Doctoral thesis, which has been supervised by Nedjeljka Žagar, is related to the following keywords: modelling / ALADIN model / weather forecasting / mesoscale / atmosphere / kinetic energy / divergence.
D.09 Tutoring for postgraduate students
COBISS.SI-ID: 311721Doctoral thesis, which has been supervised by Andreja Gomboc, is related to the following keywords: gamma-ray bursts / astronomical observations / X-ray spectroscopy / optical polarimetry / galaxies / cosmology
D.09 Tutoring for postgraduate students
COBISS.SI-ID: 2566500Within the Centre of Excellence SPACE-SI the atmospheric research group has been carrying out several projects related to the use of satellite observation of the atmosphere, weather, climate and pollution modelling. Results of the pollution prediction project are made available online at http://meteo.fmf.uni-lj.si/onesnazenje in addition to earlier presented high-resolution weather forecast http://meteo.fmf.uni-lj.si/vreme which is available also within Geopedia on http://vreme.geopedia.si/. The project involved also collaboration with the Slovenina Evironmental Agency ARSO, www.arso.si, and the use of ALADIN-SI products. It represents the most sophisticated coupled meteorological and chemical transport system in use for research and development not only in Slovenia but much wider in this part of Europe. In contrary to the traditional pollution modelling, which considers only meteorological conditions on the pollutants with a coarser time step, the coupled modelling allows the maximal use of meteorological input infromation for the environmental application while at the same time allowing pollutants to impact the physical state of the atmosphere.
F.10 Improvements to an existing technological process or technology
COBISS.SI-ID: 313001Quaterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society (ISSN: 1477-870X) has the highest reputation among all scientific journals from the field of meteorology in Europe. It impact factor is 3.327, which places it as the 13th most important journal for the fields of meteorology and atmosphere sciences among the 74 ranked journals, accordint to the ISI Journal Citation Reports © Ranking: 2012. Nedjeljka Žagar became its associate editor in 2013. List of editors is available at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1477-870X/homepage/EditorialBoard.html .
C.04 Editorial board of an international magazine
The programme group is responsible for the entire university level education in meteorology and astrophysics in Slovenia. This sums up to some 20 courses at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics and at other faculties of the University of Ljubljana. Considering that these lectures are given by just 4 teachers of our programme group, and that many courses, despite their optional nature, have over 50 students, it is clear that our programme group has an exceptional teaching load. The programme group is very active in science outreach and in communicating scientific results to the general public. We do: (1) our own daily weather forecast calculated with increased spatial resolution and a detailed forecast of air quality, both published on our webpage meteo.fmf.uni-lj.si/) (2) daily astronomical news digest (www.portalvvesolje.si/) and translation of astronomy picture of the day (apod.fmf.uni-lj.si), (3) monthly public lectures for the general public within a lecture series entitled "A journey through the Universe (www.portalvvesolje.si )dogodki), (4) open days and nights on the occasions of season changes at the Astronomical observatory Golovec (astro.fmf.uni-lj.si), (5) preparation and organization of the monthly radio broadcast "Frequency X" with an astronomical topic, which airs on the 2nd programme of the national radio (Val 202, www.val202.si/frekvencax/), (6) contribution to educational and news programmes of the national TV (Ugriznimo znanost, Dobra ura, Odmevi, 24 ur, etc.), (7) translation and publication of astronomical and meteorological learning materials and professional publications and of the yearly astronomical ephemeris Naše nebo (Our sky), (8) organization of competitions in astronomy knowledge for primary and secondary school pupils (some 3000 participated in 2013), the quality of this activity has been demonstrated by awards won by the Slovene team at the 7th International astronomy olympiad 2013 in Volos, Greece.
D.10 Educational activities