 1-4

  3. Climatic Change in Mountain Regions: A Review of Possible Impacts

    • Martin Beniston
    Pages 5-31

  4. Variability of Freezing Levels, Melting Season Indicators, and Snow Cover for Selected High-Elevation and Continental Regions in the Last 50 Years

    • Henry F. Diaz, Jon K. Eischeid, Chris Duncan, Raymond S. Bradley
    Pages 33-52

  5. Comparison of Lower-Tropospheric Temperature Climatologies and Trends at Low and High Elevation Radiosonde Sites

    • Dian J. Seidel, Melissa Free
    Pages 53-74

  6. 20th Century Climate Change in the Tropical Andes: Observations and Model Results

    • Mathias Vuille, Raymond S. Bradley, Martin Werner, Frank Keimig
    Pages 75-99

  7. The Impact that Elevation has on the ENSO Signal in Precipitation Records from the Gulf of Alaska Region

    • G. W. K. Moore, Keith Alverson, Gerald Holdsworth
    Pages 101-121

  8. The Health of Glaciers: Recent Changes in Glacier Regime

    • Mark F. Meier, Mark B. Dyurgerov, Gregory J. McCabe
    Pages 123-135

  9. Tropical Glacier and Ice Core Evidence of Climate Change on Annual to Millennial Time Scales

    • Lonnie G. Thompson, Ellen Mosley-Thompson, M. E. Davis, P-N. Lin, K. Henderson, T. A. Mashiotta
    Pages 137-155

  10. Glaciers and Climate in the Andes between the Equator and 30° S: What is Recorded under Extreme Environmental Conditions?

    • U. Schotterer, M. Grosjean, W. Stichler, P. Ginot, C. Kull, H. Bonnaveira et al.
    Pages 157-175

  11. Large-Scale Temperature Changes Across the Southern Andes: 20th-Century Variations in the Context of the Past 400 Years

    • Ricardo Villalba, Antonio Lara, José A. Boninsegna, Mariano Masiokas, Silvia Delgado, Juan C. Aravena et al.
    Pages 177-232

  12. Frequency-Dependent Climate Signal in Upper and Lower Forest Border Tree Rings in the Mountains of the Great Basin

    • Malcolm K. Hughes, Gary Funkhouser
    Pages 233-244

  13. Upper Yellowstone River Flow and Teleconnections with Pacific Basin Climate Variability during the Past Three Centuries

    • Lisa J. Graumlich, Michael F. J. Pisaric, Lindsey A. Waggoner, Jeremy S. Littell, John C. King
    Pages 245-262

  14. Taking the Pulse of Mountains: Ecosystem Responses to Climatic Variability

    • Daniel B. Fagre, David L. Peterson, Amy E. Hessl
    Pages 263-282

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 283-283
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About this book

Glaciers in the Andes are particularly important natural archives of present and past climatic and environmental changes, in significant part because of the N-S trend of this topographic barrier and its influence on the atmospheric circulation of the southern hemisphere. Strong gradients in the seasonality and amount of precipitation exist between the equator and 30° S. Large differences in amount east and west of the Andean divide also occur, as well as a change from tropical summer precipitation (additionally modified by the seasonal shift of the circulation belts) to winter precipitation in the west wind belt (e. g. , Yuille, 1999; Garraud and Aceituno, 2001). The so-called 'dry axis' lies between the tropical and extra­ tropical precipitation regimes (Figure 1). The high mountain desert within this axis responds most sensitively to the smallest changes in effective moisture. An important hydro-meteorological feature on a seasonal to inter-annual time-scale is the occurrence of EN SO events, which strongly control the mass balance of glaciers in this area (e. g. , Wagnon et ai. , 2001; Francou et ai. , in press). The precipitation pattern is an important factor for the interpretation of climatic and environmental records extracted from ice cores, because much of this information is related to conditions at the actual time of precipitation, and this is especially so for stable isotope records. Several ice cores have recently been drilled to bedrock in this area. From Huascanin (Thompson et ai. , 1995), Sajama (Thompson et ai.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Climate Diagnostics Center, Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, NOAA, Boulder, USA

    Henry F. Diaz

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Climate Variability and Change in High Elevation Regions: Past, Present & Future

  • Editors: Henry F. Diaz

  • Series Title: Advances in Global Change Research

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-1252-7

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2003

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-1386-7Published: 31 July 2003

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-6322-9Published: 22 October 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-015-1252-7Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1574-0919

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-1621

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 283

  • Number of Illustrations: 112 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour

  • Additional Information: Reprinted from CLIMATIC CHANGE, 59:1-2

  • Topics: Atmospheric Sciences, Climate Change, Environmental Management

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