The Pan European Phenological Database

Themenbereich

Forschungsinfrastruktur, Phänologie, Europa, Datenbank, open access

Status

laufend

Zusammenfassung

Projektwebsite "PEP 725"

Phenology the study of annual recurring events in plants and animals as leaf unfolding, flowering, fruit ripening or arrival of migrating birds though active in the 19^th century, was for long time an abandoned field: But during the past decade phenology has rapidly become an important tool for climate change impact studies. In the 4^th assessment report of IPCC the results of phenological research play a major role in assessing the observed changes in natural and managed systems. Plants influence the fluxes of momentum in the atmosphere, play a dominant role in the radiation budget and are part of the water cycle of the climate system. Vegetation is a dynamical factor of the earth – climate system and has positive and negative feedback mechanisms to the bio-geochemical and bio-geophysical fluxes to the atmosphere. Probably the most prominent biogeochemical feedback is the interaction between vegetation and CO₂ concentration of the atmosphere. The study of that is a crucial area of for increasing knowledge of critical exchanges in the planetary carbon balance.

PEP 725 funded by EUMETNET and ZAMG will maintain and update the European phenological database created by COST725, but will also bring in phenological data from the time before 1951 and develop better quality checking procedures and ensure an open access to the database. PEP725 provides an attractive webpage and allows a user friendly download of European phenological data in only four steps.

Projektziele

The main objective of PEP725 is to promote and facilitate phenological studies and research by delivering a pan European phenological database with an open, unrestricted data access for science, research and education www.pep725.eu

Projektbeginn

01.2010

Projektende

12.2014

Projektteam

Ansprechpartner	Abteilung	Fachgebiet	Telefon
Koch Elisabeth Dr.	Fachabteilung Klima	Leitung	+43 1 36026 2201
Lipa Wolfgang Dr.	Abteilung Datenprüfung	Datenbank	+43 1 36026 2207
Ungersböck Markus Mag.	Regionalstelle Salzburg/Oberoesterreich	Homepage	+43 1 36026 3614

Projektpartner

16 nationale europäische Wetterdienste und 5 Netzwerkbetreiber

Finanzierung

ZAMG, EUMETNET

Publikationen

E. Koch, S. Adler, M. Ungersböck, S. Zach-Hermann (2010): PEP725 Pan European Phenological Database, Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 12, EGU2010-14942, EGU General Assembly 2010

http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2010/EGU2010-14942.pdf

E. Koch, S. Adler, W. Lipa, M. Ungersböck, S. Zach-Hermann (2010): The pan European phenological database PEP725. Berichte des Meteorologischen Institutes der Albrecht-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg Nr. 20: Proceedings of the 7th conference on Biometeorology, 12 – 14 April 2010

http://www.mif.uni-freiburg.de/biomet/bm7/report20.pdf

E. Koch, S. Adler, W. Lipa, M. Ungersböck, and S. Zach-Hermann, Poster: PEP725 Pan European Phenological Database, Proceedings EMS/ECAC 2010, Zürich

http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EMS2010/EMS2010-225.pdf

E. Koch, S. Adler, M. Ungersböck, S. Adler (2011): PEP725 Pan European Phenological Database, Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 13, EGU2011-11279, EGU General Assembly 2011

http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2011/EGU2011-11279.pdf

Website

http://www.pep725.eu