Krešo Pandžić is an assistant professor at the Department of Geophysics, Meteorological and Hydrological Service of Croatia. He graduated (1979) and earned his doctorate (1989) from the Faculty of Science and Mathematics in Zagreb. Since 1979, he has been working at the State Hydrometeorological Institute, where he deals with regional climatology and long-term forecasting, especially the application of statistical methods in researching the general circulation of the atmosphere and the precipitation regime of our regions. As a senior assistant professor (since 1992), he taught at the Institute of Geophysics of the Faculty of Science and Mathematics in Zagreb. He is the author of the university textbook Analysis of Meteorological Fields and Systems (2002). For his work on the precipitation regime in the Pannonian and Adriatic regions, he received an award from the World Meteorological Organization in 1989.