Hydrometeorological Institute of Montenegro (HI-M) was established on December 20^th, 1947 as governmental institution. It is responsible for monitoring and superstructuring in domains of meteorology, hydrology and water and air quality.

HI-M main activities refer to:

• observations and measurements of meteorological, hydrological, ecological and agrometeorological parameters
• analyzing, processing and archiving of observed and measured parameters
• elaboration of studies, information, analysis and conditions of climate, air, surface and underground water, coastal sea
• weather forecasts, provided for:
  • the coastal area,
  • region of Podgorica - Skadar basin and valley of rivers Zeta and Moraca,
  • region of Niksic valley
  • region of Northern part of Montenegro
• servicing and setting up of meteorological, hydrological, water and air quality stations
• providing data, information and reports for the sea, air and land traffic
• providing data, information and reports for Electrical, Water and Agricultural Utility as well as Civil Engineering
• providing data, information and reports for tourism, army, property insurance etc.

Stations network is consisted of:

• 120 meteorological stations
• 40 hydrological stations
• 36 water quality stations
• 17 air quality stations

Products and services, consulting, elaboration of studies, project management as well as involvement in and supervising of the development of projects, make HI-M an inevitable factor in the development of Montenegro.

Only reliable and verified data can serve as a good base for implementation of numerous development projects and rational use of natural resources. Being aware of it, HI-M tries to spread our approach and position among Montenegrin society in general.

Main role in ADRICOSM-STAR

1. Under the work-package WP1: “Assessment of environmental quality in the area of interest”, HI-M is responsible for the task T1.1: “Final definition of areas of investigation”, and subtask S1.2.1: “Physical-geographical information “. Its main activity in T1.1 is to collect relevant information for the area and sub-areas of investigation in order to define the environmental issues and threats, the observational program and the numerical model implementation. Its main activity in S1.2.1 is to collect historical information from a physical and geographical point of view for the areas of investigation and data collection for modeling activities that are requested for the implementation of Ulcinj town sewer system, Bojana and Bokakotorska Bay modeling. Under the subtask S1.2.2: “Hydrometeorological Information”, HI-M provides information about the longest data set for the areas of interest.

2. Under the work-package WP2: “Data collection program for model calibration/validation and monitoring upgrades, HI-M is responsible for the task T2.1: “New instruments procurement”. The aim is to acquire new instruments for hydro-meteorological, river flow, water quality and oceanographic monitoring in order to collect the relevant data and prepare for the long term monitoring of the hydrological cycle, river runoff and the coastal areas of Montenegro. In the task T2.4: “Meteo-hydrological survey”, HI-M is responsible for collection of new and relevant data for the calibration of hydrological and meteorological models.

3. HI-M is responsible for work-package WP3: “Design and implementation of in situ and satellite monitoring system” which should demonstrate the work of the permanent observing network system in combination with satellite data sets. Permanent observing network system is composed of the new automatic stations acquired for hydrometeorology, river water flows and quality and the oceanographic monitoring network of the Montenegrin coastal area. In particular, focusing on the task T3.1: “Meteorological/hydrological monitoring” under the WP3, HI-M will upgrade the presently available weather stations with real time data transmission and add the new stations acquired in WP2. Data quality and quantity will be critically assessed and the stations will be augmented with real time data transmission capabilities.

The HI-M participants are:
Radivoje Vučković
Mirjana Ivanov
Radomir Kandić
Pavle Đurašković
Darko Novaković
Angel Marčev
Aleksandar Berber