www.cost.esf.org

Chair Simone Orlandini

Vice chair Pavol Nejedlik

Web master Federica Rossi

Rapporteur Giampiero Maracchi

Science Officer Carine Petit

Administrative OfficerSjamsudin Chandrasa

www.cost734.eu

STATUS

OF THE

ACTION

The Action started on November 17, 2006and will finish on November 16, 2010.

Number of Signatories:25 countries have signed the MoU

COST 734 Signatori

es

Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland,

Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania,

Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerlad, United Kingdom

Non COST members

WMO Agricultural Meteorology Division Word Meteorology Organization

JRC Ispra- IPSC- AGRIFISH UNIT Joint Research Centre

PHASES

- Planning, operational arrangements, establishment of WGs and inventory (First part of 1st Year)

- Main scientific work to be conducted by each WG (End of 1st Year to end of 3rd Year)

- WGs activities to be concluded with emphasis on disseminations, reports and final publications (4th Year)

A

B

C

Phase: Inventory (1st year, 9 months)A

MC Establish initial WGs and membership and define initial work

Identification of end-user needs Definition of European agricultural areas focus of COST Action activity depending on data availability, crop

diffusion, etc.WG1 Critical review of agroclimatic indices and simulation

models and assessment of the new needs

WG2 Inventory and collection of current climatic information from European regions

All WGs Report to MC

WG4 Definition of standard criteria for the evaluation of hazard impacts on agriculture in Europe

WG3 Inventory and collection of future climatic scenarios

Working Group 1 Agroclimatic Indices and ModelsGroup Leader: Josef Eitzinger

Working Group 2.1

Trends in Agroclimatic Indices and Model Outputs Leader: Vesselin Alexandrovco-Leader: Elena Mateescu

Remote Sensing SubgroupGroup Leader: Leonidas Toulios

Working Group 3Climate change scenarios Group Leader: Lucka Kajfez Bogatajco-Leader: Pierluigi Calanca

Working Group 4Risk Assessment and Foreseen Impacts on

Agriculture Group Leader: Jorgen Edvind Olesenco-Leader: Miroslav Trnka

Working Group 2

COST 725 Establishing a European Phenological Data Platform for Climatological Applications Andreja Susnik COST 726Long term changes and climatology of UV radiation over Europe Tor Sivertsen COST ES0601 Advances in homogenisation methods of climate series: an integrated approach Vesselin Alexandrov COST ES0603Assessment of production, release, distribution and health impact of allergenic pollen in Europe (EUPOL)

External contacts: other COST Actions

Agricultural Meteorology Division of the World Meteorological Organization

Joint activities will be planned, as well as the possible organisation of common meetings and conferences together with the relevant

expert teams of CAgM will be considered.

Collaborations were defined with WMO activities in the frame of climate change impact and particularly with: Open Program Area Group (OPAG)ET on impact of climate risks in vulnerable areas: agrometeorological monitoring and coping strategiesET on drought and extreme temperatures: preparedness and management for sustainable agriculture, rangelands, forestry, and fisheries

WAMIS “World AgroMeteorological Information Service”

International Society of Agricultural Meteorology (INSAM)

External contacts: WMO

External contacts: Research projects

ACCRETe Elena Mateescu

CECILIA Tomas Halenka

KLIMA2 Christian Kersebaum

IPCC Lucka Kajfez Bogatai

ENSEMBLES co-ordinated by Dave Griggs, (Director of Climate Research at the Met Office's Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research)

CLAVIER Daniela Jacob

Josef EitzingerADAGIO

External contacts: Joint Research Centre

The participation of delegates nominated by the Joint research centre of Ispra, represents very important point for the establishment of direct cooperation with

European Commission:•Institute for the protection and security of the

citizen - Agricultural and fisheries unit

Delegates: Fabio Micale Giampiero Genovese

A collaboration with Climate Change and Energy Group of European Protection Agency was also

defined

EEA intend to include various indicators on changesin plant species and growing season, e.g. in natural

ecosystems and agriculture.

