Space and Time Variability of Grapevine Phenology in Europe

gabriele cola

This work aims to evaluate the effects of European climate variability and change on grapevine cv Chardonnay phenology along the recent period (1981-2012) which was characterized by two homogeneous thermal phases divided by an abrupt shift occurred at the end of the 80s (Werner et al, 2000, Mariani et al, 2012). This goal was pursued applying the operational phenological model of the Iphen project (Mariani et al., 2013) to daily European thermal fields and analyzing the deriving behavior of grapevine phenology (cv Chardonnay) .