Table of Contents

Climatic Change at High Elevation Sites: An Overview.- Temperature Variations During the Last Century at High Elevation Sites.- Variations of Snow Depth and Duration in the Swiss Alps over the Last 50 Years: Links to Changes in Large-Scale Climatic Forcings.- Decadal Variations in Climate Associated with the North Atlantic Oscillation.- 20th-Century Changes of Temperature in the Mountain Regions of Central Europe.- A Critical Examination of the Precipitation Records at the Pic Du Midi Observatory, Pyrenees, France.- Regional Dependency of Precipitation-Altitude Relationship in the Swiss Alps.- Climatic Change and Debris Flows in High Mountain Regions: The Case Study of the Ritigraben Torrent (Swiss Alps).- Glacial Varve Thickness and 127 Years of Instrumental Climate Data: A Comparison.- Regional Snowfall Patterns in the High, Arid Andes.- Recent Trends in Tree-Ring Records from High Elevation Sites in the Andes of Northern Patagonia.- Developing a Proxy Climate Record for the Last 300 Years in the Canadian Rockies — Some Problems and Opportunities.- A Changing Temperature Response with Elevation for Lagarostrobos Franklinii in Tasmania, Australia.- Research Strategies in Dendroecology and Dendroclimatology in Mountain Environments.- Isotope Records from Mongolian and Alpine Ice Cores as Climate Indicators.

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` ... it will be widely consulted by a broad range of specialists and should be in the library of all institutes, universities and agencies where atmospheric and ecological sciences are represented.'
The Holocene, 5:5 (1998)