Introduction

Abstract

Meteorology belongs among the oldest scientific disciplines. It has a long-lasting history that reaches back to the distant past of the human civilization. From the beginnings of life, people have been trying to adapt to the atmospheric behaviour, to create a more comfortable life, and to control those conditions that endanger or make life uncomfortable. There is no doubt that today meteorological science has a tremendous importance around the world. Every day, people are faced with various manifestations of weather. Depending on weather conditions, they adapt their planned activities. Weather manifestation is closely related to the status of the atmosphere, which has a wave nature. The scientific discipline that examines atmospheric phenomena, atmospheric structure, composition, atmospheric features and phenomena, and the important processes that occur in a thin surrounding layer of the atmosphere-troposphere, water, and air including the future state of the atmosphere is referred to us as “meteorology”. Basically, meteorology examines the physical processes that occur in the atmosphere. Hence, this scientific discipline is often referred to as the “Physics of the Atmosphere” (see Spiridonov 2010; Spiridonov and Ćurić 2011; Andrews 2010; Salby 1996). Meteorology as an interdisciplinary science cuts across a various number of natural disciplines. Thus, there is a great interest in meteorology, especially in the last two to three decades, when the global community is facing with global warming and climate change with extreme weather events. During this period many comprehensive textbooks, scientific publications, and studies were dedicated to this contemporary and interdisciplinary science (e.g. Andrews 2010; Ackerman and Knox 2007; Ćurić 2006; Lutgens and Tarbuck 2009; Salby 1996; Anthes 1996).