Rescue and digitalization of climate records in Bosnia and Herzegovina Zeljko Majstorovic,

Federal Hydro Meteorological Institute B&H, Sarajevo

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Historical owerviev

State meteorological service:

- 1892 – 1914- 1923 – 1941- 1946 – 1996

Federal hydro meteorological institute B&H - 1997 – 2007

Hydro meteorological institute of Republic Serbska- 1992 – 2007

Meteorological stations

- 1892 – 1913 – about 70 meteorological stations (with climatological program)

- 1923 – 1941 – about 120 meteorological stations (70 with climatological program and 50 rain gauge stations)

- 1946 – 1996 – about 600 meteorological stations (100 with climatological program and 500 rain gauge stations)

- Most stations had longer interruptions: 1914 – 1922; 1942 – 1945; 1992 – 1996.

Meteorological stations today

- 13 synoptic stations- 40 climatic stations- 20 rain gauge stations

Sarajevo record is only uninterupted record from 1888 to 2007.

Meteorological station in Sarajevo is in the same place since 1902.

Other meteorological stations are built about 1950.

Homogenisation of records

- 5 stations – DHMZ Croatia, within HISTALP project

- Other stations – not included

Meteo Data rescue activities

- Softwares in development:

CLIDATA

ORACLE

- Currently used softwares:

EXCEL

- Percentage of digitized meteorological data:

about 40%

Conclusion:

Permanent import of actual data into this base begun at the beginning of this year and still lasts.

Historical data from EXCEL were imported to CLIDATA.

Our next assignments are expert training in work with ORACLE, and expanding of hardware support.