climate change

A skier survey was undertaken in three ski resorts in New South Wales and possible response strategies of the Australian ski industry to climate change were investigated. The skier survey showed that climate change would have significant implications for the Australian snow resorts in terms of visitor numbers. It was shown that Australian ski resorts would lose 44 per cent of their skiers if...
High-elevation ecosystems are predicted to be some of the terrestrial habitats most sensitive to climatic changes. However, the ecological consequences of changes in alpine environmental conditions, especially in alpine soils, are still unclear especially in Australia where little or no research has as yet been carried out. These ecosystems are composed of slow growing plants and soils which are...

Climate change impacts on the spatial extent of snow cover in the Australian Alps are examined using the Galloway snow model and the latest Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) climate change scenarios. These scenarios take into account a range of quantifiable uncertainties associated with projecting climate change and thus allow for...

Some of the highest rates of global warming are occurring in high southern latitudes (ca. 0.25?C per decade, Jones 1988). The effect of this warming on the terrestrial vegetation is not yet fully understood. Using an altitudinal temperature gradient as an analogy to temperature change a study has been initiated with the aim of predicting the effects of climate warming on subantarctic Macquarie...

The possible effects of enhanced greenhouse climate change have been wide debated in the general and scientific community. The current distribution of alpine and high country flora and fauna species, their current predicted climatic envelope determined using BIOCLIM and several scenarios of regional climate change developed by the CSIRO were utilized to develop scenarios for the alpine...

In the next century, climate change caused by "greenhouse" warming may severely alter the world's climate patterns. Forests throughout the world will be affected by this climate change. In order to bring a better understanding to the general public of how climate change will effect their lives, this paper lays the groundwork for showing the effects of anthropogenically caused accelerated climate...
A study of snow statistics over the past 50 years at several climatological stations in the Swiss Alps has highlighted periods in which snow was either abundant or not. Periods with relative low snow amounts and duration are closely linked to the presence of persistent high surface pressure fields over the Alpine region during late fall and in winter. These high pressure episodes are accompanied...
The Calderone Glacier is characterised by a reduction phase since the end of the "Little Ice Age" (LIA) Auct., particularly strong during the last decade. In fact during the nineties a set of multidisciplinary researches started to evaluate the role of the Glacier like an indicator of the effects of human activities and finally of regional and global climatic change. The apparatus is now confined...

During the 1980s, a series of major changes to the Earth's environment, including increases in C02 levels and the hole in the ozone layer, were detected only because of the existence of long-term monitoring. The recognition of a lack of quantitative long-term information on the state of the environment came to the fore, and the need for national and international programmes to monitor...

Variation that took place at the terminus of some Karakorum glaciers (particularly the Baltoro glacier and the Liligo glacier) during the present century has been reconstructed using several methodologies. The two glaciers studied have shown different behaviors at the termini, at least regarding the rate of displacement. The Baltoro is one of the longest glaciers on the Earth, excluding Artic...

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