Global reduction of snow cover in ski areas under climate change.

ABSTRACT: Ongoing climate change substantially alters snowfall patterns with severe but diverging consequences for global ski areas. A global assessment as well as the investigation of potential implications for mountain ecosystems is currently lacking. We quantify future trends in natural snow cover days under different climate change scenarios until 2100 in seven major global skiing regions and discuss implications for mountainous biodiversity by analysing how natural snow cover days relate to regional human population density. Within all major skiing regions, snow cover days are projected to decrease substantially under every assessed climate change scenario. Thirteen percent of all current ski areas are projected to completely lose natural annual snow cover and one fifth will experience a reduct

SUBMITTER: Mitterwallner V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10936838 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature