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
• Other Authors: Biogéosciences UMR 6282 (BGS), Université de Bourgogne (UB)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Théoriser et modéliser pour aménager (UMR 6049) (ThéMA), Université de Bourgogne (UB)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Franche-Comté (UFC), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté COMUE (UBFC)-Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté COMUE (UBFC), ANR-14-CE03-0006,VIP-Mont-Blanc,VItesses des Processus contrôlant les évolutions morphologiques et environnementales du massif du Mont Blanc(2014)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2019
• Subjects: [SHS.GEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Geography; [SDU.STU.CL]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Climatology; Mont Blanc; permafrost
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-02074047; https://hal.science/hal-02074047/document; https://hal.science/hal-02074047/file/2019_Pohl_Joly%20et%20al.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-41398-5

International audience Mountains are a sensitive indicator of climate change and these areas are an early glimpse of whatcould happen in lowland environments. Peaking at 4808 m asl, the Mont-Blanc summit, at the boundarybetween France and Italy, is the highest of the Alps, in Western Europe. Its Mas...