This article examines soil erosion and erosion processes in badlands and presents the necessity a... more This article examines soil erosion and erosion processes in badlands and presents the necessity and importance of their research. We present our findings regarding measurements of erosion processes that we carried out in a flysch region in the Dragonja River Basin in southwest Slovenia and in a dolomite region in central Slovenia in the Polhov Gradec Hills. Soil erosion was measured for various land-use types: an olive grove, a meadow, and a forest. Special emphasis was placed on interrill erosion, which is almost imperceptible without measurement. The measurement results served as a foundation for the importance of studying erosion processes as well as various applied aspects such as obtaining data for verification of erosion models, estimating damage caused by erosion, raising risk awareness due to erosion hazard, and improving coastal management.U radu se istražuju erozija tla i erozijski procesi u ogolinama te se prezentira potreba i važnost takvih istraživanja. Predstavljena su...
This article deals with landslide geomorphology, which should be placed alongside fluvial, tecton... more This article deals with landslide geomorphology, which should be placed alongside fluvial, tectonic, karst, coast, or slope geomorphology. Slovenia is used as an example to present landslide susceptibility mapping and the relative landslide rate, which was used to quantify the relative role of landslides in recent relief development in comparison to other fluvio-denudational or erosion processes. Landslides are a geographical constant in certain areas, and in the past some researchers have also used expressions such as landslideprone region for certain regions of Slovenia. The last section deals with geographers’ role in landslide hazard research, which consists of several activities, although map-making remains the fundamental skill applied by geomorphologists. Methods of landslide hazard assessment are also discussed.Rad se bavi geomorfologijom klizišta, koja bi se trebala svrstati uz fluvijalnu, kršku, obalnu, padinsku ili strukturnu geomorfologiju. Slovenija je uzeta kao primjer...
The three-year basic research project »Make this country German ... Italian ... Hungarian ... Cro... more The three-year basic research project »Make this country German ... Italian ... Hungarian ... Croatian! The role of occupation borders in national politics and the life of the Slovenian population« began on May 1, 2017, and will end on April 30, 2020. It is intended to examine the impact of the borders, with which four occupiers quartered Slovenia during the Second World War, planning to wipe out its population. The project was special for its multidisciplinary approach, as there was a sizable group of geographers in the team. This time, an important element was the analysis of cartographic material, and above all, the fieldwork, which was in part related to cartographic resources.
This article examines different annual trends in the climate and hydrological changes in the Slov... more This article examines different annual trends in the climate and hydrological changes in the Slovenian part of the Drava Basin (Sln. Podravje) between 1961 and 2018. Climate change is primarily reflected in the rising average annual temperatures and a significantly shorter duration of snow cover. In terms of hydrological changes, a decrease in the average annual minimum and mean annual discharge can be observed, whereas the average maximum and absolute discharge is increasing in places. In addition to the water volume, changes can also be observed in the rivers’ discharge regimes, which may indicate a smaller probability of spring floods, but conversely a higher probability of fall floods.V prispevku obravnavamo različne letne trende podnebnih in hidroloških spremenljivk na območju slovenskega dela porečja Drave med letoma 1961 in 2018. Prve se odražajo predvsem v rasti povprečne letne temperature in močno skrajšanem trajanju snežne odeje. Pri drugih pa je opazno padanje povprečnih ...
Rainfall is the key factor to understand soil erosion processes, mechanisms, and rates. Most rese... more Rainfall is the key factor to understand soil erosion processes, mechanisms, and rates. Most research was conducted to determine rainfall characteristics and their relationship with soil erosion (erosivity) but there is little information about how atmospheric patterns control soil losses, and this is important to enable sustainable environmental planning and risk prevention. We investigated the temporal and spatial variability of the relationships of rainfall, runoff, and sediment yield with atmospheric patterns (weather types, WTs) in the western Mediterranean basin. For this purpose, we analyzed a large database of rainfall events collected between 1985 and 2015 in 46 experimental plots and catchments with the aim to: (i) evaluate seasonal differences in the contribution of rainfall, runoff, and sediment yield produced by the WTs; and (ii) to analyze the seasonal efficiency of the different WTs (relation frequency and magnitude) related to rainfall, runoff, and sediment yield. Th...
