Meteorology
Geosciences

The Winds of the Mediterranean Region

• Introduction / technical notes:
  • Topography
  • Major Wind Types
  • Output - Wind Locations
  • Climatology
  • Special Sensor Microwave/Imager (SSM/I) Signatures
  • Subjective 500 MB Flow Patterns
• Primary Winds:
  • Bora (Bura)
    • Adriatic Sea
      • Koper
      • Trieste
    • Aegean Sea
  • Etesian
  • Levante
  • Maestral (Mistral)
    • Maestral - Mistral
    • The Mistral and the Côte Varois
  • Sirocco (Jugo; Scirocco)
    • Kvarner
  • Westerly
• Secondary winds
  • Burin - a north-easterly, blows in the summer from the mainland
  • Garbin - a west wind and summertime phenomena that occurs for short periods in Venice (up to six hours) with a maximum intensity of 35 knots. Note: the term 'Garbin' is also used in Spain and France but denotes a sea breeze. 
  • Genoa lows
  • Lebić 
  • Pulenat (Punenat) - blows from the West
  • Tramontana
  • Zmorac

Bibliography:

• ACI Club - Weather
• Cruising Guide Publications - Adriatic Cruising Guide
• Istria e costa Dalmata, Istituto Geografico DeAgostini (Novara, 1998)
• The Yugoslav Coast, Guide and Atlas, Jugoslavenski Leksikografski Zavod (Zagreb, 1972)
• TZ Primorsko-goranske županije
• POLYtech s.c.r.l. Area Science Park
• Naval Research Laboratory - Marine Meteorology Division, Medex Project 
• http://www.brela.hr/climate.htm
• Adriatic News and Information
• Storms - http://www.morsko-prase.hr/kvarner/kvarner3-e.htm
• http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/~cannon/medports/Venice/Hc_su.html