Dragan Petrovic M. Sc.
| Phone: | +49 821 598 2744 |
| Email: | dragan.petrovic@uni-auni-a.de () |
| Room: | 2023 (B) |
| Open hours: | by appointment only |
| Address: | Alter Postweg 118, 86159 Augsburg |
Research Interests
- Regional climate modeling (WRF, CORDEX)
- Climate extremes: droughts and heat waves
- Land-surface - atmosphere interactions
- Energy landscapes
Research projects
Sustainable energy landscapes: Modelling regional strategies for the expansion of renewable energies with special consideration of national and international climate policy
ClimXtreme: Module C IHAX - Impact of human water use on atmospheric extremes in regional climate simulations
Publications
Nadolski, L., Bliefernicht, J., Petrovic, D., Rauch, M., Sy, S., Guug, S., Steinbrecher, R., Neidl, F., Hingerl, L., and Kunstmann, H.: Exploring and closing the energy balance closure of eddy covariance measurements along a land use gradient in the West African Sudanian savanna, Front. Water 6:1393884, https://doi.org/10.3389/frwa.2024.1393884, 2024.
Petrovic, D., Fersch, B., and Kunstmann, H.: Heat wave characteristics: evaluation of regional climate model performances for Germany, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 24, 265–289, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-24-265-2024, 2024.
Rousi, E., Fink, A. H., Andersen, L. S., Becker, F. N., Beobide-Arsuaga, G., Breil, M., Cozzi, G., Heinke, J., Jach, L., Niermann, D., Petrovic, D., Richling, A., Riebold, J., Steidl, S., Suarez-Gutierrez, L., Tradowsky, J. S., Coumou, D., Düsterhus, A., Ellsäßer, F., Fragkoulidis, G., Gliksman, D., Handorf, D., Haustein, K., Kornhuber, K., Kunstmann, H., Pinto, J. G., Warrach-Sagi, K., and Xoplaki, E.: The extremely hot and dry 2018 summer in central and northern Europe from a multi-faceted weather and climate perspective, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 23, 1699–1718, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-23-1699-2023, 2023.
Petrovic, D., Fersch, B., and Kunstmann, H.: Droughts in Germany: performance of regional climate models in reproducing observed characteristics, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 22, 3875–3895, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-22-3875-2022, 2022.
Curriculum vitae
since 2023 Research associate at Augsburg University, Chair Regional Climate and Hydrology
2020 - 2023 Research associate at IMK-IFU, KIT Campus Alpin, Garmisch-Partenkirchen
2016 - 2019 Master studies (M. Sc) Climate and Environmental Sciences at Augsburg University
2011 - 2015 Bachelor studies (B. Sc) Geography (major) with Meteorology, Geophysics and Economics (minors) at University of Cologne
Lectures
WS 2024/25 Pro Seminar Physical Geography 1
SS 2024 Main Seminar Climate Change - Extreme Events and Projections of Climate Variables
WS 2023/24 Project Seminar Climate Change and Health