This article examines soil erosion and erosion processes in badlands and presents the necessity a... more This article examines soil erosion and erosion processes in badlands and presents the necessity and importance of their research. We present our findings regarding measurements of erosion processes that we carried out in a flysch region in the Dragonja River Basin in southwest Slovenia and in a dolomite region in central Slovenia in the Polhov Gradec Hills. Soil erosion was measured for various land-use types: an olive grove, a meadow, and a forest. Special emphasis was placed on interrill erosion, which is almost imperceptible without measurement. The measurement results served as a foundation for the importance of studying erosion processes as well as various applied aspects such as obtaining data for verification of erosion models, estimating damage caused by erosion, raising risk awareness due to erosion hazard, and improving coastal management.U radu se istražuju erozija tla i erozijski procesi u ogolinama te se prezentira potreba i važnost takvih istraživanja. Predstavljena su...
This article deals with landslide geomorphology, which should be placed alongside fluvial, tecton... more This article deals with landslide geomorphology, which should be placed alongside fluvial, tectonic, karst, coast, or slope geomorphology. Slovenia is used as an example to present landslide susceptibility mapping and the relative landslide rate, which was used to quantify the relative role of landslides in recent relief development in comparison to other fluvio-denudational or erosion processes. Landslides are a geographical constant in certain areas, and in the past some researchers have also used expressions such as landslideprone region for certain regions of Slovenia. The last section deals with geographers’ role in landslide hazard research, which consists of several activities, although map-making remains the fundamental skill applied by geomorphologists. Methods of landslide hazard assessment are also discussed.Rad se bavi geomorfologijom klizišta, koja bi se trebala svrstati uz fluvijalnu, kršku, obalnu, padinsku ili strukturnu geomorfologiju. Slovenija je uzeta kao primjer...
The three-year basic research project »Make this country German ... Italian ... Hungarian ... Cro... more The three-year basic research project »Make this country German ... Italian ... Hungarian ... Croatian! The role of occupation borders in national politics and the life of the Slovenian population« began on May 1, 2017, and will end on April 30, 2020. It is intended to examine the impact of the borders, with which four occupiers quartered Slovenia during the Second World War, planning to wipe out its population. The project was special for its multidisciplinary approach, as there was a sizable group of geographers in the team. This time, an important element was the analysis of cartographic material, and above all, the fieldwork, which was in part related to cartographic resources.
This article examines different annual trends in the climate and hydrological changes in the Slov... more This article examines different annual trends in the climate and hydrological changes in the Slovenian part of the Drava Basin (Sln. Podravje) between 1961 and 2018. Climate change is primarily reflected in the rising average annual temperatures and a significantly shorter duration of snow cover. In terms of hydrological changes, a decrease in the average annual minimum and mean annual discharge can be observed, whereas the average maximum and absolute discharge is increasing in places. In addition to the water volume, changes can also be observed in the rivers’ discharge regimes, which may indicate a smaller probability of spring floods, but conversely a higher probability of fall floods.V prispevku obravnavamo različne letne trende podnebnih in hidroloških spremenljivk na območju slovenskega dela porečja Drave med letoma 1961 in 2018. Prve se odražajo predvsem v rasti povprečne letne temperature in močno skrajšanem trajanju snežne odeje. Pri drugih pa je opazno padanje povprečnih ...
Rainfall is the key factor to understand soil erosion processes, mechanisms, and rates. Most rese... more Rainfall is the key factor to understand soil erosion processes, mechanisms, and rates. Most research was conducted to determine rainfall characteristics and their relationship with soil erosion (erosivity) but there is little information about how atmospheric patterns control soil losses, and this is important to enable sustainable environmental planning and risk prevention. We investigated the temporal and spatial variability of the relationships of rainfall, runoff, and sediment yield with atmospheric patterns (weather types, WTs) in the western Mediterranean basin. For this purpose, we analyzed a large database of rainfall events collected between 1985 and 2015 in 46 experimental plots and catchments with the aim to: (i) evaluate seasonal differences in the contribution of rainfall, runoff, and sediment yield produced by the WTs; and (ii) to analyze the seasonal efficiency of the different WTs (relation frequency and magnitude) related to rainfall, runoff, and sediment yield. Th...
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