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Selected per-reviewed publications since 2004

  • Žagar, N. et al. 2017: Energy spectra and inertia-gravity waves in global analyses. J. Atmos. Sci. 74 (8), 2447-2466. (full text & pdf)
  • Žagar, N., 2017: A global perspective of the limits of prediction skill of NWP models. Tellus A, 69, (1), 1317573. (full text & pdf)
  • Žagar, N. et al. 2017: Scale-dependent estimates of the growth of forecast uncertainties in a global prediction system. Tellus A, 69 (1), 1287492. (full text & pdf)
  • Žagar, N. et al. 2016: Scale-Dependent Representation of the Information Content of Observations in the Global Ensemble Kalman Filter Data Assimilation. Mon. Wea. Rev., 144 (8), 2927-2945. (full text & pdf)
  • Žagar, N. et al. 2016: Diagnosing model performance in the tropics. ECMWF Newsletter, 147, 26-33. (full text & pdf)
  • Žagar, N. and C. Franzke, 2015: Systematic decomposition of the Madden-Julian Oscillation into balanced and inertio-gravity components. Geophys. Res. Let., 42, 6829-6835. (full text & pdf)
  • Žagar, N., R. Buizza and J. Tribbia, 2015: A three-dimensional multivariate modal analysis of atmospheric predictability with application to the ECMWF ensemble. J. Atmos. Sci., 72, 4423-4444. (abstract & pdf)
  • Blažica, V., N. Gustafsson and N. Žagar, 2015: The impact of periodization methods on the kinetic energy spectra for limited-area numerical weather prediction models. Geoscientific model development, 8, 87-97. (full text & pdf)
  • Žagar, N., A. Kasahara, K. Terasaki, J. Tribbia and H. Tanaka, 2015: Normal-mode function representation of global 3-D data sets : open-access development, 8, 1169-1195. (full text & pdf)
  • Strajnar, B., N. Žagar and L. Berre, 2015: Impact of new aircraft observations Mode-S MRAR in a mesoscale NWP model. J. Geophys. Res. – Atmosphere, 120, 3920-3938. (abstract & pdf)
  • Ceglar, A., L. Honzak, N. Žagar, G. Skok, R. Zabkar and J. Rakovec, 2014: Evaluation of precipitation in the ENSEMBLES regional climate models over the complex orography of Slovenia. Int. J. Climatology 35, 2574-2591. (abstract & pdf)
  • Podglajen, A., Hertzog, A., Plougonven, R. and N. Žagar, 2014: Assessment of the accuracy of (re)analyses in the equatorial lower stratosphere. J. Geophys. Res. - Atmosphere, 119, 11166–11188, DOI: 10.1002/2014JD021849. (abstract)
  • Cardinali, C., Žagar, N. , Radnoti, G., and Buizza, R., 2014: Representing model error in ensemble data assimilation. Nonlin. Processes Geophys., 21, 971-985, doi:10.5194/npg-21-971-2014. (abstract & pdf)
  • Žagar, N. , L. Honzak, R. Žabkar, G. Skok, J. Rakovec, and A. Ceglar, 2013: Uncertainties in a regional climate model in the mid-latitudes due to the nesting technique and the domain size. J. Geophys. Res. - Atmosphere, 118, 6189–6199, doi:10.1002/jgrd.50525
  • Žagar, N. , L. Isaksen, D. Tan and J. Tribbia, 2013: Balance properties of the short-range forecast errors in the ECMWF 4D-Var ensemble. Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 139, 1229-1238. DOI: 10.1002/qj.2033
  • Blazica, V., N. Žagar, B. Strajnar and J. Cedilnik, 2013: Rotational and divergent kinetic energy in the mesoscale model ALADIN. Tellus A 2013, 65, 18918. (pdf)
  • Žagar, N. , K. Terasaki and H. Tanaka, 2012: Impact of the vertical discretization of analysis data on the estimates of atmospheric inertio-gravity energy. Mon. Wea. Rev., 140, 2297-2307.
