Meteorological and Hydrological Service of Croatia

Ivan ČačićDirector

PR of Croatia with WMO

www.meteo.hr

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• national centre of exellence based on high standards of scientific,

professional and technical resources for the production, collection and dissemination of high-quality meteorological and hydrological information

• basic tasks are stipulated by the Law on Meteorological and Hydrological Activities in Croatia (to provide support to economic

development, environment protection, to act towards the preservation of life and material goods from natural hazards and disasters and to mitigate their consequences)

• represents Republic of Croatia at the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), EUMETSAT, ECMWF, EUMETNET, ECOMET, GEO, GCOS, IPCC, numerous associations and commissions including Joint WMO-IOC Technical Commission for Oceanography and Marine Meteorology - JCOMM

Meteorological and Hydrological Service of Croatia

Observational classical meteorological network

41

117

336

Winter

Main Station

Zavizan

Main Station

Zavizan

Summer

41 main met stations

117 climatological stations

336 rainguage stations

452 hydrlogical stations

2 Dopler S Band Weather Radars

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77 Automatic Weather Stations

1979 – the first automatic

meteorological station at

Vir island in central Adriatic

Automatic meteorological network

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472 AWS

5/6 moored buoys

2 radiosonding stations

3 wind – profilers

3 lidars

6 C weather radars Doppler Dual polar. (3 radars at Adriatic area)

Modernization of meteorological network

EU Project of 28M€ for the period 2015-2022

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DHMZ leadership in observations and measurement standards

• Long lasting experience in collection and dissemination of observations (Dubrovnik 1851, Zagreb-Grič 1861)

• Coordinator / integrator of the national meteorological, hydrological and oceanographic observation data through the new

WMO Information System – WIS

WMO Integrated Global Observing System – WIGOS

• Laboratory for Meteorological instrument Calibration is performing under the ISO 17 025 acreditation

Observations

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CROATIA - MARITIME COUNTRY

• Total population 4,4 million

• Land Area: 56.000 km2

• Sea Area: 30.000 km2

• Lenght of coastline 6287 km

• 1246 islands of which 47 populated

• Semi-closed sea basin

• 6 major ports, 98 ports with ship lines, 407 small ports and marines

• Ship lines traffic: 11 mil. passengers, 2.8 mil. vehicles

• Total number of passengers: 12 mil.

• 539 yachts and 103.945 boats registered

• visit of 54.000 foreign yachts /year for recreational tourism

• 30.000 seasurfers

• Search & rescue /year: ~800 rescued persons,~200 rescued vessels

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Risk assesment and high impact costal zones areas

Maps of marine traffic risk zonesEastern Adriatic

Highest risk to ship collisions Highest risk to ships groundings

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Risk assesment and high impact costal zones areas

Weather conditions

10m Wind atlasHigh impact coastal zones

High impact costal zones areasEastern Adriatic

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ALADIN/HR meteo mesoscale numerical model

Horizontal resolution:

Operational: 8 km

Experimental: 4 km

Coupling model: ECMWF

Coupling frequency: 3 hours

Forecast range: +72hours

Output every: 1 hour

Run: 00, 06, 12 and 18 UTC

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Resolution

Operational: 2 x 2 km

Experimental : 1 x 1 km

Dynamical adaptation of wind

ALADIN/HR public data

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DHMZ center for marine meteoroly - PMC

at Split and Rijeka harbours

• PMC is national marine meteorological call service linked to DHMZ in Zagreb

data production

and WIS center

• PMC is equipped with

technical resources

trained Marine weather forecasters - MWF

IT operators

Split

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DHMZ center for marine meteoroly - PMC

at Split and Rijeka harbours

Marine weather forecasters work in shifts and provide

marine weather watch

weather and marine phenomena forecast

issues multi language warnings for hazardous phenomena at inner seas and coastal areas

support of port meteorological officers services

Marine services for Search and Rescue actions (SAR)

services for prevention, preparedness and response regardig Major Marine Pollution Incidents

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RA VI WIS/WIGOS Workshop on Enhanced Marine Services for Adriatic Sea Area, 17-18 May 2012, Zagreb, Croatia

Workshop was strongly supported by

WMO secretariat in particular RA VI Office for Europe

CBS, JCOMM

Participating NHMSs

• Bosnia and Herzegovina

• Croatia• Italy• Montnegro• Romania - observer• Slovenia

Adriatic Marine Meteorological Center (AMMC)

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Outcomes

• Zagreb Initiative agreement ( BIH, CRO, IT, MNE, SLO) to

establish regional coperation of NMHSs and their parter organizations on coordinated actions on marinemeteorological services at Adriatic sea area

Accept the offer of Croatia to implement WIS-DCPC / WIGOS Centre

• Pilot Project for sub-regional cooperation in the provision of marine services as a WIS / WIGOS component over AdriaticSea area as a template for small / inner seas

RA VI WIS/WIGOS Workshop on Enhanced Marine Services for Adriatic Sea Area, 17-18 May 2012, Zagreb, Croatia

Adriatic Marine Meteorological Center (AMMC)

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• DHMZ presented AMMC / DHMZ activities at the EMODnet Physics

Adriatic session, 3-4 December 2013, Split, Croatia

• DHMZ proactively participated at 7th EuroGOOS Conference, 28 – 30

October 2014,Lisbon, Portugal, including

AMMC poster presetation

paper on the AMMC activities

• DHMZ is a new member of MonGOOS / EuroGOOS, 3rd Annual

meeting, 26-28 2014 November, Lecce, Italy

• DHMZ organized Study tour (20-22 April 2015) for the EuroGOOS

chair, dr Erik Buch

visit of several marine facilities and PMC meetings with national marine / oceanographic parters:

Institute for Oceanography and Fisheries,

Hydrographic institute,

Geophysics Institute, Plovput service

DHMZ approach to EuroGOOS

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Perspective of DHMZ contribution to EuroGOOS

• Strengthen collaboration between GOOS / EuroGOOS and WMO communitiesin particular marine meteorological and oceanographic services

• Contribute to a partnership, complementary roles / performance joined capacity development

of NMHSs and parter organizations oceanographic / hydrographic / water management / Academia

from national to sub-regional and regional level

• Contribute to the planning and optimization of meteorological and marine / oceanographic observations and services at the Adriatic Sea area as in accordance to appropriate standards , including standards related to WIS / WIGOS

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Severe cold events

Senj, 1929

Senj, 1956 Senj, 2012

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