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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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Education and Outreach for the International Polar Year [PDF]
, 2004 If the 65 educators, scientists, and media specialists who gathered at the "Bridging the Poles" workshop in Washington, D.C. last June have their way a semitrailer truck labeled "Got Snow?" would traverse the country during the International Polar Year ...
Bell, Robin E. +3 more
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Bridging the Poles: Education Linked with Research: A Report on the Workshop: 23-25 June 2004, Washington, D.C. [PDF]
, 2004 The goals of the "Bridging the Poles" workshop of June 23-25, 2004 were to define strategies to engage the next generation of polar scientists, engineers and leaders, and inspire and educate the general public.
Bell, Robin E. +3 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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Bacterial-based additives for the production of artificial snow: What are the risks to human health? [PDF]
, 2010 International audienceFor around two decades, artificial snow has been used by numerous winter sports resorts to ensure good snow cover at low altitude areas or more generally, to lengthen the skiing season.
Absi, Rafik +11 more
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Adapting to climate change : the case of snow-based tourism in Afriski, Lesotho [PDF]
, 2020 Climate change poses significant challenges to the tourism sector, with snow-based tourism particularly threatened. Snow-based tourism is largely dependent on adaptation, including snowmaking practices and product diversification.
Fitchett, Jennifer M. +3 more
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Utilization of surplus heat from snow producing machines [PDF]
, 2016 In this master thesis, four cases of snow supply have been evaluated under the condition that a 5 km track of ski conditions can be guaranteed from November to the end of April at a nordic ski arena in Granåsen, outside of Trondheim, Norway.
Vagle, Bernhard Haver
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Automating A Home Snowmaking System Using An AVR Microcontroller [PDF]
, 2017 Since its invention in the 1950s, snowmaking has been vitally important to the ski industry, lengthening season length, and bringing skiing and snowboarding to areas where it would not previously have been possible.
NC DOCKS at Appalachian State University +1 more
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