Mountain Research and Development, 2011 The winter tourism industry is facing considerable challenges with climate change; it is increasingly responding with investments in snowmaking facilities. We present a study on 3 tourism destinations in the Swiss Alps that addressed resource consumption
Puetz M, Peter Bebi, Christian Rixen
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Building with Snow: Technical Exploration and Practice of Snow Materials and Snow Architecture
BuildingsFocusing on the design and construction of snow structures, this paper explores the properties of snow materials, construction methods, and operation–maintenance strategies, aiming to demonstrate how to integrate architectural functionality, aesthetics ...
Jianfeng Sun +3 more
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30-years (1991-2021) Snow Water Equivalent Dataset in the Po River District, Italy
Scientific DataThis paper presents a long-term snow water equivalent dataset in the Po River District, Italy, spanning from 1991 to 2021 at daily time step and 500 m spatial resolution partially covering the mountain ranges of Alps and Apennines.
Matteo Dall’Amico +9 more
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Winter snow as a skillful indicator for spring wildfire in Northeast Asia
npj Natural HazardsWildfire in Northeastern Asia presents significant challenges to climate, ecosystems, and socio-economic systems. Here, we investigate the influence of preceding winter snow on spring wildfires in Northeastern Asia.
Meng Meng +6 more
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Contribution to the snow protection solutions for pitched roofs [PDF]
MATEC Web of Conferences, 2017 This paper presents results of research conducted as part of doctoral dissertation. It deals with pitched roofs defects and failures caused by insufficient snow protection.
Oláh Jozef, Šida Michal
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Impact of dynamic snow density on GlobSnow snow water equivalent retrieval accuracy [PDF]
The Cryosphere, 2021 Snow water equivalent (SWE) is an important variable in describing global seasonal snow cover. Traditionally, SWE has been measured manually at snow transects or using observations from weather stations.
P. Venäläinen +5 more
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Winter tourism under climate change in the Pyrenees and the French Alps: relevance of snowmaking as a technical adaptation [PDF]
The Cryosphere, 2019 Climate change is increasingly regarded as a threat for winter tourism due to the combined effect of decreasing natural snow amounts and decreasing suitable periods for snowmaking.
P. Spandre +9 more
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Revue de Géographie Alpine, 2020 This study presents the evolution of the snow reliability in the 24 alpine ski resorts of the Isère département (Northern French Alps, around Grenoble) over the last decades and its projection into the 21st century, taking into account grooming and ...
Martin Gerbaux +4 more
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Implementing spatially and temporally varying snow densities into the GlobSnow snow water equivalent retrieval [PDF]
The Cryosphere, 2023 Snow water equivalent (SWE) is a valuable characteristic of snow cover, and it can be estimated using passive spaceborne radiometer measurements. The radiometer-based GlobSnow SWE retrieval methodology, which assimilates weather station snow depth ...
P. Venäläinen +7 more
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EVALUATING THE CONSISTENCY OF REMOTE SENSING BASED SNOW DEPTH PRODUCTS IN ARID ZONE OF WESTERN CHINA [PDF]
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2012 Snow cover is a sensitive indicator of global climate change. Among various snow cover parameters, snow depth which can indicate snow accumulation is essential for retrieving snow water equivalent.
Q. Zhou, B. Sun
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