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Climate Change and Utah Ski Resorts: Impacts, Perceptions, and Adaptation Strategies
Mountain Research and Development, 2021 Climate change is a threat to ski resorts, the ski industry, and mountain communities that rely on ski tourism. Ski resorts may be able to mitigate some of the social and economic impacts caused by climate change with proactive adaptation strategies ...
Emily J. Wilkins +7 more
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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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Technology on Snow and Ice: Innovation, Monitoring, and Performance for the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026. [PDF]
Scand J Med Sci SportsABSTRACT Elite performance in Olympic winter sports depends on the interplay among the athlete, equipment, and the snow or ice. This naturally evolves with temperature, humidity, wind, preparation, and contact between the equipment and its surface. Together, these factors continuously rebalance the forces of gravity, aerodynamic drag, and friction ...
Almqvist A +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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Snowmaking in a warmer climate: an in-depth analysis of future water demands for the ski resort Andermatt-Sedrun-Disentis (Switzerland) in the twenty-first century. [PDF]
Int J Biometeorol, 2022 Rising air temperatures threaten the snow reliability of ski resorts. Most resorts rely on technical snowmaking to compensate lacking natural snow. But increased water consumption for snowmaking may cause conflicts with other sectors' water uses such as ...
Vorkauf M +3 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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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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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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