Resume: BRANKO GRISOGONO

Born: Virovitica, Croatia, Summer 1959

 

 

 

EMPLOYMENT & DUTIES:

2007 →…, Dept. of Geophysics, Faculty of Science, Univ. of Zagreb, Zagreb, Professor

Spent ~15 years abroad (USA & Sweden)

2003-2007, Dept. of Geophysics, Fac. of Sci., Univ. of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

1997-2003, Dept. of Meteorology (MISU), Stockholm Univ., Sweden, Associate Professor

1998-2002, Visiting professor at Dept. of Geophysics, Univ. of Zagreb, teaching a graduate course in atmospheric turbulence

1996-97, Dept. of Meteorology (MIUU), Uppsala Univ., Sweden, Assoc. Prof.

1993-95, --||--, Postdoc, later Assist. Prof.

1992, Desert Research Institute (DRI), Univ. of Nevada-Reno (UNR), USA, postdoc

1989-1992, --||--, research assistant & PhD student

1984-1988, Dept. of Geophysics, Faculty of Sci., Univ. of Zagreb, teaching assistant (Problem-solving exercises with students in Phys. Meteorol., Dyn. Meteorol., Agroclimatol., taking graduate courses and regular meteorol. measurements at the Observatory of Grič, Zagreb, with a break in 9/1986-9/1987)

1986-1987, mandatory military service

1983, Dept. of Geophysics, Faculty of Sci., Univ. of Zagreb, technician/assistant (regular meteorological measurements at the observatory of Grič, Zagreb, etc.)

 

EDUCATION & SPECIALIZATION

2016, 15 days visit to Jielun Sun at MMM, NCAR/UCAR, Boulder, CO, USA, https://video.ucar.edu/mms/mmm/2016/b_grisogono.mp4

2014, Workshop on Advances in Meso- and Micro-Meteorology, 3-4 Nov. 2014, Donja Stubica, N. Croatia; http://www.pmf.unizg.hr/geof/znanost/meteorologija/workshop_meso-micrometeorology

2012, Two months scientific visit to UIB, Palma de Mallorca, collaborating with Joan Cuxart and Maria Antonia Jiménez (sea-land breeze, mesoscale eddies, etc.)

2012, Workshop on Mesometeorology, 18–20 June 2012, Ekopark "Kraš" near Zagreb, Croatia; http://meteo.hr/WS_2012/

2011, "International Symposium on Lightning Protection in climate models" , 12–14 October 2011, Kathmandu, Nepal (invited as a resource person for mesoscale-meteorology aspects of lightning);

2008, "Heat, mass & momentum transfer in katabatic winds over glaciers & ice sheets: towards a better formulation of the lower boundary condition in climate models", Mini-conference, 15-16 January 2008, IMAU, Utrecht, the Netherlands

2006, Advanced Research Workshop for experts on PBLs, Dubrovnik, Croatia

1997, One-week workshop for experts in very stable ABLs, Umeå, Sweden

1996, Course for teachers at Swedish universities (one of the requirements for Swedish 'docent'), Uppsala, Sweden

1996, Airborne field experiment, USA, ‘Coastal Waves’ (1998, Bull. Amer. Met. Soc. 79, 1307-1326.)

1996, COMET, Mesoscale Meteorology Course for University Faculty, Norman, OK (UCAR), USA

1996-97, Visiting scientist (a few times, 3 months total), coastal meteorology, at Scripps Inst. of Ocean., La Jolla, California, USA

1992, a 2^nd field experiment in Mohave desert, USA

1992, PhD in physics, DRI, UNR, USA

1991, Radar meteorology (PhD field course), Greeley, Colorado, USA (1993, Bull. Amer. Met. Soc. 74, 17-22.)

1989, a 1^st field experiment in Mohave desert, USA

1989, Airborne measurements (PhD field course), NCAR, Boulder, Colorado, USA (1990, Bull. Amer. Met. Soc. 71, 1637-1641.)

1987, M.S. Faculty of Sci., Univ. of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

1983, B.S. --------||--------

1995, 25 years of education <=> (8 elementary + 4 gymnasium + 4 undergrad + 2 master + 4 PhD + 3 postdoc) years

 

PhD STUDENTS

13. Petar Golem, 2021 →… (~40% supervision) - On the effects of orography on Bora wind turbulence.

12. Mario Hrastinski, 2016 →… (~40% supervision) - Improvement of turbulence parameterization in ALADIN model.

11. Goran Gašparac, Zagreb 2012-12/2020 (~40% supervision) - On mesoscale meteorological modeling, coupling atmospheric-chemistgry system.

