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NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE
卷 13, 期 2, 页码 155-+出版社
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41558-022-01575-3
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Snow cover in high-latitude and high-altitude regions affects the Earth's climate, environmental processes, and socio-economic activities. The Alps have experienced a 5.6% reduction per decade in snow cover duration over the last 50 years, significantly impacting a region where winter is economically and culturally important.
Snow cover in high-latitude and high-altitude regions has strong effects on the Earth's climate, environmental processes and socio-economic activities. Over the last 50 years, the Alps experienced a 5.6% reduction per decade in snow cover duration, which already affects a region where economy and culture revolve, to a large extent, around winter. Here we present evidence from 572 ring-width series extracted from a prostrate shrub (Juniperus communis L.) growing at high elevation in the Val Ventina, Italy. These ring-width records show that the duration of current snowpack cover is 36 days shorter than the long-term mean, a decline that is unprecedented over the last six centuries. These findings highlight the urgent need to develop adaptation strategies for some of the most sensitive environmental and socio-economic sectors in this region.
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