– working group 1 on “Data access and data availability”;
– working group 2 on “Spatial interpolation”;
– working group 3 on “GIS applications”.
Most of the applications have focused on three climate parameters: temperature, precipitation and energy balance in the fields of climatology, meteorology and environmental sciences.
This book is the proceedings of most of the presentations made during the final conference of the COST 719 action (Grenoble, July 2006). It comprises four parts, each one introduced by a keynote speaker.
This compilation of papers—presented during the COST European program entitled “The Use of GIS in Climatology and Meteorology”—focuses on the applications of geographic software and data to interpolate climate and meteorology parameters. Issues such as spatial interpolation of climate parameters, environmental problems, and national meteorology institutes’ current demo projects are detailed and supplemented by practical application illustrations.