A Viticulture Climate Exchange (VitiCE) project

Summary A free (2017) iOS and Android app. for UK viticulture Delivering viticulture specific weather forecasts. Presenting weekly national, regional, and local weather metrics, tracked comparatively with previous seasons. Enabling recording and analysis of phenology, disease, harvest, and yield variables. Providing news and reports on weather and viticulture relationships, across the UK.

Background A project run by Svinergy. Svinergy is a partnership between Weatherquest, the UKVA, NIAB EMR, and Exeter University, established in 2016 to work with wine producers in delivering weather & climate services. Svinergy’s VitiCE app project is being funded by Weatherquest (£270k) and an EIP-Agri grant (£50k). The VitiCE project is being supported by several UK wine producers, and managed by Dr Alistair Nesbitt.

App design

App design

App functionality The app will deliver local: Weather observations and up to 10-day weather forecasts. Weather alerts for frost, snow, and lightening. Spray and harvest risk warnings. A temperature, rainfall, air frost, and solar radiation tracker, updated weekly, showing accumulation compared with previous seasons. Maps of temperature, rainfall, frost, and solar radiation accumulation, for the UK.

App functionality The app will deliver: Phenology, disease, and harvest data input functions for up to three vineyards and 15 variety, clone, and rootstock combinations per app user. Insights into: Regional and variety specific phenology Monthly reports on regional weather conditions Relations between weather, climate, and vine performance NOTE: The insights function will only be available to those who contribute data/information to the app.

Sign-up! To register your interest for the app please visit: www.climatevine.com The app will be launched in June 2017. The more information growers feed into the app the more analysis it undertakes and the more value it will have to users and the sector as a whole. All personal and vineyard information will be anonymized and remain confidential.