10. Tanja Likso, Zagreb 2009 – 07/2012 (~70% supervision) - Estimation of wind speed in the suburban atmospheric surface layer.

9. Damir Počakal, Zagreb 2009 – 04/2012 - Hailstone energy in the continental part of Croatia.

8. Željko Večenaj, Zagreb 06/2006 – 02/2012 - Characteristics of the Bora related turbulence.

7. Mladen Viher, Zagreb 10/2007 - 06/2011 - Influence of tropospheric dynamics processes on nonstandard radiowave refraction phenomena.

6. Višnja Vučetić, Zagreb - 06/2011 - Modelling of climate change impact on maize yields in Croatia.

5. Iva Kavčič, Zagreb 2005 – 07/2010 - Modeling of atmospheric boundary layers with a contribution to the theory of singularly perturbed problems.

4. Amela Jeričević, Zagreb 2007-09/2009, EMEP Project - Parameterization of vertical diffusion in an atmospheric chemical model.

3. Maja Telišman-Prtenjak, Zagreb 2003-03/2006 - Numerical simulations of the sea/land breezes along north-eastern Adriatic coast.

2. Oskar Parmhed, Stockholm 1998-06/2004 (75% of supervision) - Near-surface atmospheric flow over high latitude glaciers.

1. Stefan Söderberg, Stockholm 1998-03/2004 (20% of supervision) - Mesoscale dynamics and boundary-layer structure in topographically forced low-level jets.

Over 10 M.S. or/& licentiate & PhD students in Uppsala, Stockholm and Zagreb, and over 40 diploma (co-)supervisions in Zagreb.

 

TEACHING - Recent

Dynamic Meteorology, senior undergraduate level (2003 →... )

Selected Chapters in Atmospheric Turbulence, graduate level (2008 →... )

Mesoscale Dynamics, senior undergraduate level (Univ. of Vienna, 2012)

Seminar in Dynamic Meteorology, senior undergraduate level (2003 →…)

Mesoscale Meteorology, graduate level (2011 →… together with Vanda Grubišić)

Seminar in Geophysics, graduate level (2008-2019 together with Davorka Herak)

 

TEACHING – Former

Mesoscale Meteorology, senior undergraduate level (Uppsala 1996-2003 on/off, Stockholm 1998-2002 on/off)

An Intro. to Numerical Modeling, senior undergraduate level (Stockholm 1997-1999)

Mesoscale Meteorology, senior graduate level (one of 3 teachers, Stockholm, 2000)

Intro. to Numerical Modeling, senior undergraduate & junior graduate level (Akure & Ile-Ife universities, Nigeria, Africa, 2002)

Selected Chapters in Atmospheric Turbulence and Diffusion, graduate level Zagreb (1998-2006)

Meteorological Practicum – Intro. to numerical modeling, senior undergraduate level (2003-2007, 2020)

Meteorological Practicum (2003-2011)

 

BOARDS & COMMITTEES

- 2019-2021, a reviewer (among the thousands of experts) of the '6^th IPCC, 2021', report (for 3 chapters)

- 2018, External evaluator for professorship in climatology at SHMI, Sweden

- 2013-2015, Member of the Board for Natural Sciences of the Croatian Science Foundation (See also Hrvatska zaklada za znanost)

- 2014, Member of the Governing council of the "Ruđer Bošković Institute"

- 2013-2017, Member of the Main Board of the Field of Physics and Geophysics, Croatia

- 2012 -> 2018, Vice-director of PhD studies of Physics at the Faculty of Sci.

- 2012, Workshop on Mesometeorology, 18-20 June 2012, Ekopark “Kraš” near Zagreb; http://meteo.hr/WS_2012/

- 2011, Member of International Program Committee for the ICAM

- 2009-2013, Vice-president of the Main Board of the Field of Physics and Geophysics, Croatia

- 2008, Member of International Program Committee for the conference “Mesoscale Meteorology and Air Pollution”, http://www.conf.osenu.org.ua/

- 2008 - 06/2011, Member of the Edit. Board of ‘Advances in Meteorology’

- 2007 -> 2018, Leader of PhD studies in Geophysics [within Physics]

- 2007-2008 (On/Off), Court expert for meteorology regarding tragic fire on the island of Kornat at the central NE Adriatic sea in 2007.

