A Workshop on Advances in Our Understanding of Elevation Dependent Climate Change

The workshop was designed to discuss the recent evidence and open questions on how climate change is variously affecting mountain environments and high-elevation areas. In particular, the focus was on elevational gradients of change in key meteorological and climate variables (beyond temperature) and on understanding the underlying physical processes, besides discussing their broader consequences both at high altitudes and downstream. The meeting was stimulated by developments of seminal ideas that originated in a previous international workshop on Elevation Dependent Warming (EDW) held in Payerbach, Austria, in April 2014, whose outcome had been summarized in the review paper by the Mountain Research Initiative (MRI 2015). This second workshop, aimed at reflecting further on the changing status of our knowledge since the earlier workshop, expanded the discussion to consider a more holistic appreciation of climate change as manifest in high mountains, particularly taking into account m...