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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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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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Living with Fantasy & Illusion: Some Thoughts Inspired by Poul Anderson\u27s \u3ci\u3eThe Queen of Air and Darkness\u3c/i\u3e [PDF]
, 2020 Meditation on archetypes and fantasy rather than a scholarly paper, this piece considers messages about the human longing for the fantastic embodied in Anderson’s novel, and the dangers of allowing archetypes to be taken as more than the illusions they ...
Ziegler, Dale
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Climate change in the Spanish ski resorts [PDF]
, 2016 Treball Final de Grau en Turisme. Codi: TU0944.
Carbajo Molina, Alejandro
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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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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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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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