- 2007-2017, Member of ICAM Steering Committee (International Conference on Alpine Meteorology), occasionally a member of the related Sci. Program Committees

- 2007, Guest Editor for a special issue of ‘Boundary-Layer Meteorology’ related to NATO ARW PBLs, vol. 125, No. 2 (details also at: http://pbl-nato-arw.dmi.dk/), also hardcover

- 2007 - 05/2009, Editorial Board of ‘Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics’

- 2007 →…, Editorial Board of ‘Geofizika’

- 2006, Co-director of NATO Advanced Research Workshop “Atmospheric Planetary Boundary Layers (PBLs): Modelling & Application to Environmental Security”, http://pbl-nato-arw.dmi.dk/

- 2006, Guest Editor for a special issue of ‘Meteorologische Zeitschrift’ related to ICAM2005, http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/schweiz/mz

- 2005, Chair of the Scientific Programme- & member of the Organizing Committee for the 28^th International Conference on Alpine Meteorology, ICAM/MAP2005, http://www.map.meteoswiss.ch/map-doc/icam2005/

- 2003 →…, Advisory (≈Editorial) Board of ‘Tellus’, journal of the Swedish Geophysical Society, see: http://www.tellusa.net/index.php/tellusa/index Q1 in Oceanography and Q2 in Atmospheric Science.

 

PUBLICATIONS

Over 90 peer-reviewed articles (Current Contents or Science Citation Index) mostly on boundary-layers, atmospheric buoyancy waves, coastal & mountain meteorology and climatology; one of the higher cumulative impact factors among Croatian geophysicists (published with over 150 coauthors from 5 continents).

Over 100 conference contributions.

Main contributions – airflow over double bell-shaped mountains; inclusion of the WKB method into geophysical boundary-layer studies (a new modeling approach); Coriolis effect on sloped boundary-layers; behind orographic-wave breaking; mixing length-scale over sloped terrain; mixing-length scale parameterization for very stable boundary layers; turbulence of severe downslope windstorms, etc.

Cited about 2370 times by Web of Science, Thompson Reuters, or over 2550 times by Scopus base, or over 3710 times by Google Scholar, h index: 28, 29 and 34 by Web of Science, Scopus and Google Scholar (with i10 index: 63), respectively.

Cumulative impact factor over 410.

Invited over 10 times per year to contribute to conferences, workshops and solicited seminars.

Invited every year into editorial boards of various scientific journals.

 

SCI. PROJECTS

PI on 3 national and 2 international projects (at the Univ. level) since 2005, CoPI on several former international projects. A national project, BORA, has been one of the few most productive projects in Geosciences financed by the Croatian Ministry of ScXience, Education and Sports (2007-2014).

Collaborator on Viticulture and Climate Change in Croatia, 2017-2019, VITCLIC, and SWALDRIC - a collaboration with ETHZ, Switzerland, PI's are Christoph Schär and Maja Telišman-Prtenjak.

 

PEER-REVIEWING

Over 150 times for journals including: Annales of Geophysics, Acta Geophys., Bound.-Lay. Meteorol., Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., Env. Fluid Mech., Frontiers in Earth Sci., J. Appl. Meteor. (and Climatol.), J. Atmos. Sci., J. Eng. Math., J. Fluid Mech., J. Geophys. Res., J. Glaciol., Meteor. Atmos. Phys., Meteor. Z., Mon. Wea. Rev., Quart. J. Roy. Met. Soc., Tellus, Wind Energy, AMS Monographs, etc.

Serving in PhD committees for over 45 dissertations in 11 countries (chronologically: Sweden, Croatia, Italy, Finland, the Netherlands, Sri Lanka, Austria, France, the USA, Slovenia and Germany)

External examiner, i.e., opponent, at PhD defenses:

     - Laura Rontu, Helsinki, 10/2007: Studies on orographic effects in a numerical weather prediction model.

     - Muhammad Raza Ranjha, Stockholm, 2013: Global climatology and regional modeling of coastal low-level jets.

Reviewing for sci.-research funding agencies including: NSF, BSF (USA), NERC (England), Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung (Austria), NSF (Estonia), ANR (France), UKF (Croatian Ministry of Sci. Edu. & Sports), Slovenian Res. Agency, Leibniz Collaborative Excellence (Germany), etc.

Reviewed a few chapters of the IPCC 6 scientific part of the report, 2021.

Reviewed the new sci.-edu. program in Geophysics, Univ. of Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2009.