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Current Technology Situation and Research Progress of Artificial Snowmaking
Zhileng xuebao, 2021 The principle of snowmaking is simple, however the process is complex and highly dependent on environmental conditions. In recent years, to achieve the goal of "300 million people on ice and snow" and to host the "2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games" China
Liu Guoqiang +6 more
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Snowmaking in the French Alps [PDF]
Revue de géographie alpine, 2015 Snowmaking facilities have been commonplace in the French Alps since 1974 and particularly since the 1990s. Now, nearly all resorts are equipped with snowmaking facilities, which guarantee snow for skiers and sufficient revenue for resorts. The effects of climate change have justified recent investments in new facilities, and research efforts are ...
Pierre Spandre +3 more
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Snowmaking and Climate Change [PDF]
Mountain Research and Development, 2008 Winter tourism is highly sensitive to climate change. The sufficiently studied altitudinally dependent line of natural snow reliability is losing its relevance for skilift operators in Austria, where 59% of the ski area is covered by artificial snowmaking.
Robert Steiger, Marius Mayer
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Determination of snowmaking efficiency on a ski slope from observations and modelling of snowmaking events and seasonal snow accumulation [PDF]
The Cryosphere, 2017 Abstract. The production of Machine Made (MM) snow is now generalized in ski resorts and represents the most common method of adaptation for mitigating the impact of a lack of snow on skiing. Most investigations of correlations between snow conditions and the ski industry's economy focus on the production of MM snow though not one of these has taken ...
Spandre, Pierre +4 more
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Complexity, Volume 2019, Issue 1, 2019., 2019 Retractable roofs are commonly used in designing large‐span stadiums because of their versatility. However, retractable roofs are subject to sudden changes in shape, and thus, factors in addition to those considered for conventional roofs need to be taken into account.
Zhenggang Cao +3 more
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Climate Response by the Ski Industry: The Shortcomings of Snowmaking for Australian Resorts [PDF]
AMBIO, 2010 Skier numbers, and revenues for the multi-billion-dollar ski industry, are highly sensitive to snow cover. Previous research projected that under climate change, natural snow cover will become inadequate at 65% of sites in the Australian ski resorts by 2020. Resorts plan to compensate for reduced snowfall through additional snowmaking. For the six main
Pickering, Catherine Marina +1 more
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Assessing the Sustainability of Ski Fields in Southern Japan under Global Warming
Advances in Meteorology, Volume 2018, Issue 1, 2018., 2018 This is the first study in assessing the impact of climate change on Japanese ski fields with ensemble dynamical downscaling simulations. We target three ski fields in Ehime Prefecture, a southern border area for skiing in Japan. Our field survey revealed that a field located above 1200 m altitudes currently operates on natural snow supply, but those ...
Asuka Suzuki-Parker +4 more
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Measuring the Elastic Modulus of Snow
Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 44, Issue 21, Page 11,088-11,096, 16 November 2017., 2017 Abstract The elastic modulus is the most fundamental mechanical property of snow. However, literature values scatter by orders of magnitude and hitherto no cross‐validated measurements exists. To this end, we employ P wave propagation experiments under controlled laboratory conditions on decimeter‐sized snow specimen, prepared from artificial snow and ...
B. Gerling, H. Löwe, A. van Herwijnen
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Modelling investigation of water droplet evaporative freezing in artificial snowmaking [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2019 In this paper, a modelling investigation of water droplet evaporative freezing was conducted in order to better understand the snowmaking process and hence to optimise the design of the artificial snowmaking device. To this end, mass and heat transfer theoretical models of a single water droplet cooling in an air space were established and implemented ...
El Achkar Georges +3 more
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Simulated hydrological effects of grooming and snowmaking in a ski resort on the local water balance
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 2023 Abstract. The presence of a ski resort modifies the snow cover at the local scale, due to snow management practices on ski pistes, especially grooming and snowmaking. Snow management exerts 2-fold effects on the local hydrological cycle, through (i) abstraction and transfer of water used for snowmaking, and (ii) changes in water runoff due to added ...
S. Morin +9 more
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