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Bora conference
October 14, 2022.
Karlobag
Did you know that bora is a Croatian phenomenon –
it does not blow anywhere else in the world but only on the eastern coast of the Adriatic?
Bora is a type of severe downslope windstorm. The related wind speed may exceed hurricane speeds and its turbulence is enormous. It is known that Bora is generally stronger, i.e., it attains higher wind speeds, at the north-eastern (NE) Adriatic coast. This, by no means, excludes intensities of Bora flows at the central and more southern Adriatic coast.
For example, in overall the maximum terrain relative difference between surroundings of Senj and Karlobag is about 12 % for Karlobag, i.e., the latter terrain is somewhat higher. But probably more important facts are that around Karlobag the coastline follows more closely the mountain, and the related lee-side terrain is steeper than that at Senj. In other words, in terms of mountain wave dynamics, Karlobag has more preferable lower boundary condition for more intense atmospheric mountain wave-breaking, the consequent lee-side shooting gust flow and eventual “wild” turbulence.
Lectures
- A brief review of bora research – Full Professor Branko Grisogono, PhD, Faculty of Science, Zagreb, Department of geophysics
- Numeric modeling of bora – Ivan Toman PhD, University of Zadar, Department of Maritime Studies
- Bora data analysis – Petar Golem, FSB, Fluid mechanics
- About bora measurement – Assistant Professor Željko Večenaj PhD, Faculty of Science, Zagreb, Department of geophysics
Lecturers
Branko Grisogono, full (tenure) professor at the Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, where he graduated and obtained his master’s degree in 1983 and 1987; received his PhD in physics in 1992 from the Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV, USA; first postdoc in the USA, second in Uppsala, Sweden (40 months in total); he was an associate professor at the University of Uppsala and then at the University of Stockholm, Sweden, from 1996 and 1997 to 2003, when he returned to Zagreb after 15 years of working abroad. He has published more than 85 peer-reviewed scientific papers mainly in journals of significantly above-average impact factors in atmospheric physics and meteorology with climatology. His total impact factor is over 190, he has been cited over 2110 to over 3250 times, depending on the database [W-o-S, Scopus, Google Scholar], so he is one of the most cited Croatian meteorologists [h – index between 27 and 32, i – index 61]. In addition to atmospheric waves and turbulence, he deals with mountain and coastal meteorology and (micro)climatology. He has led or collaborated in numerous international scientific projects. He was or is a member of the editorial boards of several international journals including Tellus A series (since 2003), etc., reviewed over 150 scientific papers and projects (including the IPCC 2021 report, for 3 chapters), participated in over 45 PhD committees in 10 countries on three continents, teaches several university courses in Dynamic Meteorology at all levels, (co-)led 11 PhD dissertations and about 45 diploma or master theses and introduced a few new scientific approaches in mesoscale and microscale meteorology, i.e., in geophysical fluid dynamics.
Ivan Toman was born in 1978 in Zadar, where he finished elementary school in which he also participated in the state physics competition. He attended the Nautical Secondary School (1992 — 1996). In 1996, he enrolled at the Maritime Faculty in Rijeka, majoring in nautical studies, and graduated in November 2000 with the subject “Organization of VTS services in areas of heavy traffic”, earning the title of graduate engineer of maritime transport, majoring in nautical studies.
He sailed on Ferry transport (Tankerska plovidba) ships (ships for the transport of dry and liquid bulk cargoes) from 2001 to 2003 as a trainee and 3rd officer of the deck.
He was employed as a teacher of the nautical group of subjects at the Maritime School in Zadar, where he worked from 2004 to 2016. He worked in the same job at the Traffic and Technical School in Šibenik from 2005 to 2007. He has passed professional exam and supplementary pedagogical-psychological education, as well as an ECDL course. He regularly attends professional seminars and other professional training.
At the Rijeka Maritime College and later at the Maritime Department of the University of Zadar, as an external associate, he holds exercises in the subjects of electronic navigation, ship maintenance, maritime communications and computer application (2004 — 2005; 2010 — 2015). He teaches various courses for seafarers, including work in English for foreign students. He is trained to work on the Transas and Poseidon nautical simulators. He teaches classes on the ships “Queen of the Sea”, “Our sea” and “Jadrolinija” passenger ships. He holds a number of STCW authorizations.
Since 2016, he has been employed at the Maritime Department of the University of Zadar as an assistant. In the same year, he enrolled in a doctoral course in Maritime Studies, majoring in Nautical Sciences at the Maritime Faculty in Rijeka. In June 2022, he defends his doctoral dissertation entitled “The influence of volcanic activity on the dispersion of the position determined by satellite navigation systems”, under the mentorship of prof. PhD Serđa Kos and with the co-mentor associate prof. PhD David Brčić. He is the co-author of 8 published scientific papers, and on 6 of them he is the first author. He is a participant in international conferences and the research project Uniri-tehnic-18-66 at the University of Rijeka.
He actively programs in a number of programming languages, of which he is best in Python. Through active programming, he contributes to the improvement of the official code of the WRF (Weather Research and Forecast) model, which he knows at an expert level. He is the author of the MeteoAdriatic portal, a columnist for the Zadarski list (2005 — 2016) and the eZadar portal (2007 — 2018). He holds a series of professional and scientific lectures (Ruđer Bošković Institute, Rijeka Astronomical Center, Croatia Boat Show, Science Festival, …). He is the co-founder and first president of the Zadar association ZDWireless.
Petar Leman je rođen 1996. godine u Zadru gdje je 2015. godine završio Gimnaziju Franje Petrlića nakon čega je nastavio školovanje na Prirodoslovno-matematičkom fakultetu u Zagrebu – Geofizičkim odsjeku. Na PMF-u je diplomirao 2020. godine sa radom na temu „Analiza vertikalnih strujanja u tropskom konvektivnom graničnom sloju tijekom mjerne kampanje DACCIWA“ te stekao titulu magistra fizike-geofizike.
Kao Slader LLC – freelance studentski mentor je radio od 2018. do 2020. godine, a od siječnja 2021. godine radi kao asistent na projektu HRZZ-a na Fakultetu strojarstva i brodogradnje.
Od programskih jezika najčešće koristi Python i FORTRAN, a iskusan je i sa numeričkim modeliranjem.
Željko Večenaj, assistant professor at the Geophysical Department of the Faculty of Science in Zagreb. He graduated from the Faculty of Science in 2005 on the Graduate Studies in Physics, Geophysics – Meteorology and Physical Oceanography, where he obtained the title of Graduate Engineer in Physics. In 2006, he was briefly employed at the Gymnasium Dr. Ivana Kranjčeva, in Đurđevac as a math and physics teacher. He continues his professional development as a scientific novice – assistant from 2006 to 2012 at PMF, Department of Geophysics in Zagreb, where he received his doctorate in 2012 and obtained the title of Doctor of Physics. From 2012 to 2016, he worked at the same faculty as a researcher – senior assistant, and from 2016 to the present as an assistant professor.
Since 2007, Zvečaj has been training at numerous institutions abroad, especially in Canada, Scotland and the USA, where he has stayed several times. He is a member of several domestic and international meteorological societies, and for his work he has received several awards and recognitions.
As an associate, he worked on numerous domestic and international projects, and in recent years he is working as project manager on economic projects related to micrometeorological measurements, the creation of numerical models, the application of innovative technologies, the creation of studies, etc.
