Climate change in high-mountain regions: An international perspective and a look at the Pyrenees

Authors

  • Nerea Bilbao Barrenetxea Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3), Spain.
  • Sergio Henrique Faria Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3), Spain.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7203/metode.12.20509

Keywords:

high mountain, elevation-dependent warming, climate change, cryosphere, biodiversity hotspots, early warning systems

Abstract

High mountains are among the regions most affected by climate change. The complex network of interactions between climate, biological, and sociocultural structures in these regions is being altered by the changing climate. In this work, we try to explore the future challenges for these unique regions. We analyse why they are important and what problems they are facing in today’s climate and political scenario, with a special focus on the Pyrenees.

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Nerea Bilbao Barrenetxea, Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3), Spain.

Junior Researcher and FPI-MdM Fellow at the Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3) in Spain. She is an environmental engineer with a master's degree from the Bilbao Faculty of Engineering at the University of the Basque Country. Her speciality is atmospheric pollution and dispersion. She is currently a pre-doctoral researcher at BC3 within the Climate Modelling research group, where she is conducting research on high-mountain regions in the context of a changing climate.

Sergio Henrique Faria, Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3), Spain.

Ikerbasque Research Professor at the Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3) and Ikerbasque, the Basque Foundation for Science (Spain). He is a physicist with a PhD from the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany (2003). He is also the director of the low-temperature laboratory IzotzaLab, leader of the Physical Basis research line, and director of the Cryosphere and Climate Modelling research groups at BC3. He is the lead and a contributing author to the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) Working Group 1 (WGI), of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and editor of Journal of Glaciology (Cambridge University Press) and Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group). He has also participated in several expeditions to the most remote glaciers at the heart of Antarctica and Greenland. 

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2022-02-02

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Bilbao Barrenetxea, N., & Faria, S. H. (2022). Climate change in high-mountain regions: An international perspective and a look at the Pyrenees. Metode Science Studies Journal, (12), 115–121. https://doi.org/10.7203/metode.12.20509
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