astronomy

Mira Zore-Armanda

Mira Zore-Armanda is a astronomy topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Mira Zore-Armanda rather than just read about it. In short: Mira Zore-Armanda (Zagreb, 6 January 1930–Opatija, 8 April 2012) was a Croatian oceanographer. She was a senior scientist at the Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries in Split, where her research focused on the Adriatic Sea.

Key takeaways

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Reference excerpt

Mira Zore-Armanda (Zagreb, 6 January 1930–Opatija, 8 April 2012) was a Croatian oceanographer. She was a senior scientist at the Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries in Split, where her research focused on the Adriatic Sea. She published about 150 research papers before her retirement in 1989.

Early life Mira Zore was born in Zagreb, the daughter of Miro Zore and Marija Nabergoj. She studied geophysics as an undergraduate at the University of Zagreb under Josip Goldberg, graduating in 1952 with a thesis titled "Oscillation of bays with an application to the Kaštela Bay". She defended her doctoral dissertation on currents in the Adriatic Sea at the University of Paris in 1963. Henri Lacombe was her doctoral advisor.

Career Zore started working at the Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries in Split in 1952 and stayed there for her entire career. Early in her career, she encountered some difficulty in gaining passage on research vessels (to do field work and data gathering) because she was female. Most of her research focused on circulation in the Adriatic Sea, and later on the Istrian coastal sea. She was intrigued by long-term climatic variability and its possible causes. She conducted research on interannual salinity variations in the Adriatic to the extent of the Arctic area covered by ice and the meridional pressure gradient in the Mediterranean. She often collaborated with marine biologists in studying fish production, and with chemists on questions of salinity. She published about 150 research papers before she retired in 1989. Zore-Armanda taught at the University of Zagreb. From 1976 to 1978, she was director of the Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries. She was vice president of the Physical Oceanography Committee of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics. She co-authored an introductory text on oceanography and marine meteorology, and was editor-in-chief of the academic journal Acta Adriatica.

Personal life Mira Zore married Igor Armanda, a chemist, in 1959. In widowhood, she moved to Opatija to live with her sister and her family. She died in 2012, aged 82 years.

References

Sources Orlić, Mirko (2012). "In memoriam: Dr. Mira Zore-Armanda" (PDF). Geofizika. 29 (2). Zagreb: Andrija Mohorovicic Geophysical Institute: 193–205. Retrieved 27 May 2018.

External links Mira Zore-Armanda, Water Masses of the Adriatic Sea (a report prepared for the Office of Naval Intelligence).

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Mira Zore-Armanda

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Mira Zore-Armanda claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In astronomy, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Mira Zore-Armanda before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Mira Zore-Armanda ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Mira Zore-Armanda

In research: Mira Zore-Armanda appears in astronomy research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Mira Zore-Armanda in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Mira Zore-Armanda is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1930 births, 2012 deaths, 20th-century Croatian scientists, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Mira Zore-Armanda outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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Frequently asked questions

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Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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