European Agrometeorological applications

Agrometeorology can represent an important tool for the improvement of agricultural producer activity. The development of agrometeorological application, also by using World Wide Web, can produce and disseminate elaborated information to the users, representing and important decisions support system. In this paper the results of a survey of agrometeorological applications in Europe are presented, showing several examples collected on different countries. An important activity is also performed by COST Action 718, Meteorological Applications for Agriculture. The main objective is to improve the meteorological applications to agriculture and environment protection identifying and defining the requirement in term of scale and time resolution and end-users' needs.