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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 ...
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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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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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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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Variation of Snowmaking Hours on the Ski Slopes in the Moscow Region in Recent Years [PDF]
The 4th International Electronic Conference on Atmospheric Sciences, 2021 Ongoing climate variations and variation of winter weather conditions in recent years in the Moscow region have strongly influenced the hill skiing industry. This paper calculates snowmaking hours and their variations in recent years to enable conclusions about ongoing changes and possible consequences for the future.
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The deployment of snowmaking in the French ski tourism industry: a path development approach
Current Issues in Tourism, 2022 Many mountainous regions in Europe, including their tourism sectors, show a high degree of economic specialization. The ski tourism industry forms part of the long-standing economic success of the French Alps. Over the past 20 years, snowmaking has become a key feature of ski tourism, but future climate change will decrease its effectiveness as an ...
Berard-Chenu, Lucas +3 more
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Ecological quality of snowmaking reservoirs in the Alps and management perspectives
Aquatic SciencesAlpine freshwater ecosystems are biodiversity hotspots providing key ecosystem services. They face threats from climate change and anthropogenic activities. Snowmaking reservoirs emerged in the world in response to snow rarefaction and increasing winter tourism. Despite efforts to assess their environmental impact, our understanding of their ecological
Gerfand, Benjamin +5 more
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Winter tourism and climate change in the Pyrenees and the French Alps: relevance of snowmaking as a technical adaptation [PDF]
The Cryosphere, 2018 Abstract. 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. The present work investigated the snow reliability of 175 ski resorts in France (Alps and Pyrenees), Spain and Andorra under past and future conditions using state-
P. Spandre +9 more
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