Elena Kropac
Institute of Geography
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Since 02/2021 Research associate/doctoral candidate in AG Mölg, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
04/2017 – 07/2019 MSc Climate and Environmental Sciences, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
10/2013 – 09/2016 BSc Physische Geographie, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
Kropač, E., Mölg, T., and Cullen, N.J. (2025): From sea to summit: Investigating the explicit role of SST increase for regional and high-altitude climates in New Zealand. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 130(15): e2025JD043572. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025JD043572
Kropač, E., Mölg, T., and Cullen, N.J. (2024): A new, high‐resolution atmospheric dataset for southern New Zealand, 2005–2020. Geoscience Data Journal, 4(11): 873–895. https://doi.org/10.1002/gdj3.263
Kropač, E., Mölg, T., Cullen, N.J., Collier, E., Pickler, C., and Turton, J.V. (2021): A detailed, multi-scale assessment of an atmospheric river event and its impact on extreme glacier melt in the Southern Alps of New Zealand. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 126(9): e2020JD034217. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JD034217
Mölg, T., Hardy, D.R., Collier, E., Kropač, E., Schmid, C., Cullen, N.J., Kaser, G., Prinz, R., and Winkler, M. (2020): Mesoscale atmospheric circulation controls of local meteorological elevation gradients on Kersten Glacier near Kilimanjaro summit. Earth System Dynamics, 11(3): 653–672. https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-11-653-2020
Project (DFG-funded):
NZ-PROXY: Das Potenzial von corallinen Algen als Indikator des Klimas in der Südlichen Hemisphäre und für die Evaluierung von globalen Klimamodellen: eine Fallstudie zu Neuseeland -> More information
Research focus:
- Regional atmospheric modelling using WRF (Weather Research and Forecasting model)
- Mesoscale atmospheric processes in mountainous regions
- High-elevation climate and atmosphere–glacier interactions
- New Zealand climate
- Climate proxies