PEP 725: MONITORING OF SPRING PHENOLOGY 2015

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1 PEP 725: MONITORING OF SPRING PHENOLOGY European Partners and Elisabeth Koch, Thomas Hübner, Anita Paul, Markus Ungersböck, Helfried Scheifinger all ZAMG, Vienna, Austria Slide 1

2 THE PEP725 COMMUNITY successor of the COST Action 725 funded by ZAMG, Austrian ministry for science & research & economy bmwfw and EUMETNET main objective promote and facilitate phenological research by delivering a pan European phenological database with an open, unrestricted data access for science, research and education So far 20 European meteorological services and 7 partners from different phenological network operators have joined PEP725. Slide 2

3 THE PEP725 COMMUNITY STREAMGRAPH showing records in PEP725 DB Slide 3

4 THE PEP725 COMMUNITY one download is the summary of all records for a certain plant and phase for a single country Downloads per year + many special requests

5 Betula pendula Quercus robur Fagus Picea abies (P.excelsa) Prunus avium Acer pseudoplatanus Tilia Sorbus aucuparia Acer platanoides Aesculus hippocastanum Sambucus Corylus avellana Robinia pseudoacacia Populus tremula Alnus glutinosa Larix decidua Pyrus communis Vitis vinifera Hordeum vulgare Salix caprea Syringa vulgaris Acer platanoides Fraxinus excelsior Tussilago farfara Zea mays Some statistics of most wanted plants Betula pendula, Quercus robur, Fagus sylvatica 0 users field of interest phenology remote sensing agriculture & forestry ecology CC studies biometeorology Pollen used for master / PhD thesis others users from 42 countries

6 PHENOLOGY AS CC IMPACT INDICATOR the timing of seasonal activities of animals and plants is perhaps the simplest process in which to track changes in the ecology of species in response to climate change (IPCC 2007) Slide 6

7 PHENOLOGY AS CC IMPACT INDICATOR Phenology has come back to the center of interest, not only in research but also as a way to communicate effects of climate change to the public. The first and most obvious biological impacts of climate change was detected in the environment using long-term phenological data. Slide 7

8 REAL TIME MONITORING NETWORK D-A-CH REGION D: Schnellmeldenetz A: since 2006 CH: since 2014/2015 Slide 8

9 EARLY SPRING 2015 IN D-A-CH REGION: CORYLUS avellana start of flowering Hazel flowered first in Northern Germany and in the Tessin at beginning of January, last record comes from Graubünden at the end of March. Cold spells in February resulted in a slowed down vegetation development. Finally on March 28th hazel flowering was reported from Graubünden in 1250 m a.s.l. Slide 9

10 JANUARY 2015 IN D-A-CH REGION Mean temperature January Slide 10

11 FULL SPRING 2015 IN D-A-CH REGION: MALUS domestica start of flowering Apple started to flower at beginning of April in SW Germany and in the S of Switzerland, the last record comes from the Eastern Austrian Alps at mid of May. The flowering wave proceeded more or less from the South to the North - neglecting higher altitudes in the Alpine regions. Slide 11

12 APRIL 2015 IN D-A-CH REGION Mean temperature April Slide 12

13 GERMANY: COMPARISON 2015 WITH Austrian Phenological Mirror Slide 13

14 AUSTRIA: COMPARISON 2015 WITH Austrian Phenological Mirror Slide 15

15 AUSTRIA: APPLE FIRST FLOWERING

16 SWITZERLAND: COMPARISON 2015 WITH Swiss Pheno SpringIndex Slide 17

17 FULL SPRING IN EUROPE: MALUS domestica start of flowering Apple starts to flower before March 21st in the Mediterranean areas and reaches Scandinavia after June 19th: so it takes 90 days for full spring to cross Europe from the South to the North. Schnelle, F., 1965: Beiträge zur Phänologie Europas. Ber. Dt. Wetterdienst 14 Slide 18

18 FULL SPRING IN D-A-CH: MALUS domestica start of flowering In D-A-CH in the period the average start of apple flowering in the D-A-CH region was first observed in the Eastern and South Eastern parts of Austria and in the Rhine Valley between Basel and Essen: and That is about ten days later than in 2015 a normal year compared with Slide 19 Schnelle, F., 1965: Beiträge zur Phänologie Europas. Ber. Dt. Wetterdienst 14

19 PEP 725: MONITORING OF SPRING PHENOLOGY Slide 22