21st Century alpine climate change

S Kotlarski, A Gobiet, S Morin, M Olefs, J Rajczak… - Climate Dynamics, 2023 - Springer
A comprehensive assessment of twenty-first century climate change in the European Alps is
presented. The analysis is based on the EURO-CORDEX regional climate model ensemble …

Ski tourism in a warmer world: Increased adaptation and regional economic impacts in Austria

R Steiger, D Scott - Tourism Management, 2020 - Elsevier
Climate change risk has gained considerable attention within the ski industry and its
investors. Several past studies have overlooked the adaptive capacity of snowmaking and …

[HTML][HTML] Climate change and winter outdoor activities in Austria

R Steiger, A Damm, F Prettenthaler… - Journal of Outdoor …, 2021 - Elsevier
Winter tourism is an often-mentioned example of industries with high sensitivity to climatic
changes. Existing reviews are either focusing on one activity and/or type of tourism or …

Evaluating skills and issues of quantile-based bias adjustment for climate change scenarios

F Lehner, I Nadeem… - Advances in Statistical …, 2023 - ascmo.copernicus.org
Daily meteorological data such as temperature or precipitation from climate models are
needed for many climate impact studies, eg, in hydrology or agriculture, but direct model …

[HTML][HTML] Modelled performance of energy saving air treatment devices to mitigate heat stress for confined livestock buildings in Central Europe

R Vitt, L Weber, W Zollitsch, SJ Hörtenhuber… - Biosystems …, 2017 - Elsevier
Intensive pig and poultry production are predominantly performed in confined livestock
buildings which are equipped with mechanical ventilation systems. The frequency of heat …

[HTML][HTML] Dynamic soil functions assessment employing land use and climate scenarios at regional scale

E Jost, M Schönhart, R Skalský, J Balkovič… - Journal of environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Soils as key component of terrestrial ecosystems are under increasing pressures. As an
advance to current static assessments, we present a dynamic soil functions assessment …

Impacts of global warming on confined livestock systems for growing-fattening pigs: simulation of heat stress for 1981 to 2017 in Central Europe

C Mikovits, W Zollitsch, SJ Hörtenhuber… - International Journal of …, 2019 - Springer
In the mid-latitudes, pigs and poultry are kept predominantly in confined livestock buildings
with a mechanical ventilation system. In the last decades, global warming has already been …

Direct and indirect climate change impacts on brown trout in central Europe: How thermal regimes reinforce physiological stress and support the emergence of …

F Borgwardt, G Unfer, S Auer, K Waldner… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Water temperature is one of the most important abiotic parameters in rivers having direct and
indirect effects on fish. Especially cold-water species like the brown trout (Salmo trutta) are …

Regional climate model biases, their dependence on synoptic circulation biases and the potential for bias adjustment: A process‐oriented evaluation of the Austrian …

D Maraun, H Truhetz, A Schaffer - Journal of Geophysical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The Austrian regional climate projections are based on an ensemble of bias adjusted
regional climate model simulations. Bias adjustment (BA) improves the usability of climate …

Climate risk and vulnerability assessment of floods in Austria: Mapping homogenous regions, hotspots and typologies

JL Leis, S Kienberger - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
This research addresses the need for proactive climate risk management (CRM) by
developing and applying a spatial climate risk and vulnerability assessment (CRVA) to …