Technical climate change adaptation options of the major ski resorts in Bulgaria

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dc.authorscopusid56607414400
dc.authorscopusid57189095268
dc.authorscopusid55234122000
dc.authorscopusid57193328766
dc.authorscopusid6603043882
dc.contributor.authorDemiroglu, O.C.
dc.contributor.authorTurp, M.T.
dc.contributor.authorOzturk, T.
dc.contributor.authorAn, N.
dc.contributor.authorKurnaz, M.L.
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-18T20:16:45Z
dc.date.available2024-07-18T20:16:45Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractClimate change has been and increasingly will be a major threat to the ski tourism industry, whose survival is highly dependent on the existence of snow cover of sufficient depth and duration. For this matter, it is even now more usual for the ski resorts to adapt to this issue by various measures at the technical, operational, and political levels. Technically speaking, snowmaking has become the method most used throughout the industry to combat the immediate impacts of climate change, while moving the ski areas to higher terrains has been standing out as an another option, wherever available and feasible. In this study, the aim is to project the future climatic changes in snowmaking capacity; in other words, technical snow reliability, and the moving requirements, if any, of the four major ski resorts in Bulgaria for the period of 2016-2030 with respect to the control period of 1991- 2005. For this purpose, the past and the future climatic conditions for the technical snow reliability of the ski resorts and their immediate surroundings are determined by the temperature and the relative humidity values generated and projected through the Regional Climate Model RegCM 4.4 of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) by scaling the global climate model MPI-ESM-MR of Max Planck Institute for Meteorology down to a resolution of 10 km. The model is further processed according to the recent RCP 4.5 and RCP 8.5 concentration scenarios of the IPCC. The model outputs on air temperature and relative humidity are utilized for determination of wet-bulb temperatures through psychographic conversions that ultimately provide us with thresholds for snowmaking limits. Findings display the temporal changes in the snowmaking hours of the ski resorts at various altitudinal levels calculated according to the environmental lapse rates. Such displays can guide the practitioners in considering investment lives and moving the ski resorts according to optimistic and pessimistic projections. © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/978-3-319-27905-3_6
dc.identifier.endpage88en_US
dc.identifier.isbn9783319279053
dc.identifier.isbn9783319279039
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85013123714en_US
dc.identifier.scopusqualityN/Aen_US
dc.identifier.startpage77en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27905-3_6
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11411/6244
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopusen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherSpringer International Publishingen_US
dc.relation.ispartofSustainable Mountain Regions: Challenges and Perspectives in Southeastern Europeen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryKitap Bölümü - Uluslararasıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessen_US
dc.subjectBulgariaen_US
dc.subjectClimate Changeen_US
dc.subjectClimate Modelingen_US
dc.subjectSki Area Extension/Expansionen_US
dc.subjectSnowmakingen_US
dc.titleTechnical climate change adaptation options of the major ski resorts in Bulgaria
dc.typeBook Chapter

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