Now three of the four working groups have their own home pages. Two recent review papers concerning COST 715 were made available here in July 2001. It is a framework for international research and development cooperation, allowing to coordinate national research at European level. COST does not fund research as such, but coordination of research. COST includes as member states countries from the European Union, and a number of other European countries.
More information is available at the official COST site .
See also the section later on this page on COST links. COST action 715 on urban meteorology - in brief The requirements of the framework Directive on air quality assessment and management introduce real practical problems for the meteorological community. For example some of the meteorological variables needed in urban air pollution assessments are not routinely measured. In normal circumstances the number of meteorological stations in urban areas is limited to a few sites often just at airports. It is a European wide project involving 14 countries at the present time.