Nedjeljka Žagar
professor of meteorology
- PhD in dynamical meteorology from Stockholm University, Sweden, 2004
- Post-doctoral fellowship of the Advanced Study Program at NCAR , Boulder, CO, USA, 2007-2008
- full professor at the Department of Physics, UL-FMF, previously assistant (since 2005) and associate (since 2012) professor at UL-FMF.
- Dynamical meteorology
- Numerical Weather Prediction
A real-time representation of atmospheric energy spectra and unbalanced circulation is available on dedicated MODES pages.
Classes
- Thermodynamics and synoptic-scale meteorology (bacherol level)
- Mesoscale meteorology, Data assimilation and Numerical Weather Prediction (master level)
- General circulation (graduate level)
Recent publications
Malacic, V. and N. Žagar, 2019: Seawater Icicles in the Adriatic Sea (northern Mediterranean).
Accepted in Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc. Žagar, N., D. Jelic, M. J. Alexander and E. Manzini, 2018:
Estimating subseasonal variability and trends in global atmosphere using reanalysis data,
Geophy. Res. Let., 45. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL080051 Zaplotnik, Ž., N. Žagar and N. Gustafsson, 2018:
An intermediate-complexity model for the four-dimensional variational data assimilation including moist processes,
Q.J.R. Meteorol. Soc., 144 (715), 1772-1787. Šavli, M., N. Žagar and J.L. Anderson, 2018:
Assimilation of the horizontal line-of-sight winds with a mesoscale EnKF data assimilation system,
Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 144 (716), 2133-2155.
Recently submitted
K. Kosovelj and Coauthors: Modal decomposition of the global response to tropical heating perturbations resembling MJO. To J. Atmos. Sci.
Žagar, N. and Coauthors: Estimating scale-dependent temporal
variability and bias in global models. To Clim. Dyn.