External contacts: EEA

External contacts: AEA Energy & Environment

AEA are currently working on the European Commission project 'Adaptation to Climate Change in the Agricultural Sector‘, gathering information on national agricultural adaptive strategies.AEA would like to invite COST 734 to participate in this via the use of an online questionnaire this June. 

This questionnaire is intended to confirm and expand on the picture of national adaptation that has emerged to date.  In particular, gathering additional information on:* Communication and awareness raising* Extension and advisory services* Insurance and weather derivative schemes

External contacts: Italian Association of Agrometeorology

The web site of the Action was set up and is now fully operational.

All participants are encouraged to send a short CV, EoC and photo to Federica Rossi /f.rossi@ibimet.cnr.it/, together with information to update the site

Web site

Short term scientific mission

COMPLETED

Valentin Kazandjev, BG to AustriaVeska Georgieva, BG to Austria

Ronald W.A. Huthjes, NE to Finland

PLANNED

Miroslav Trinka, CZ to U.S.A.Christos Dominikiotis, GR to Denmark

Emanuel Tzinos, GR to Italy

Dissemination of results

One of the main aims of the Action is the dissemination of the results to the end-users

policy-makers

extension services

farmers

plant breeders

insurance companies

Dedicated web site, COST reports, conference presentations, peer-reviewed publications and

advanced training schools for users.

green peper

PLANNED PUBLICATIONS

journal published by Elsevier "Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment" (a journal included in SCI, 2005 impact

factor of 1.495) have invited COST 734 to contribute to a special issue of the journal on "Agriculture and

Changing  Climate".

special issue of the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences devoted to the EMS meeting and entitled

"Trends and Directions in Climate Research“ will include a paper prepared by COST 734 core group (deadline

January 2008)

Reports on questionnaire contents:Analysing the state of the art for each considered topic

(climatic data, models, scenarios, etc.)

“Weather, Climate and Farmers”

in collaboration with WMO

Advances in homogenization methods of climate series: An integrated approach

Climate Change 2007:The Physical Science Basis Working Group Ist

Contribution to the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report. SPM accepted February 1st 2007 in Paris

An Overview of Environmental Hazards Related to Crops in Greece

Satellite Remote Sensing as a tool for monitoring of climate and environment

Overview on impact studies and relevant ongoing projects on impact and adaptation within the

KLIMAzwei programme in Germany

Presentations and Reports

Held meetings

4/10/2007 Brussels (BE) Expert meeting for agriadaptation workshop

1-5/10/2007 El Escorial Madrid ( ES ) Expert meeting at the EMS Conf

5-6/06/2007 Brussels (BE) ESSEM science day31/05/2007 Brussels ( BE ) Expert meeting16/04/2007 Novi Sad ( RS ) Expert meeting05/09/2006 Ljubljana ( SI ) Expert meeting at the EMS Conf.17/07/2006 Helsinki ( FI ) Expert meeting at the Clim. Risk Conf.

20-23/10/2007 Vienna ( AT ) 4th MC+WGs meeting20-22/05/2007 Poznan ( PL ) 3rd MC+WGs meeting21-23/02/2007 Florence ( IT ) 2nd MC+WGs meeting16-17/11/2006 Brussels ( BE ) 1st MC meeting21/04/2006 Brussels ( BE ) Kick-off meeting of 734

Planned meetings

29-30 October London for Green Peper presentationJanuary 2008 core group meeting for editorial aimsMarch 2008 Larissa (GR) 5th MCM June 2008 Aas (NO) intermediate workshop and 6th MCMJune 2008 ESSEM 2008

Future work plan. QUESTIONNAIRES

To define the structure of planned publication (VIENNA MCM): collection of missing information, statistics

elaboration, general comments, etc.

To prepare the first draft of the chapters (Dec 2007)

To evaluate and discuss this draft (core group meeting Jan 2008)

To revise the chapters and prepare the final version (Feb 2008)

To present the publication: intermediate workshop (Jun 2008)