RNDr. Miloslav Müller, Ph.D.
Born: 3 April 1976 in Prague, Czech Republic

Status: married, 2 childern

Education:

Master degree at the Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, branch geography and history; diploma thesis "Selected historical cases of severe convective storms" defended in 2002.

Ph.D. degree at Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, branch Physical Geography; dissertation "Hydrometeorological conditions of the origin of significant rain floods in the Czech territory" defended in 2007. shrnutí / summary

Professional experience:

Institute of Atmospheric Physics AS CR, Department of Meteorology (since 2002)

Technical University Freiberg (Germany), Interdisciplinary Environmental Research Centre - six months scholarship by German Federal Foundation for Environment (2006)

Charles University in Prague, Department of Physical Geography and Geoecology (since 2007)

Professional interests:
Hydrometeorology, severe weather, historical weather extremes

Publications:

• Müller, M., Kašpar, M., 2011: Association between anomalies of moisture flux and extreme runoff events in the south-eastern Alps. Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci. 11, 915-920.
• Kašpar, M., Müller, M.: Variants of synoptic patterns inducing heavy rains in the Czech Republic. Phys. Chem. Earth, accepted, doi:10.1016/j.pce.2009.11.004.
• Müller, M., Kašpar, M.: Quantitative aspect in circulation type classifications - an example based on evaluation of moisture flux anomalies. Phys. Chem. Earth, accepted, doi: 10.1016/j.pce.2009.09.004.
• Kašpar, M., Müller, M., 2009: Cyclogenesis in the Mediterranean Basin - a diagnosis using synoptic-scale anomalies. Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci. 9, 957-965.
• Müller, M., Kašpar, M., Matschullat, J., 2009: Heavy rains and extreme rainfall-runoff events in Central Europe from 1951 to 2002. Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci. 9, 441-450.
• Kašpar, M., Müller, M., Kakos, V., Řezáčová, D., Sokol, Z., 2008: Severe Storm in Bavaria, the Czech Republic and Poland on 12-13 July 1984 - a statistic- and model-based analysis. Atmospheric Research, 93, 99-110. (doi:10.1016/j.atmosres.2008.10.004).
• Müller, M., Kašpar, M., Řezáčová, D. and Sokol, Z., 2009: Extremeness of meteorological variables as an indicator of extreme precipitation events. Atmos. Research 92, 308-317.
• Kašpar, M., Müller, M., 2008: Selection of historic heavy large-scale rainfall events in the Czech Republic. Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 8, 1359-1367.
• Kašpar, M., Müller, M., 2007: Aplikace modelu pro objektivní analýzu gust front. Meteorologické zprávy, 60, 77-84.
• Kašpar, M., Müller, M., 2007: Diagnostic analyses of convective events - the effect of propagating gust fronts. Atmospheric Research, 83, 140-151.
• Müller, M., Kašpar, M., Řezáčová, D., Sokol, Z., 2006: Extremita meteorologických prvků před velkoprostorovými dešťovými povodněmi v ČR - index LSF. Meteorologické zprávy, 59, 65-75.
• Brázdil, R., Dobrovolný, P., Elleder, L., Kakos, V., Kotyza, O., Květoň, V., Macková, J., Müller, M., Štekl, J., Tolasz, R., Valášek, H., 2005: Historické a současné povodně v České republice. Masarykova univerzita a ČHMÚ, Brno a Praha, 370 s.
• Řezáčová, D., Kašpar, M., Müller, M., Sokol, Z., Kakos, V., Hanslian, D., Pešice, P., 2005: Comparison of flood precipitation in August 2002 with historical extreme precipitation events from the Czech territory. Atmospheric Research, 77, 354-366.
• Müller, M., Kakos, V., 2004: Extrémní konvekční bouře v Čechách 25. - 26. května 1872. Meteorologické zprávy, 57, 69-77.
• Müller, M., 2003: Evolution of the Vltava river basin saturation before the floods in 2002, 1890 and 1897. Meteorologický časopis, 6, 3-10.
• Müller, M., Kakos, V., 2003: Hydrometeorologické srovnání povodní v srpnu 2002 s vybranými historickými případy dešťových povodní na Vltavě v Praze. Meteorologické zprávy, 56, 129-136.

Research projects participation:

• Grant Agency of Academy of Sciences of the CR KJB300420802 (2008 - 2010): A comparative study of significant rain floods in the Czech Republic considering their synoptic-dynamic and hydrometeorological causes.
• Grant Agency of Academy of Sciences of the CR KJB300420701 (2007 - 2009): Extremeness of Meteorological Quantities as a Predictor of Heavy Rainfall and Rain Floods (main investigator).
• Grant Agency of the CR 205/04/0114 (2004 - 2006): Identification and prediction of organised and supercell convective systems in conditions of the Czech Republic.
• Grant Agency of Academy of Sciences of the CR B3042404 (2004 - 2006): Analysis of gust front behaviour using objective techniques applied to outputs of a NWP model with high resolution.
• Ministry of Environment of the CR VaV650/4/03 (2003 - 2005): An investigation of the links between the meteorological causes of the heavy precipitation and catchments hydrological response. Topic 1: An investigation of meteorological causes for the evolution of heavy precipitation, development of techniques to improve forecast of area precipitation.
• Grant Agency of the CR 205/03/Z043 (2003 - 2004): Organised convective systems causing devastating flash rainfalls.
• Ministry of Environment of the CR (2002 - 2003): Evaluation of the catastrophic flood in August 2002.

Contact: email: muller@ufa.cas.cz