Contact:
Dr. Nedjeljka Žagar
Chair of Meteorology, Department of Physics
Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
University of Ljubljana

Phone: 386-1-4766642, Room no.116
Email: nedjeljka.zagar at fmf.uni-lj.si
Mailing address: Jadranska 19, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

I received my BSc and MSc in physics/atmospheric physics from the Faculty of Sciences at the University of Zagreb and my PhD from the Department of Meteorology at the Stockholm University . The title of my doctoral dissertation was "Dynamical aspects of atmospheric data assimilation in the tropics". My post-doctoral fellowship was awarded by the Advanced Study Program at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, where I worked on the large-scale dynamics and data assimilation.

My research interests range from modelling the mid-latitude mesoscale weather to large-scale tropical variability. One of my main research topics is data assimilation modelling and, in particular, the modelling of the background-error covariances with focus on balance issues. I am applying the normal-mode function representation to understand the atmospheric energetics, the global unbalanced circulation, its numerical modeling and data assimilation.

Teaching: Introduction to Meteorology, Weather analysis and forecasting, Dynamical meteorology.


Ongoing publications:

Žagar, N. et al., 2013: Uncertainties in a regional climate model in the mid-latitudes due to the nesting technique and the domain size. JGR-Atmosphere. Submitted.

Blazica, V. N. Žagar, B. Strajnar and J. Cedilnik, 2013: Rotational and divergent kinetic energy in the mesoscale model ALADIN. Tellus A, 65, 18918. (pdf)

Žagar, N. et al., 2013: Balance properties of the short-range forecast errors in the ECMWF 4D-Var ensemble. QJRMS, available online at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/qj.2033/abstract