Institute of Hydrometeorology

and Seismology

of Montenegro

Institute of Hydrometeorology and Seismology of Montenegro is formed by Decree on the organization and manner of work of Public

Administration, 23 January 2012, by merging two institutions:

Director of the IHMS

Deputy Director

Sector for Weather

Forecast and Meteorologiical

Monitoring

Department for

Weather Forecast

and Analysis

Department of

Meteorological

Monitoring

Sector for Meteorolo

gy

Department of

Climatology

Department for

Applied Meteorolo

gy

Deputy Director

Sector for Hydrology

Department for

Hydrological Network

stations

Department for

Hydrological

Analyisis

Sector for Air and Water Quality testing

Department for Air Quality

Department for Water Quality

Deputy Director

Sector for Seismolog

y

Departmemnt

for Instrument

al and Engeneerin

g Seismology

Department for

Analysis and

Processing of

Seismological data

Sector for Hydrography

and Oceanography

Department fro

Hydrography

Department for

Oceanography and

Mareography

Department for Meteorological and Seismological Information System and Maintenance

Service for general and finance matters

Department for information and international cooperation

Organisational Chart of the Institute of Hydrometeorology and Seismologyof Montenegro

Group ofNumerical modelling

Group ofSatellite and Radar Meteorology

Climate of Montenegro

� The geographical position of Montenegro determines its climate as the dominant Mediterranean

� The southern part is characterized by pure Mediterranean climate

(with long, hot and dry summers and relatively mild and rainy winters)

� The central part and one part of the North have the characteristics of mountain climate with evident influence of the Mediterranean Sea

(which is reflected through the precipitation regime and higher mean temperatures in the coldest months)

The far northern part of the country has a continental climate

(with characteristic large daily and annual temperature fluctuations and low annual rainfall )

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MAIN STATIONS

1. ULCINJ

2. BAR

3. H.NOVI

4. PODGORICA

5. NIKŠIĆ

6. KOLAŠIN

7. ŽABLJAK

8. PLJEVLJA

9. CETINJE

10. BERANE

Observations on main stations are done hourly, and

data are available on www.meteo.co.me

Aeronautical meteorologicalStations:

1. Tivat and2. Golubovci

9 AWS –Lambrecht, Germany, 7 sensors, GPRScommunications3 AWS – OTT Hydrometrie, 3 sensors, GSM communications

Climate services to agricultural sector

� Drought monitoring (using SPI index and satellite data for FVC(Fraction Vegetation Cover index) and LAI (Leaf Area Index) for thevineyards AD Plantaze

� analysis and monitoring of the soil temperature

� Agricultural bulletin based on climate services→

� Activities within the project: Drought Management Centre for South-Eeastern Europe – DMCSEE, http://www.dmcsee.org/

� data about the values of meteorological parameters on the request for scientific work and research in agriculture

� information on analysis of phenological data according to customer requirements and other types of information related to agriculture A few years ago, IHMS

processed meteorological danger indices of occurrence of forest fires, "the state of risk of fire on that day“- FWI.

CLIDATA

Since October 2008, in operational use is CLIDATA - a system for storing climatological data prepared in accordance with the WMO recommendations and standards in this area.

There are available products derived from CLIDATA

The reference climatological period in use is 1961-1990

Department for Agrometeorology has two operational databases: one with data from 25 phenologicalstations and database on soil temperature with 11 agrometeorological stations. Phenological base contains data divided in 7 basic categories, which are as follows: fruit growing, wine grape, agriculture, forest trees, herbal diseases and pests, beekeeping and general field works.Database on soil temperatures contains data on temperatures on seven depths: 2, 5, 10, 20, 30, 50 and100cm.

Phenological database

Network of meteorological and hydrological stations

� Meteorological:

� Density of the stations 6.88/1000 km2 up to 2010;

� 9 main, 18 climatological, 67 rainfall (in 2010);

� Rapid decrease of precipitation station from 2011 – around 20 currently in function.

� Hydrological:

� 51 stations for water level;

� Part of them automatic on the main rivers of Adriatic and Black sea catchment.

Network of meteorological stations

Network of automated hydrological stations

User interface Platforms

Requests for data can be submitted via IHMS web page:www.meteo.co.me or by sending a fulfilled request for data on official mail address:office@meteo.co.me .

The request can be downloaded from IHMS web page.

After receiving the request the person in charge for this domain send the confirmation of receipt of the request to its sender and the information that the request will be processed within determined legal time limit (till 15 days).

The received request must be recorded in the IHMS archive and then forwarded to the Director/Deputy director who delegates the person who will process the request and contact the sender in case of further information/clarification needed or just send the requested information/data.

THANK YOU FOR

YOUR ATTENTION!

Miras Drljevic, Msc. AgricultureSenior Adviser, Sector of Applied Meteorology