COST725 – establishing a European phenological data platform for climatological applications: major results

摘要

COST – European COoperation in the field of Scientific andTechnical Research – is the oldest and widest intergovernmental Europeannetwork for cooperation in research. COST Action 725 (running from 2004 to2009) aimed at and succeeded in establishing a European data base ofphenological observations, classifying the data according to one commonsystem and using the data in scientific peer reviewed papers. COST725organized many workshops and conferences that helped to bring together notonly the European, but also the global, phenological community. One of thehighlights of COST725 was the boxed entry "Phenological responses to climatein Europe: the COST725 project" in the AR4 of IPCC in 2007. And last, butnot least, although the action ended in April 2009 a follow up will belaunched in 2010 under EUMETNET/ECSN.