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

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

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2909-2020

Articles | Volume 14, issue 9

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2909-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2909-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 14, issue 9

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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RC1: 'Review of "Anthropogenic climate change versus internal climate variability: Impacts on Alpine snow cover" by Fabian Willibald et al.', Anonymous Referee #1, 30 Apr 2020
- AC1: 'reply to review of referee #1', Fabian Willibald, 02 Jun 2020
RC2: 'Revision comments about Anthropogenic climate change versus internal climate variability: Impacts on Alpine snow cover, Willibald et al 2020.', Anonymous Referee #2, 14 May 2020
- AC2: 'reply to review of referee #2', Fabian Willibald, 02 Jun 2020

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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

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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

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.