Scientific career
Seit 09/2019
Scientific staff at the Chair of Regional Climate Change and Health at the Faculty of Medicine and the chair of Physical Geography with focus on Climate Research at the Faculty of Applied Computer Science, University of Augsburg (DFG project: Urban climate change: scenarios of system events)
10/2018-08/2019
Scientific staff at the Chair for Regional Climate and Hydrology and the chair of Physical Geography with focus on Climate Research at the Faculty of Applied Computer Science, University of Augsburg (DFG project: Urban climate change: scenarios of system events)
10/2017-09/2018
Scientific staff at the Chair of Physical Geography and Quantitative Methods at the Faculty of Applied Computer Science, University of Augsburg (DFG project: Urban climate change: scenarios of system events)
10/2016-09/2017
Research assistant at the Chair of Physical Geography and Quantitative Methods at the Faculty of Applied Computer Science, University of Augsburg (DFG project: SLAC-SD. Relevance of sea and land surface-atmosphere-climate interactions within the framework of statistical downscaling for Europe and the Mediterranean area)
2017
PhD ath the chair of Physical Geography and Quantitative Methods at the Faculty of Applied Computer Science, University of Augsburg. Topic: „Assessment of future seasonal precipitation extremes within the Mediterranean area under consideration of varying predictor-predictand relationships“
01/2016-09/2016
Research assistant at the chair of Physical Geography and Quantitative Methods at the Faculty of Applied Computer Science, University of Augsburg
01/2012-12/2015
Research assistant at the Chair of Physical Geography and Quantitative Methods at the Faculty of Applied Computer Science, University of Augsburg (DFG project: Development of novel statistical assessments of climate change within the Mediterranean area under consideration of non-stationarites within the predictor-predictand relationships)
12/2010-12/2011
Scientific staff at the chair of Physical Geography, Philosophical Faculty, at the Julius-Maximilians-University, Würzburg
10/2001-05/2009
Studies of Geography (Diploma) at the Julius-Maximilians University, Würzburg
Research
- Statistical Downscaling
- Climate extremes
- Statistical and numerical modeling of urban climate
Aktuelles Forschungsprojekt:
DFG-Projekt Urbaner Klimawandel: Szenarien von Systemereignissen
Lectures
Publications
Vorträge
- Merkenschlager, C., Hertig, E. & Jacobeit, J. (2018): Assessments of daily heavy rainfall events considering non-stationarities within the relationships of large-scale circulation and precipitation in the Mediterranean area for the 21st century. MedCLIVAR, Belgrade, Serbia, September 18-21.
- Merkenschlager, C., Hertig, E. & Jacobeit, J. (2016): Berücksichtigung variierender Prädiktor-Prädiktand-Beziehungen bei der Abschätzung zukünftiger Starkniederschlagsereignisse im Mittelmeerraum. AK Klima, Bad Dürkheim, November 4-6.
- Merkenschlager, C., Hertig, E. & Jacobeit, J. (2015): Non-stationarities of Mediterranean heavy precipitation events in the second half of the 20th century related to the large-scale atmospheric circulation. EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, April 12-17.
- Merkenschlager, C., Hertig E. & Jacobeit, J. (2014): Analyse von Instationaritäten winterlicher Starkniederschlagsereignisse im Mittelmeerraum. AK Klima, Basel, Schweiz, November 7-9.