Huge decrease of frost frequency in the Mont-Blanc Massif under climate change

• Published in: Scientific Reports
• Main Authors: Pohl, Benjamin, Joly, Daniel, Pergaud, Julien, Buoncristiani, Jean-François, Soare, Paul, Berger, Alexandre
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Publishing Group UK 2019
• Subjects: Article; Mont Blanc; permafrost
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6427016/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30894642; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-41398-5

Mountains are a sensitive indicator of climate change and these areas are an early glimpse of what could happen in lowland environments. Peaking at 4808 m asl, the Mont-Blanc summit, at the boundary between France and Italy, is the highest of the Alps, in Western Europe. Its Massif is world-famous f...