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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 CM, Buckley RC.
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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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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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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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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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Biodiversity in mountain soils above the treeline. [PDF]
Biol Rev Camb Philos SocABSTRACT Biological diversity in mountain ecosystems has been increasingly studied over the last decade. This is also the case for mountain soils, but no study to date has provided an overall synthesis of the current state of knowledge. Here we fill this gap with a first global analysis of published research on cryptogams, microorganisms, and fauna in ...
Praeg N +36 more
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Les impacts hydrologiques de la production de neige dans un domaine de moyenne montagne
VertigO, 2016 Artificial snowmaking is a relatively recent practice in Europe and in North America. This activity is necessary for the ski resorts to maintain and develop economic activities. However snowmaking requires large quantities of water, which are pumped from
Élodie Magnier
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A proposal for multiple reuse of urban wastewater
Journal of Water Reuse and Desalination, 2018 The present paper describes a proposal of multiple reuse of wastewater for the town of Camigliatello Silano, in the province of Cosenza, Italy. Camigliatello Silano is a locality devoted to agriculture and to both winter and summer tourism.
Mario Maiolo, Daniela Pantusa
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GEOMATIC TECHNIQUES FOR THE OPTIMIZATION OF SKI RESOURCES [PDF]
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2020 Climate change is already affecting the entire world, with extreme weather conditions such as drought, heat waves, heavy rain, floods and landslides becoming more frequent, including Europe.
I. Aicardi +6 more
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Climate Change and Adaptation Strategies of Spanish Catalan Alpine Ski Resorts
Revue de Géographie Alpine, 2020 Ski tourism in Catalonia has long been a fundamental socioeconomic asset for the Pyrenees region. However, in recent years some studies increasingly warn about the dubious future viability of most ski resorts as a result of climate change, and recommend ...
David Sauri, Joan Carles Llurdés
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