Investigating the Effects of Climate Change and Global Warming on Sports Infrastructure and Events (Case study: Ski)

Subject Areas : Environment

Seyed Mostafa Tayebi Sani ¹ , sharareh norouzi ² , Ali Fahiminejad ³ , Bagher Morsal ⁴

1 - DEPARTMENT OF physical education, shahrood branch, islamic azad university
2 - Department of Physical Education, Faculty of Science, Shahrood Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shahrood, Iran (Ph.D. Student)
3 - Department of Physical Education, Faculty of Science, Shahrood Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shahrood, Iran (Assistant professor)
4 - Department of Physical Education, Faculty of Science, Shahrood Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shahrood, Iran (Assistant professor)

Received: 2020-06-27 Accepted : 2020-11-10 Published : 2020-04-20

Keywords: global warming, Ski, sports infrastructure, Climate Change,

Abstract :

The aim of this study is to investigate the effects and consequences of climate change and global warming on the infrastructure of skiing in the coming years. This research is of descriptive-analytical type, which has been done through modeling and using Matlab software, in order to evaluate the possibility of holding sports in 28 active and widely used ski sites in 2030 and 2050. The scenarios examined were reliable snow level in the lower range and above 1500 meters above sea level. The results suggest that with the current trend, The effects of climate change on winter tourism may be even more severe in countries such as Germany and Austria due to the lower altitude of their ski resorts. In Austria, the current snow line will rise by 200 to 300 meters in the next 30 to 50 years with climate change. If the snow level rises from 1,200 to 1,500 meters, the number of standard ski slopes will be reduced. Also, if the level reaches more than 1,500 meters, the number of ski resorts in the Alps will be reduced to 63%, and only 44% of the ski areas can be called reliable snow