Living in the mountains: Mobilities, forms of residentiality and local identities of new inhabitants of a Swiss ski resort by Andrea Friedli

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La Sacralisation littéraire et picturale de la montagne au XIXe siècle : (re)naissances et épiphanies by Françoise Dupeyron-Lafay

“…Mountains, that had been objects of indifference, fear, or even terror and loathing until the mid-18th century, became literary and pictorial subjects in their own right from the Romantic period onwards, especially in the wake of Rousseau’s La Nouvelle Héloïse (1761)—that radically changed the approach to nature—, and the first ascents of Mont Blanc in the 1780s that marked the beginning of Alpine tourism, and turned Chamonix (and later the Swiss Alps) into indispensable features of the "Grand Tour". …”
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Le toposcope et l’indicateur des alpes by Rachel Floch

“…We then focus on the Alpine indicator, a device used throughout the 19th century by tourists exploring the peaks at the heart of the Swiss Alps. We will see how these two devices, through the two types of perspectives they construct of the landscape - one military, the other contemplative and instructive – resulted in the orientation tables, which in their own way sought to reach beyond the limits of what is visible.…”
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Response of conifers to UV-B and climate in mountain areas by S.L. Bondarenko, D.A. Savchuk

“…Then, tree-ring series for the Swiss Alps in each group were generalized and decomposed into separate components: long period trends, ultraviolet-B and climatic signals. …”
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Separating snow and ice melt using water stable isotopes and glacio-hydrological modelling: towards improving the application of isotope analyses in highly glacierized catchments by T. Müller, T. Müller, M. Fischer, M. Fischer, S. N. Lane, B. Schaefli, B. Schaefli, B. Schaefli

“…These isotopic compositions are then used to estimate the seasonal shares of snow and ice melt in streamflow for the Otemma catchment in the Swiss Alps. The model leverages available meteorological station data (air temperature, precipitation and radiation), ice mass balance data and snow cover maps to model and automatically calibrate the catchment-scale snow and ice mass balances. …”
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