  • Žagar, N., 2011: Multivariate data assimilation in the tropics by using equatorial waves. Pure and Appl. Geophys., DOI: 10.1007/s00024-011-0375-2. (invited paper) (pdf)
  • Žagar, N. , G. Skok and J. Tribbia, 2011: Climatology of the ITCZ derived from ERA Interim reanalyses. J. Geophys. Res. - Atmosphere, 116, D15103, doi:10.1029/2011JD015695.
  • Žagar, N. , J. Tribbia, J. Anderson and K. Raeder, 2011: Balance of the background-error variances in the ensemble assimilation system DART/CAM. Mon. Wea. Rev., 139, 2061-2079.
  • Terasaki, K., H. Tanaka and N. Žagar , 2011: Energy Spectra of Rossby and Gravity Waves. SOLA, 7, 45-48.
  • Žagar, N. , J. Tribbia, J. Anderson and K. Raeder, 2010: Corrigendum. Mon. Wea. Rev., 138, 2476-2477.
  • Žagar, N. , J. Tribbia, J. Anderson, K. Raeder and D.T. Kleist, 2010: Diagnosis of systematic analysis increments by using normal modes. Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 136, 61-76. (pdf)
  • Žagar, N. , J. Tribbia, J. Anderson and K. Raeder, 2009: Uncertainties of estimates of inertio-gravity energy in the atmosphere. Part I: Intercomparison of four analysis systems. Mon. Wea. Rev., 137, 3837-3857.
  • Žagar, N. , J. Tribbia, J. Anderson and K. Raeder, 2009: Uncertainties of estimates of inertio-gravity energy in the atmosphere. Part II: Large-scale equatorial waves. Mon. Wea. Rev., 137, 3858-3873.
  • Beg Paklar, G., N. Žagar , M. Zagar, R. Vellore, D. Koracin, P.-M. Poulain, M. Orlic, I. Vilibic, V. Dadic, 2008: Modeling the trajectories of satellite-tracked drifters in the Adriatic Sea during a summertime bora event. JGR Oceans, C11S04, 113, doi:10.1029/2007JC004536.
  • Vilibic, I., G. Beg Paklar, N. Žagar , H. Mihanovic, N. Supic, M. Zagar, N. Domijan, M. Pasaric, 2008: Summer breakout of trapped bottom dense water from the northern Adriatic. JGR Oceans, 113, C11S02, doi:10.1029/2007JC004535.
  • Žagar, N., A. Stoffelen, G.-J. Marseille, C. Accadia and P. Schluessel, 2008: Impact assessment of simulated Doppler wind lidars with a multivariate variational assimilation in the tropics. Mon. Wea. Rev., 136, 2443-2460. (pdf)
  • Žagar, N., Andersson, E., Fisher, M. and A. Untch, 2007: Influence of the quasi-biennial oscillation on the ECMWF model short-range forecast errors in the tropical stratosphere. Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 133, 1843-1853. (pdf)
  • Žagar, N., M. Zagar, J. Cedilnik. G. Gregoric and J. Rakovec, 2006: Validation of mesoscale low-level winds obtained by dynamical downscaling of ERA40 over complex terrain. Tellus, 58A, str. 445-455. (pdf)
  • Žagar, N., Andersson, E. and M. Fisher, 2005: Balanced tropical data assimilation based on a study of equatorial waves in ECMWF short-range forecast errors. Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 131, 987-1011. (pdf)
  • Žagar, N., N. Gustnafsson and E. Kallen, 2004: Dynamical response of equatorial waves in four-dimensional variational data assimilation. Tellus, 56A, 29-46. (pdf)
  • Žagar, N., N. Gustafsson and E. Kallen, 2004: Variational data assimilation in the tropics: the impact of a background error constraint. Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 130, 103-125. (pdf)
  • Žagar, N., 2004: Assimilation of equatorial waves by line of sight wind observations. J. Atmos. Sci., 61, 1877-1893. (pdf)
  • Žagar, N.: Dynamical aspects of data assimilation in the tropics. PhD thesis. Stockholm University 2004. (pdf)