SVIBOR - Project code: 1-06-009

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Project code: 1-06-009


STORMS AND NATURAL DISASTERS IN CROATIA


Main researcher: JURČEC, VESNA (19220)


Assistants
Type of research: applied
Duration from: 05/01/91. to 12/31/95.
Papers on project (total): 47
Papers on project quoted in Current Contents: 5
Institution name: Državni hidrometeorološki zavod, Zagreb (4)
Department/Institute: Center for Meteorological Research
Address: Grič 3
City: 10000 - Zagreb, Croatia
Communication
Phone: 385 (01)4565 678
Fax: 385 (0)41 278 703
E-mail: picek@cirus.dhz.hr
Summary: This project contains the research of storms and natural disasters, in order to prevent them or alleviate their effects, as suggested by UN and WMO as a task for 1990 decade for all Member countries. Most severe storms in Croatia belong to the oreigenic (caused by orography) type of storms, and their nature could be explained by the interaction of macro and mesoscale processes in the Alpine area. The Alpine region modifies and deform the frontal systems, and the splitting flow over and around the Alps is responsible for the lee cyclogenesis, the main cause of the storms in the cold part of the year, especially the Adriatic bura and jugo. In the continental Croatia special attention is given to the summer storms in unstable air mass which may cause the large amount of precipitation and the appearance of hail, but there may be also long dry periods due to the stationary anticyclones.

Keywords: severe storms, bura, jugo, scirocco, large precipitation, hail, water spoute, snow storms, drought, local forecast

Research goals: The goal of this research is to find causes of severe storms in Croatia on synoptic and subsynoptic scale on the basis of the most intense storm phenomena in last 35 years. The knowledge of physical origin of these atmospheric processes is a straightforward contribution to the weather forecast methods (nowcasting and warnings).

COOPERATION - PROJECTS


  1. Name of project: JF 990-0 NSF NATURE AND THEORY OF SEVERE BORA STORMS
    Name of institution: YALE UNIVERSITY, Department of Geology and Geophysics
    City: New Haven, USA

COOPERATION - INSTITUTIONS


  1. Name of institution: Državni hidrometeorološki zavod
    Type of institution: Institution whose primary activities ar
    City: 10000 - Zagreb, Croatia

  2. Name of institution: Yale University
    Type of institution: University/Faculty
    Type of cooperation: Joint project
    City: New Haven, USA

  3. Name of institution: Zentralanstalt fuer Meteorologie und Geodynamik
    Type of institution: Institution whose primary activities ar
    Type of cooperation: Joint project
    City: Beč, Austrija

  4. Name of institution: METEO-FRANCE
    Type of institution: State administration
    Type of cooperation: Systematic exchange of experts
    City: Toulouse, Francuska
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