Expression of Commitment

in COST Action 734 “Climate change and variability impact on European agriculture - CLIVAGRI“

2 Proposer and contact

Name:  Prof. Dr. Simone Orlandini (simone.orlandini@unifi.it)

Institution:  Department of Agronomy and Land Management - University of Florence

Piazzale delle Cascine 18

50144 Firenze. Italia

3 Objective of MoU to be addressed

Analysing of the suitable models and indices for assessing the impact of climate change and variability. Defining the risk for European agriculture

4 Contribution:

Chairman of COST Action

Part of the scientific programme concerned with:

-  Definition of indices and models for climate change and variability analysis (WG 1)

 -  Analysis of agroclimatic data for the assessment of climate variability trends (WG 2)

 -  Risk assessment of several European agricultural areas (WG 4)

Deliverables:

- assistance of Josef Eitzinger in guidance of WG 1

 - assistance of Vesselin Alexandrov in guidance of WG 2

 - assistance of Lucka Kajfez Bogataj in guidance of WG 3

 - assistance of Jørgen Eivind Olesen in guidance of WG 4

MC reports to TD

Indicative timetable:

year 1  Securing that all WGs are running on detailed work plans based on 

inventories on existing knowledge and on identification of needs.

Dissemination of the preliminary results. MC reports.

year 2/3           Regular WG-meetings for planning, implementing, reviewing and synthesising.

Dissemination of the preliminary results. MC reports.

Year 4             Completion of the work of all 4 WGs.

                        Dissemination of the results. MC reports

Resources:

10 hours per week Simone Orlandini

14 hours per week assisting students

Assurance:

The necessary resources to perform the task will be available.

Foreseen collaboration:

WMO-Agrometeorology

JRC-ISPRA

Regional and National Hydrometeorology Service

University of San Paulo (Brazil)

Pervious experience:

Department of Agronomy of Florence has a large experience on the analysis of climate change impact on agriculture. Simone Orlandini collaborated to these activities. He was also a member of COST Action 718 and he is Italian delegate to COST Action 730.

Publications:

ORLANDINI S., BINDI M., GOZZINI B. (1993). Effect of CO2-induced climatic change on viticultural environments of cool climate regions of Italy. Viticultural and Enological Sciences, 48, 81-85.

BINDI M., GOZZINI B., ORLANDINI S. (1995). The combined effects of climate changes and increases in atmospheric CO2 concentration on the potential growth of three grapevine varieties. Acta Horticulturae N° 388, 43-52.

BINDI M., FIBBI L., GOZZINI B., ORLANDINI S., MIGLIETTA F. (1996). Modelling the impact of climate scenarios on yield and yield variability of grapevine. Climate Research, 7, 213-224.

GRIFONI D., MANCINI M., MARACCHI G., ZIPOLI G., ORLANDINI S. (2006). Analysis of Italian wine quality using free available meteorological information. American Journal of Enology and Viticulture.

MARACCHI G., CAPECCHI V., DALLA MARTA A., ORLANDINI S., (2007). Weather and climate monitoring for food risk management. Meteorological Application.