Romana Beranová

Function:	Deputy Head of the Dpt.
Position:	Research Scientist
Email:
Phone:	+420 272 016 043
Room:	113

Education:

• Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague, specialization: meteorology and climatology,  finished in 2002 with Mgr., diploma thesis: „Heat island of Prague: the intensity and long-term changes under different synoptic condition”
• PhD thesis: „Long term variability of the relationships between atmospheric circulation and surface climate elements“, defended at the Department of Meteorology and Environment Protection, part of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of Charles University (KMOP MFF UK) in Prague in 2008

Employment and academic experience:

• Since 2004 - Institute of Atmospheric Physics, the Czech Academy of Science, Prague, Czech Republic
• 2009 – 2010 and 2012 – 13 maternity leave – 2 children

Professional interests:

Climate variability and change, validation of climate models,  statistical methods, analysis of time series and climate extremes, atmospheric circulation and its links to surface climate

Selected publications:

• Beranová, Romana; Kyselý, Jan; Hanel, M., 2018: Characteristics of sub-daily precipitation extremes in observed data and regional climate model simulations, Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 132, 1-2, pp. 515-527
• Beranová, Romana; Kyselý, Jan, 2018: Trends of precipitation characteristics in the Czech Republic over 1961–2012, their spatial patterns and links to temperature and the North Atlantic Oscillation, International Journal of Climatology, 38, Suppl. 1, pp. E596-E606
• Rulfová, Zuzana; Beranová, Romana; Kyselý, Jan, 2017: Climate change scenarios of convective and large-scale precipitation in the Czech Republic based on EURO-CORDEX data, International Journal of Climatology, 37, 5, pp. 2451–2465
• Beranová, Romana ; Kyselý, Jan, 2016: Links between circulation indices and precipitation in the Mediterranean in an ensemble of regional climate models, Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 123, 3 , pp. 693-701
• Gaál, Ladislav ; Beranová, Romana ; Hlavčová, K. ; Kyselý, Jan, 2014: Climate change scenarios of precipitation extremes in the Carpathian region based on an ensemble of regional climate models, Advances in Meteorology, 2014, pp. -
• Beranová, Romana ; Kyselý, Jan, 2013: Relationships between the North Atlantic Oscillation index and temperatures in Europe in global climate models, Studia geophysica et geodaetica, 57, 1, pp. 138-153
• Kyselý, Jan ; Beguería, S. ; Beranová, Romana ; Gaál, Ladislav ; López-Moreno, J. I, 2012: Different patterns of climate change scenarios for short-term and multi-day precipitation extremes in the Mediterranean, Global and Planetary Change, 98-99, - , pp. 63-72
• Kyselý, Jan ; Gaál, Ladislav ; Beranová, Romana ; Plavcová, Eva, 2011: Climate change scenarios of precipitation extremes in Central Europe from ENSEMBLES regional climate models, Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 104, 3-4, pp. 529-542
• Kyselý, Jan ; Gaál, Ladislav ; Beranová, Romana, 2011: Projected changes in flood-generating precipitation extremes over the Czech Republic in high-resolution regional climate models, Journal of Hydrology and Hydromechanics, 59, 4, pp. 217-227
• Kyselý, Jan ; Picek, J. ; Beranová, Romana, 2010: Estimating extremes in climate change simulations using the peaks-over-threshold method with a non-stationary threshold, Global and Planetary Change, 72, 1-2, pp. 55-68
• Kyselý, Jan ; Beranová, Romana, 2009: Climate-change effects on extreme precipitation in central Europe: uncertainties of scenarios based on regional climate models, Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 95, 3-4, pp. 361-374
• Beranová, Romana ; Huth, Radan, 2008: Time variations of the effects of circulation variability modes on European temperature and precipitation in winter, International Journal of Climatology, 28, 2, pp. 139-158
• Kyselý, Jan ; Beranová, Romana ; Picek, J. ; Štěpánek, P., 2008: Simulation of summer temperature extremes over the Czech Republic in regional climate models, Meteorologische Zeitschrift, 17, 5, pp. 645-661
• Beranová, Romana ; Huth, Radan, 2007: Time variations of the relationships between the North Atlantic Oscillation and European winter temperature and precipitation, Studia geophysica et geodaetica, 51, 4, pp. 575-590
• Beranová, Romana ; Huth, Radan, 2005: Long-term changes in the heat island of Prague under different synoptic conditions, Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 82, 1-2, pp. 113-118