PhenoNews

At the 9th EUMETNET Datamanagement Workshop - that took place in El Escorial, Spain - the attached poster was presented.

THE PAN EUROPEAN PHENOLOGICAL DATABASE PEP725: DATA CONTENT AND -QUALITY
Anita Jurkovic¹, Thomas Hübner¹, Elisabeth Koch¹, Wolfgang Lipa¹, Helfried Scheifinger¹, Markus Ungersböck¹, Susanne Zach-Hermann^1
1ZAMG-Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics, Vienna, Austria

The poster exemplifies the status quo of the data content of the PEP725 database and incipient stages of used and planned quality controls, respectively.

Poster download DMWS9th_PEP725_Jurkovic.pdf

We are very pleased to announce the start of the abstract submission for the EGU General Assembly 2014 (EGU2014), 27 April - 02 May 2014, Vienna, Austria.

Of special interrest the planned session on:

Phenology and seasonality in climate change and ecology (co-sponsored by PEP725 and USA-NPN) (co-organized)
CR3/AS4.24/BG5.6

http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2014/sessionprogramme

After a belated start of the spring season due to cold weather from March till beginning of April a warm and sunny second half of April and first half of May accelerated spring-phenology. The graph compares spring 2013 (red dots) with the long term distribution. One can see that leaf unfolding of larch started end of April which is about two to three weeks later than the average. Lilac flowered quite in time in the first days of March - cock´s foot and black elder flowering was observed about one week earlier than usual.

In the diagram you can see the annual mean occurrence date in black and the year 2013 as red dots.

The presentation: Trend of earlier spring in central Europe continued (Ungersböck et al.) from the EGU2013 conference is now online available Trend of earlier spring in central Europe continued

Announcement for the ASI12 Phenology and agrometeorology session at the
13th EMS Annual Meeting & 11th European Conference on Applications of Meteorology (ECAM) , 09 – 13 September 2013, Reading, United Kingdom.

Deadline for papers is the 25. April 2013

All details can be found on the conference homepage www.ems2013.net

May I rise your attention to the upcoming conference Mountains Under Watch 2013 (20-21 February 2013, Forte di Bard, Aosta Valley - Italy), an interdisciplinary conference that aims at bringing together scientists and experts working in the diverse fields of climate change studies in mountain areas around the world. The specific goal of the conference is to share experiences, methods and strategies for long term observations and monitoring of the climate change effects on different alpine environments ranging from the cryosphere to the biosphere.

All details can be found on the conference website MUW13

Four of the presentations given at the PEP725 Symposion are now available for download:

• Toward a phenology network in Turkey, H. Nüzhet Dalfes


• Results from the phenological gardens of the University of Perugia, Fabio Orlandi


• Seasons, phenology and citizen science projects in Switzerland, This Rutishauser


• Long-term Assessment of Spring's Onset in North America, Mark D. Schwartz


• Elevational adaptation and plasticity in seedlings - phenology of temperate deciduous species, Yann Vitasse


• Off-season carbon dioxide exchange of a temperate mountain grassland, Georg Wohlfahrt


• Warming experiments underpredict plant phenological responses to climate change, Elizabeth M. Wolkovich

The International Conference on Bioclimatology will be held from 29. - 31. August, 2012 in Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic

Session I: Variability of urban climate
Session II: Forest and agricultural climatology
Session III: Agroecology and climate changes, phenology and aerobiology
Session IV: Human bioclimatology and zoobioclimatology

all details can be found at www.bioklima2012.org

Evidence from observations, reconstructions, measurements and models (co-sponsored by USA-NPN, PAGES & ILEAPS) session at EGU2012. The presented PEP725 poster is available for download

PEP725 Symposium New Developments in Phenology at ZAMG, Vienna - Minutes in preparation

MeteoSwiss, ETH Zürich and GLOBE Swizerland has launched the new PhaenoNet Portal a Citizen Science Project for phenological observations.

The press release can be found here (German, French, Italian)