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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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Mountain Research and Development, 2018 The objectives of this study were to examine changing snowmaking conditions in the New Hampshire White Mountains and how changes in snowmaking operations have compared with winter warming.
Geoff Wilson, Mark Green, Ken Mack
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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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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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Ski areas, weather and climate: Time series models for New England case studies [PDF]
, 2007 Wintertime warming trends experienced in recent decades, and predicted to increase in the future, present serious challenges for ski areas and whole regions that depend on winter tourism. Most research on this topic examines past or future climate-change
Brown, Cliff +2 more
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Applied Sciences, 2023 The construction of new, artificially snowed, ski slopes and the accompanying infrastructure changes the natural environment and exerts pressure on the ecosystems.
Anna Lenart-Boroń +2 more
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Dynamique de la neige de culture dans les Alpes Françaises
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.
Pierre Spandre +3 more
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Atmosphere, 2020 We used the spatially distributed and physically based snow cover model SNOWGRID-CL to derive daily grids of natural snow conditions and snowmaking potential at a spatial resolution of 1 × 1 km for Austria for the period 1961–2020 validated against ...
Marc Olefs +3 more
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The vulnerability of Pyrenean ski resorts to climate-induced changes in the snowpack [PDF]
, 2015 Winter tourism is the main source of income and the driving force of local development in many mountain areas. However, in recent years, the industry has been identified as being extremely vulnerable to future climate change.
Jover Comas, Eric +3 more
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The Impact of CO2 – Induced Warming on Downhill Skiing in the Laurentians [PDF]
, 1987 À l'aide des deux scénarios de variation climatique retenus par le Centre d'étude canadien sur le climat, les auteurs tentent de cerner quel serait l'effet, sur la pratique du ski alpin dans les basses Laurentides, des changements de température et de ...
McBoyle, Geoff, Wall, Geoff
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