Croatian scientific society for the history of health culture
Abstract
When reporting on extreme weather conditions in the city of Rijeka (former Fiume), it is often specified „ ... since the beginning of measurements in 1948“. In reality the modern meteorological measurements in Fiume had started already in 1868, when the Austrian Imperial Academy of Science established the meteorological station. The station was operating at the Naval Academy, under the supervision of prof. dr. Emil Stahlberger, the first university professor of physics in Fiume (Rijeka). The following year the station was equipped with mareograph (marigraph/tide gauge). Based on three years measurements, prof. Stahlberger published the first book on tides in the Rijeka bay (Ueber die Ebbe und Flut in der Rhede
von Fiume). After his sudden death, Prof. Peter Salcher, his succesor at the Physics chair at the Naval academy, took charge of the Meteorological station. In 1884. He published
the book entitled Climate in Rijeka and Opatija (Das Klima von Fiume und Abbazia). The meteorological data in the book are presented in the very same way as it is done today, and therefore these data can be used for comparative purposes regarding climate variations/ changes.U medijima se često može čuti o ekstremnim vremenskim uvjetima u Rijeci od početka mjerenja 1948. godine. No meteorološka mjerenja u Rijeci imaju puno dužu povijest, barem do 1868. godine kada je Bečka akademija znanosti u ovom gradu osnovala meteorološku stanicu. Meteorološka je stanica djelovala u sklopu Mornaričke akademije, a njezin prvi voditelj bio je prof. Emil Stahlberger, ujedno prvi akademski profesor fizike u Rijeci. U sklopu meteorološke stanice instaliran je 1869. i mareograf te je prof. Stahlberger 1874., na osnovi trogodišnjih rezultata mjerenja, objavio knjigu o plimi i oseki u Riječkom zaljevu (Ueber die Ebbe und Flut in der Rhede von Fiume). Nakon njegove smrti, voditelj meteorološke stanice postao je već dobro znani prof. Peter Salcher koji 1884. objavljuje knjigu o klimi u Rijeci i Opatiji (Das
Klima von Fiume und Abbazia). U toj je knjizi, i na danas važeći način, obradio i interpretirao meteorološke podatke koji mogu poslužiti za usporedbu današnjih vrijednosti u svrhu
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