Nature Communications (Sep 2022)

Black carbon and dust alter the response of mountain snow cover under climate change

  • Marion Réveillet,
  • Marie Dumont,
  • Simon Gascoin,
  • Matthieu Lafaysse,
  • Pierre Nabat,
  • Aurélien Ribes,
  • Rafife Nheili,
  • Francois Tuzet,
  • Martin Ménégoz,
  • Samuel Morin,
  • Ghislain Picard,
  • Paul Ginoux

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32501-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Black carbon and dust deposition advanced the end of the snow season by 17 days on average over the last 40 years in the French Alps and the Pyrenees. The warming-induced snow cover decline was partly offset by decreases in black carbon deposition observed since the 1980s.