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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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