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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-565-2025
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-565-2025
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05 Feb 2025
Research article |  | 05 Feb 2025

Historical snow measurements in the central and southern Apennine Mountains: climatology, variability, and trend

Vincenzo Capozzi, Francesco Serrapica, Armando Rocco, Clizia Annella, and Giorgio Budillon

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This “journey through time” discovers historical information about snow precipitation in the Italian Apennines. In this area, in the second half of the past century, a gradual decline in snow persistence on the ground, as well as in the frequency of occurrence of snowfall events, has been observed, especially in sites located above 1000 m above sea level. The old data rescued in this study strongly enhance our knowledge about past snowfall variability and climate in the Mediterranean area.

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