Articles | Volume 14, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2909-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2909-2020
Research article
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04 Sep 2020
Research article |  | 04 Sep 2020

Anthropogenic climate change versus internal climate variability: impacts on snow cover in the Swiss Alps

Fabian Willibald, Sven Kotlarski, Adrienne Grêt-Regamey, and Ralf Ludwig

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision
ED: Publish subject to revisions (further review by editor and referees) (15 Jun 2020) by Jürg Schweizer
AR by Fabian Willibald on behalf of the Authors (15 Jun 2020)
ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (15 Jun 2020) by Jürg Schweizer
RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (24 Jun 2020)
RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (25 Jun 2020)
ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (10 Jul 2020) by Jürg Schweizer
AR by Fabian Willibald on behalf of the Authors (13 Jul 2020)  Author's response   Manuscript 

Post-review adjustments

AA: Author's adjustment | EA: Editor approval
AA by Fabian Willibald on behalf of the Authors (01 Sep 2020)   Author's adjustment   Manuscript
EA: Adjustments approved (02 Sep 2020) by Jürg Schweizer
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Short summary
Climate change will significantly reduce snow cover, but the extent remains disputed. We use regional climate model data as a driver for a snow model to investigate the impacts of climate change and climate variability on snow. We show that natural climate variability is a dominant source of uncertainty in future snow trends. We show that anthropogenic climate change will change the interannual variability of snow. Those factors will increase the vulnerabilities of snow-dependent economies.