Ski piste snow ablation versus potential infiltration (Veporic Unit, Western Carpathians)

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F62156489%3A43310%2F20%3A43917606" target="_blank" >RIV/62156489:43310/20:43917606 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.2478/johh-2019-0026" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.2478/johh-2019-0026</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/johh-2019-0026" target="_blank" >10.2478/johh-2019-0026</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Ski piste snow ablation versus potential infiltration (Veporic Unit, Western Carpathians)
Original language description
Snow production results in high volume of snow that is remaining on the low-elevation ski pistes after snow-melt of natural snow on the off-piste sites. The aim of this study was to identify snow/ice depth, snow density, and snow water equivalent of remaining ski piste snowpack to calculate and to compare snow ablation water volume with potential infiltration on the ski piste area at South-Central Slovak ski center Kosutka (Inner Western Carpathians; temperate zone). Snow ablation water volume was calculated from manual snow depth and density measurements, which were performed at the end of five winter seasons 2010-2011 to 2015-2016, except for season 2013-2014. The laser diffraction analyzes were carried out to identify soil grain size and subsequently the hydraulic conductivity of soil to calculate the infiltration. The average rate of water movement through soil was seven times as high as five seasons' average ablation rate of ski piste snowpack; nevertheless, the ski piste area was potentially able to infiltrate only 47% of snow ablation water volume on average. Limitation for infiltration was frozen soil and ice layers below the ski piste snowpack and low snow-free area at the beginning of the studied ablation period.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10510 - Climatic research

Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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