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Articles | Volume 20, issue 4
Articles | Volume 20, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-2209-2026
© Author(s) 2026. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-2209-2026
© Author(s) 2026. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 20, issue 4
Research article
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23 Apr 2026
Research article |  | 23 Apr 2026

Greek mountain snow cover halved in past four decades due to regional warming

Konstantis Alexopoulos, Ian C. Willis, Hamish D. Pritchard, Giorgos Kyros, Vassiliki Kotroni, and Konstantinos Lagouvardos

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Our research shows that Greece's highest mountains have lost half of their winter snow over the past four decades. Using a new model that reconstructs daily snow cover from satellite and climate data, we found a rapid and widespread decline driven mainly by rising temperatures. These changes fall outside the natural variability of the climate and highlight growing risks for water resources in Mediterranean mountain regions, due to snow droughts.
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