Disappearing “alpine tundra” Koppen climatic type in the western United

• Main Authors: Henry F. Diaz, Jon K. Eischeid
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: Koppen; Tundra
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.560.828; http://www.colorado.edu/geography/class_homepages/geog_4430_s09/Diaz_WarmingAlpineTundra_GRL2007.pdf

[1] We examine changes in the areal extent of the Köppen ‘‘alpine tundra’ ’ climate classification type for the mountainous western United States following the work of Kottek et al. (2006). We find a significant decline in the area occupied by this climate category. In the early decades of the 20th...