• Climate controls on snow reliability in French Alps ski resorts 

      Spandre, P.; François, H.; Verfaillie, Deborah; Lafaysse, M.; Déqué, M.; Eckert, N.; George, E.; Morin, S. (Nature Research, 2019-05-29)
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      Ski tourism is a major sector of mountain regions economy, which is under the threat of long-term climate change. Snow management, and in particular grooming and artificial snowmaking, has become a routine component of ski ...
    • How reliable are decadal climate predictions of near-surface air temperature? 

      Verfaillie, Deborah; Doblas-Reyes, Francisco; Donat, Markus; Pérez-Zanón, Núria; Solaraju Murali, Balakrishnan; Torralba, Verónica; Wild, Simon (American Meteorological Society (AMS), 2020)
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      Decadal climate predictions are being increasingly used by stakeholders interested in the evolution of climate over the coming decade. However, investigating the added value of those initialized decadal predictions over ...
    • Representation and annual to decadal predictability of Euro-Atlantic weather regimes in the CMIP6 Version of the EC-Earth Coupled Climate Model 

      Delgado Torres, Carlos; Verfaillie, Deborah; Mohino, Elsa; Donat, Markus (Wiley, 2022-07-15)
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      Weather regimes are large-scale atmospheric circulation states that frequently occur in the climate system with persistence and recurrence, and are associated with the occurrence of specific local weather conditions. This ...
    • Winter tourism under climate change in the Pyrenees and the French Alps: relevance of snowmaking as a technical adaptation 

      Spandre, Pierre; François, Hugues; Verfaillie, Deborah; Pons, Marc; Vernay, Matthieu; Lafaysse, Matthieu; George, Emmanuelle; Morin, Samuel (European Geosciences Union (EGU), 2019-04-24)
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      Climate change is increasingly regarded as a threat for winter tourism due to the combined effect of decreasing natural snow amounts and decreasing suitable periods for snowmaking. The present work investigated the snow ...