Abstract
The paper is about characteristics analysis of major winds across the Croatian part of the Adriatic Sea and their impact on organization of sailing ship navigation from prehistory until mid nineteenth century. Research area was divided into northern, middle and southern part of eastern Adriatic, and parameters for three prevailing winds – bora, jugo and mistral, were observed over four climatological seasons and also over annual average values on 18 main meteorological and climatological weather monitoring stations. Information generated from such data was intertwined with archaeological findings from the eastern Adriatic coast and historical writings that witness sailing across the area. Historical writings that were used consist of itineraries and some of the earliest nautical pilots written as a navigational aid for the area of the eastern Adriatic. The prime goal was to determine if there is a correlation between reconstructed sailing routes that existed in times when information about landscape and surrounding occurrences and processes (wind in this case) was collected by observation and contemporary measured data. It was also important to determine if navigation was affected by advances in nautical technology, particularly ship hull and sail construction, and navigation equipment.
Highlights
In the period of continuous valorisation of the Adriatic Sea and its coast, navigation was predominantly preformed using ships powered by sails and oars
U svrhu istraživanja prikupljeni su podatci s osamnaest mjernih postaja odabranih po kriteriju da svojim rasporedom pokrivaju što engines, is not always favourable for sailing. Those differences sometimes manifest as upwind, but the most undesirable situations occur during stormy winds
The prime hypothesis here is that weather conditions in last two millennia have not been significantly changed in terms of wind flows
Summary
UDK: 551.556:(497.5)(210.5)=163.42=111 Izvorni znanstveni rad Original scientific paper. U radu se analiziraju obilježja glavnih vjetrova na hrvatskom dijelu Jadrana i njihov učinak na organizaciju jedrenjačke plovidbe od prapovijesti do sredine 19. Research area was divided into northern, middle and southern part of eastern Adriatic, and parameters for three prevailing winds – bora, jugo and mistral, were observed over four climatological seasons and over annual average values on 18 main meteorological and climatological weather monitoring stations. Information generated from such data was intertwined with archaeological findings from the eastern Adriatic coast and historical writings that witness sailing across the area. Kao glavni porivni energent plovila prije izuma parnog stroja, a potom i motora s
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