The impact of global warming on winter tourism and skiing: a regionalised model for Austrian snow conditions

Breiling, Meinhard; Charamza, Pavel

doi:10.1007/s101130050003

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“…In Estonia, a time series of snow cover over 104 years duration showed a negative trend with periodical fluctuations (Jaagus, 1997). In the French, Swiss and Austrian Alps, a decrease in snow depth and snow cover has also been detected, especially in the lower and southern areas of the range (Martin et al, 1994;Breiling & Charmanza, 1999;Beniston, 2003;Beniston et al, 2003).…”

Section: Trends In Spring and Winter Dischargementioning

confidence: 97%

Influence of snow accumulation and snowmelt on streamflow in the central Spanish Pyrenees / Influence de l’accumulation et de la fonte de la neige sur les écoulements dans les Pyrénées centrales espagnoles

López‐Moreno

García‐Ruiz

2004

Hydrological Sciences Journal

113

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Results of studies related to the effect of snow accumulation and snowmelt on river regimes of the central Spanish Pyrenees are presented. Streamflow of the Pyrenean rivers is characterized by low and constant discharges during winter because of accumulation of snow in the basins above 1600 m a.s.l., and high and fluctuating discharges during spring due to snowmelt and rainfall. Regional discharge contrasts have been assessed in relation to the Atlantic influence and the percentage of high altitude areas in each basin. In most of the Pyrenean basins, snowmelt contributes more to the discharge than rainfall in the spring. The analysis of data shows a decrease in winter precipitation in the last 50 years causing a decrease in both winter and spring discharges and introducing changes in the distribution of streamflow throughout the year.

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Section: Trends In Spring and Winter Dischargementioning

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Influence of snow accumulation and snowmelt on streamflow in the central Spanish Pyrenees / Influence de l’accumulation et de la fonte de la neige sur les écoulements dans les Pyrénées centrales espagnoles

López‐Moreno

García‐Ruiz

2004

Hydrological Sciences Journal

113

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“…La mayoría de estos estudios se han centrado en los Alpes (König & Abegg, 1997;Breiling & Charamza, 1999;Elsasser & Bürki, 2002 A pesar de las limitaciones y la heterogeneidad de metodologías utilizadas, la mayoría de estos estudios son congruentes en señalar que en el futuro, el cambio climático conllevará a un impacto negativo en la duración de la temporada de esquí, la reducción de zonas esquiables y una disminución del número de esquiadores tanto en estaciones de baja altitud como de baja latitud por ello el principal objetivo de este trabajo es analizar la rentabilidad y situación financiera de las principales estaciones de esquí alpino catalanas, con el fin de comprobar si éstas son sostenibles desde un punto de vista económico.…”

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Sostenibilidad económica y situación financiera de las estaciones de esquí alpino del Pirineo catalán

Pulido¹,

Ramón

Fransi³

2016

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ResumenObjeto: El presente artículo tiene como objetivo analizar la rentabilidad y la situación financiera de las principales estaciones de esquí alpino catalanas, con el fin de comprobar si éstas son sostenibles desde un punto de vista económico, teniendo en cuenta los factores externos que le afectan.Diseño/metodología/enfoque: Con el fin de realizar el estudio de rentabilidad y situación financiera, se obtuvieron los estados financieros de las principales estaciones de esquí Alpino del Pirineo Catalán: Baqueira-Beret, Masella, Boí Taüll, Vallter 2000, La Molina, Vall de Núria y Espot Esquí-Port Ainé, para los períodos comprendidos entre 2011-2014 y se procedió a aplicar una serie de ratios económicos y de estructura con el fin de establecer un diagnóstico sobre su situación. Aportaciones y resultados: Los resultados ponen de manifiesto que las estaciones deBaqueira-Beret y Masella son las únicas que obtienen beneficios, mientras que el resto de estaciones obtienen pérdidas en todos los períodos analizados. Respecto a la situación financiera, los resultados revelan que el nivel de endeudamiento de las estaciones es, en general reducido, llegando a la conclusión de que la mayoría de ellas no son sostenibles desde un punto de vista estrictamente económico.-1451-

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“…Since then, the principle winter tourism regions of the world have been analyzed, including the European Alps (Breiling and Charamza 1999;Elsasser and Bürki 2002;König and Abegg 1997;Steiger 2010Steiger , 2012Steiger and Mayer 2008;Uhlmann et al 2009;Endler and Matzarakis 2011), Canada (Scott et al 2003(Scott et al , 2006, USA Scott 2007 2010;Dawson et al 2009;Nolin and Daly 2006;Scott et al 2008), Sweden (Moen and Fredman 2007), Australia (Hennessy et al 2003(Hennessy et al , 2009(Hennessy et al , 2011Bicknell and McManus 2006), Japan (Fukushima et al 2002) or New Zealand (Hendrikx et al 2013). Some of these studies primarily focus on the supply-side impacts (ski operations), model simply natural snow conditions at ski resorts (Uhlmann et al 2009), or apply indicators that are not relevant to skiarea operations, such as 'snow cover', defined as 2.5 cm of snow (Lamothe and Périard 1988), when in fact ski operators require 30-100 cm of snow to open a ski run.…”

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The vulnerability of Pyrenean ski resorts to climate-induced changes in the snowpack

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López‐Moreno²,

Rosas-Casals

et al. 2015

Climatic Change

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Abstract: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. Although the Pyrenees has the largest ski area in Europe after the Alps, there are few detailed climate-change vulnerability assessments on the ski resorts based in this region. This paper analyzes the vulnerability of the Pyrenean ski resorts to projected changes in the snowpack under various future climate scenarios. In addition, the study analyzes the sustainability of the snowmaking systems to offset the climate variability of natural snow cover. On average, the study predicts a shorter ski-season length, especially in low-altitude ski resorts in a moderate climate-change scenario and for all ski resorts in a more intensive climatechange scenario. However, a significant regional variability has been identified for the projected impacts at very short geographical distances within the studied area.Moreover, this paper shows that snowmaking cannot completely solve the problem for all ski resorts in the Pyrenees, as the measure can only act as a robust adaptation strategy in the region provided climate change is limited to +2 °C snowmaking.

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The impact of global warming on winter tourism and skiing: a regionalised model for Austrian snow conditions

Cited by 135 publications

References 3 publications

Influence of snow accumulation and snowmelt on streamflow in the central Spanish Pyrenees / Influence de l’accumulation et de la fonte de la neige sur les écoulements dans les Pyrénées centrales espagnoles

Influence of snow accumulation and snowmelt on streamflow in the central Spanish Pyrenees / Influence de l’accumulation et de la fonte de la neige sur les écoulements dans les Pyrénées centrales espagnoles

Sostenibilidad económica y situación financiera de las estaciones de esquí alpino del Pirineo catalán

The vulnerability of Pyrenean ski resorts to climate-induced changes in the snowpack

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