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Overview

Mirko Orlić is affiliated with the University of Zagreb in Croatia and has contributed to research primarily within Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work focuses significantly on oceanography and atmospheric science, alongside investigations in global and planetary change, earth-surface processes, and ecology.

Their research addresses several major themes including:

  • Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Climate variability and models

Orlić's recent publication record features significant articles on flooding and coastal phenomena, with several appearing in journals such as Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, Progress In Oceanography, and Scientific Reports. Notable papers include:

  • Extreme floods of Venice: characteristics, dynamics, past and future evolution (2021), Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
  • Local and large-scale controls of the exceptional Venice floods of November 2019 (2021), Progress In Oceanography
  • Venice as a paradigm of coastal flooding under multiple compound drivers (2022), Scientific Reports
  • The prediction of floods in Venice: methods, models and uncertainty (2021), Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
  • Experimental evidence of long-term oceanic circulation reversals without wind influence in the North Ionian Sea (2020), Scientific Reports

Frequent collaborators in Orlić's research include Piero Lionello, Christian Ferrarin, Georg Umgiesser, Miroslava Pasarić, and Davide Zanchettin. These co-authors have contributed extensively to the fields connected with coastal flooding and oceanographic processes.

Key publication venues where Orlić has presented research are:

  • Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
  • Progress In Oceanography
  • Scientific Reports
  • Ocean Science
  • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

The scope of Orlić's work spans multiple subfields, with oceanography being the dominant area. Their interdisciplinary approach integrates atmospheric science and earth-surface dynamics, reflecting a broad engagement with processes that influence climate, coastal environments, and ocean circulation.

Best Publications

  • The currents and circulation of the Adriatic Sea

    M Orlic;M Gacic;Pe Laviolette

  • Response of the Adriatic Sea to the bora and sirocco forcing

    M. Orlić;M. Kuzmić;Z. Pasarić

  • Diurnal thermocline oscillations driven by tidal flow around an island in the Middle Adriatic

    Hrvoje Mihanović;Mirko Orlić;Zoran Pasarić

  • February 2003 marine atmospheric conditions and the bora over the northern Adriatic

    Clive Dorman;Clive Dorman;Sandro Carniel;Luigi Cavaleri;Mauro Sclavo

  • Physical forcing and physical/biochemical variability of the Mediterranean Sea: a review of unresolved issues and directions for future research

    P. Malanotte-Rizzoli;V. Artale;G. L. Borzelli-Eusebi;S. Brenner

  • Descriptive model of the northern adriatic

    P Franco;L Jeftic;Pm Rizzoli;A Michelato

  • Adriatic water masses, their rates of formation and transport through the Otranto Strait

    Ivica Vilibić;Mirko Orlić

  • Resonant coupling of a traveling air-pressure disturbance with the east Adriatic coastal waters

    Ivica Vilibić;Nenad Domijan;Mirko Orlić;Nenad Leder

  • A case study of bora-driven flow and density changes on the adriatic shelf (January 1987)

    Gordana Beg Paklar;Vlad Isakov;Darko Koračin;Vassilliki Kourafalou

  • Wintertime buoyancy forcing, changing seawater properties, and two different circulation systems produced in the Adriatic

    Mirko Orlić;Vlado Dadić;Branka Grbec;Nenad Leder

  • Northern Adriatic response to a wintertime bora wind event

    Craig M. Lee;Farid Askari;Jeff Book;Sandro Carniel

  • Adriatic seiche decay and energy loss to the Mediterranean

    Ivana Cerovečki;Mirko Orlić;Myrl C. Hendershott

  • Extreme floods of Venice: characteristics, dynamics, past and future evolution (review article)

    Piero Lionello;David Barriopedro;Christian Ferrarin;Robert J. Nicholls

  • Least-squares tracer analysis of water masses in the South Adriatic (1967 1990)

    Ivica Vilibić;Mirko Orlić

  • Fresh evidence relating the great Adriatic surge of 21 June 1978 to mesoscale atmospheric forcing

    Mirko Orlić;Danijel Belušić;Ivica Janeković;Miroslava Pasarić

  • Local and large-scale controls of the exceptional Venice floods of November 2019

    Christian Ferrarin;Marco Bajo;Alvise Benetazzo;Luigi Cavaleri

  • Istrian Coastal Countercurrent and its year-to-year variability

    Nastjenjka Supić;Mirko Orlić;Danilo Degobbis

  • Vrijeme i klima hrvatskog Jadrana

    Branka Penzar;Ivan Penzar;Mirko Orlić

  • Seasonal and interannual variability of the northern Adriatic surface fluxes

    Nastjenjka Supić;Mirko Orlić

  • Quasi‐periodic bora gusts related to the structure of the troposphere

    Danijel Beluši'c;Miroslava Pasarić;Mirko Orlić

  • Long-term meteorological preconditioning of the North Adriatic coastal floods

    Miroslava Pasarić;Mirko Orlić

Frequent Co-Authors

Ivica Vilibić
Ivica Vilibić Rudjer Boskovic Institute
Georg Umgiesser
Georg Umgiesser National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Sandro Carniel
Sandro Carniel National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Pierre-Marie Poulain
Pierre-Marie Poulain National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics
Christian Ferrarin
Christian Ferrarin National Research Council (CNR)
Piero Lionello
Piero Lionello University of Salento
Craig M. Lee
Craig M. Lee University of Washington
Jacopo Chiggiato
Jacopo Chiggiato National Research Council (CNR)
Clive E. Dorman
Clive E. Dorman University of California, San Diego
Miroslav Gačić
Miroslav Gačić National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics

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