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Winters in Greece – Climate Analysis [PDF]

E3S Web of Conferences
In old times when winter was coming, people in Greece welcomed winter and applied practical weather forecast according to the weather conditions during the 3 days period between the 4th and the 6th of December.
Kampolis Dimitrios
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Impacts of +2 °C global warming on winter tourism demand in Europe

Climate Services, 2017
Increasing temperatures and snow scarce winter seasons challenge the winter tourism industry. In this study the impacts of +2 °C global warming on winter tourism demand in Europe’s ski tourism related NUTS-3 regions are quantified.
Andrea Damm, Wouter Greuell, Oskar Landgren, Franz Prettenthaler   +3 more
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Anomalous Arctic warming linked with severe winter weather in Northern Hemisphere continents

Communications Earth & Environment
We have extended a recently developed metric that ingests United States station data—the accumulated winter season severity index—to a global indicator based on temperature and snowfall from reanalysis output.
Judah Cohen, Jennifer A. Francis, Karl Pfeiffer   +2 more
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Development of a multifactorial prediction model for commute mode choice in 10 983 Finnish public sector employees: a cross-sectional study

BMJ Open
Objective The objective of this study is to examine the feasibility of using survey data to identify factors that predict commute mode choice.Design The study design is cross-sectional.Setting Survey data from the Finnish Public Sector study (2020) were ...
Jaana I Halonen, Paula Salo, Jenni Ervasti, Kia Gluschkoff, Jaakko Airaksinen, Anna Makkonen   +5 more
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Statewide Implementation of Salt Stockpile Inventory Using LiDAR Measurements: Case Study

Remote Sensing
The state of Indiana maintains approximately 120 salt storage facilities strategically distributed across the state for winter operations. In April 2023, those facilities contained approximately 217,000 tons of salt with an estimated value of USD 21 ...
Justin Anthony Mahlberg, Haydn Malackowski, Mina Joseph, Yerassyl Koshan, Raja Manish, Zach DeLoach, Ayman Habib, Darcy M. Bullock   +7 more
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Evolution of Synoptic Systems Associated with Lake-Effect Snow Events over Northwestern Pennsylvania

Meteorology
This study investigates the synoptic conditions associated with lake-effect snow (LES) over northwestern Pennsylvania with a focus on classifying cases based on the tracks of cyclones influencing the region, including Nor’easters (NEs), Alberta Clippers (
Jake Wiley, Christopher Elcik
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SEASONAL MORTALITY PATTERNS DUE TO DISEASES OF THE CIRCULATORY SYSTEM IN PORTUGAL

Geography, Environment, Sustainability, 2015
Exposure to cold weather has negative consequences on human health. Studies have been showing that the seasonality of mortality has an evident peak during winter months in European countries.
Ricardo Almendra, Paula Santana, João Vasconcelos, Elisabete Freire   +3 more
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HEDGING BY USING WEATHER DERIVATES IN WINTER SKI TOURISM

Ekonomika Poljoprivrede (1979), 2018
Tourism, as one of the main driving forces of economic development, is exposed to many risks. Besides frequent fluctuations in foreign currency exchange, prices of fuel and transportation, the tourism industry has become more sensitive to weather ...
Bojan S. Đorđević
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Long-term prediction of the influence of sudden stratospheric warmings on the electricity consumption and wind power generation in Finland

Environmental Research Letters
Electricity consumption (EC) is highly dependent on outside temperatures in regions where electricity is used for heating, for example in northern Europe during winter.
Veera Juntunen, Mikhail Vokhmyanin, Antti Salminen, Timo Asikainen   +3 more
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Citizen science reveals waterfowl responses to extreme winter weather. [PDF]

Glob Chang Biol, 2022
Masto NM, Robinson OJ, Brasher MG, Keever AC, Blake-Bradshaw AG, Highway CJ, Feddersen JC, Hagy HM, Osborne DC, Combs DL, Cohen BS.   +10 more
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