%0 Journal Article %T Climatic features of Palagru a Island, Croatia %A £¿ivko Tro£¿i£¿ %A Dra£¿en Ja£¿i£¿ %A Vinko Marinkovi£¿ %J Geoadria %D 2003 %I University of Zadar %X The paper presents a brief review of contemporary research on climatic features of Palagru a Island, both in the pre-instrumental and instrumental period. The analysis was made upon climatic data provided by the meteorological station of Palagru a. For comparison purposes, data from the station in Split-Marjan was used, covering the standard climate period 1961-1990. The results show, among other things, that there is a decreasing trend of annual mean maximum air temperatures for 0.37 ¡ãC/30 years, average air temperature for 0.05 ¡ãC/30 years, and the mean minimum air temperature for 0.04 ¡ãC/30 years. There is a decreasing trend of annual mean of precipitation amount for 62 mm/30 years. Spearman rank statistic shows that neither of the trends noted above is statistically significant at 0.05 level (two-tailed t-test) %K climate %K Adriatic Sea %K Palagru a Island %K air temperature %K precipitation %U http://hrcak.srce.hr/geoadria