Abstract
This article presents the findings from measurements of winter minimum temperatures taken over a period of several years in the high mountain karst depression of Valoviti Do on the Durmitor massif (Montenegro), and compares them with temperatures measured in the network of official stations operated by the Montenegro Hydrometeorological Institute. We took into consideration meteorological stations that are located in the coldest sites of Montenegro. The results of the measurements showed that winter minimum temperatures in high mountain depressions of Montenegro are considerably lower than the temperatures measured in the framework of the national network of meteorological stations, which are rarely located in the mountain environment. In the course of taking measurements in five nonconsecutive winter seasons in the period from 2007 to 2015 we also measured the lowest temperature recorded to date in Montenegro, -40 °C.
Highlights
Very little of the area of the country of Montenegro is found at low elevations due to the narrowness of its coastal zone and its highly dissected relief
Conditions for the breakdown of the polar vortex are well described by the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO)
The analysis of minimum air temperatures in the 2007/2008, 2010/2011, 2011/2012, 2012/2013 and 2014/2015 winter seasons included the three that are among the coldest meteorological stations in the national network of the Montenegro Hydrometeorological Institute (Žabljak, el. 1450 m; Rožaje, el. 1007 m; Kolašin, el. 944 m) and the measuring spot Valoviti Do in a high mountain karst depression on Durmitor
Summary
Very little of the area of the country of Montenegro is found at low elevations due to the narrowness of its coastal zone and its highly dissected relief. The highest main meteorological station, which is the highest meteorological station in Montenegro, is located at an elevation of 1450 m on Žabljak, on the Jezera Plateau (Jezerska Površ) at the edge of the Durmitor Massif in the northern part of the country. Of the remaining meteorological stations that measure air temperature, only two lie at an elevation above 1000 m, the Rožaje meteorological station (1007 m) and the Krstac meteorological station (1017 m). This means that for the 15% of the territory of Geographica Pannonica Volume 22, Issue 4, 241–252 (December 2018) 241
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