Crometeo
Encyclopedia
Crometeo is a non-profit association of Croatia
n amateur
meteorologists
. It was founded in November 2005, and its headquarters are in Zagreb
, Croatia
. Its main goals are monitoring and forecasting weather
, popularization of meteorology
, installation of a linked network of automatic weather station
s in Croatia with the data from the stations available on-line, and maintaining the meteorological webapge and the forum
. Its president is Kristijan Božarov and beside Croatian members it has many associates from other, mainly neighbouring countries.
In recent years the association gained popularity in Croatian media
for its weather forecasts and articles relating to weather, climate
, meteorology and environment
.
There are two very important projects of Crometeo team. Automatic weather stations network, found at http://www.pljusak.com and numerical weather forecasting site with NCEP GFS and Crometeo WRF-NMM and WRF-ARW high-resolution mesomodel products at http://maps.meteoadriatic.net
Croatia
Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...
n amateur
Amateur
An amateur is generally considered a person attached to a particular pursuit, study, or science, without pay and often without formal training....
meteorologists
Meteorology
Meteorology is the interdisciplinary scientific study of the atmosphere. Studies in the field stretch back millennia, though significant progress in meteorology did not occur until the 18th century. The 19th century saw breakthroughs occur after observing networks developed across several countries...
. It was founded in November 2005, and its headquarters are in Zagreb
Zagreb
Zagreb is the capital and the largest city of the Republic of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb lies at an elevation of approximately above sea level. According to the last official census, Zagreb's city...
, Croatia
Croatia
Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...
. Its main goals are monitoring and forecasting weather
Weather
Weather is the state of the atmosphere, to the degree that it is hot or cold, wet or dry, calm or stormy, clear or cloudy. Most weather phenomena occur in the troposphere, just below the stratosphere. Weather refers, generally, to day-to-day temperature and precipitation activity, whereas climate...
, popularization of meteorology
Meteorology
Meteorology is the interdisciplinary scientific study of the atmosphere. Studies in the field stretch back millennia, though significant progress in meteorology did not occur until the 18th century. The 19th century saw breakthroughs occur after observing networks developed across several countries...
, installation of a linked network of automatic weather station
Automatic weather station
An automatic weather station is an automated version of the traditional weather station, either to save human labour or to enable measurements from remote areas...
s in Croatia with the data from the stations available on-line, and maintaining the meteorological webapge and the forum
Internet forum
An Internet forum, or message board, is an online discussion site where people can hold conversations in the form of posted messages. They differ from chat rooms in that messages are at least temporarily archived...
. Its president is Kristijan Božarov and beside Croatian members it has many associates from other, mainly neighbouring countries.
In recent years the association gained popularity in Croatian media
News media
The news media are those elements of the mass media that focus on delivering news to the general public or a target public.These include print media , broadcast news , and more recently the Internet .-Etymology:A medium is a carrier of something...
for its weather forecasts and articles relating to weather, climate
Climate
Climate encompasses the statistics of temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, wind, rainfall, atmospheric particle count and other meteorological elemental measurements in a given region over long periods...
, meteorology and environment
Natural environment
The natural environment encompasses all living and non-living things occurring naturally on Earth or some region thereof. It is an environment that encompasses the interaction of all living species....
.
There are two very important projects of Crometeo team. Automatic weather stations network, found at http://www.pljusak.com and numerical weather forecasting site with NCEP GFS and Crometeo WRF-NMM and WRF-ARW high-resolution mesomodel products at http://maps.meteoadriatic.net