Department of Geophysics, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb


Micrometeorological measurements on...

In collaboration with the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, a micrometeorological station was installed on 31 August 2018 on Lake Balaton in Hungary. The station was set up by members of the Geophysical Department: dr. sc. Željko Večenaj, assistant professor and senior technician Damir Ptičar with PhD student Mislav Anić from the Croatian Forest Research Institute. The collaboration is a part of the bilateral project "FIrst MicrOmeteorological research within CROatian-HUNgarian collaboration – FIMO-CROHUN".

The station is located at the south-east part of Balaton Lake, in the area of Keszthely at the depth of 2 m. It consists of two sonic anemometers at heights 3 m and 7 m from the mean water level (sampling frequency 10 Hz), air temperature and relative humidity probe at the 2 m height from mean water level (sampling frequency 1 Hz) and six thermistors for water temperature set at equal distances between 10 cm from the bottom of the lake and the water surface (sampling frequency 1 min).

The station is a part of an intensive measurement campaign on Lake Balaton performed by the Budapest University of Technology and Economics in an effort of better understanding the influence of atmosphere on the lake dynamics.

In the campaign, besides the station at the south-east part of the lake, there are also two similar stations (in the middle of the lake and the northern shore), a SODAR and a drone with a telemetric probe released at regular intervals.

Author: Iva Dasović
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