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2026

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Environmental Sciences

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73
Citations
18055
World Ranking
1428
National Ranking
2

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72
Citations
17229
World Ranking
6357
National Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Czechia Leader Award
  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Czechia Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Czechia Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Czechia Leader Award

Overview

Miroslav Trnka is affiliated with the Czech Academy of Sciences in the Czech Republic and conducts research primarily within the environmental and Earth sciences domains. Their work spans several interconnected fields including Environmental Science, Earth and Planetary Sciences, and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a focus on understanding climate variability, drought impacts, and plant water relations.

The scientist's research interests more specifically cover subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Plant Science, and Ecology. Within these areas, key topics addressed in their work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Tree-ring Climate Responses, Climate Variability and Models, Hydrology and Drought Analysis, Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, and Remote Sensing in Agriculture.

Among recent publications by Miroslav Trnka are:

  • "Recent European drought extremes beyond Common Era background variability," 2021, Nature Geoscience
  • "Europe under multi-year droughts: how severe was the 2014-2018 drought period?", 2021, Environmental Research Letters
  • "Czech Drought Monitor System for monitoring and forecasting agricultural drought and drought impacts," 2020, International Journal of Climatology
  • "Earth Observation for agricultural drought monitoring in the Pannonian Basin (southeastern Europe): current state and future directions," 2020, Regional Environmental Change
  • "Reflections of global warming in trends of temperature characteristics in the Czech Republic, 1961-2019," 2020, International Journal of Climatology

Frequent co-authors with whom Miroslav Trnka collaborates include:

  • Jan Bálek
  • Milan Fischer
  • Zdeňěk Žalud
  • Petr Štěpánek
  • Ulf Büntgen

The scientist has published repeatedly in a number of academic journals with significant numbers of papers appearing in:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Agricultural Water Management
  • Atmosphere
  • International Journal of Climatology
  • Environmental Research Letters

Best Publications

  • Impacts and adaptation of European crop production systems to climate change

    J.E. Olesen;M. Trnka;K.C. Kersebaum;A.O. Skjelvåg

  • Adverse weather conditions for European wheat production will become more frequent with climate change

    Miroslav Trnka;Miroslav Trnka;Reimund P. Rötter;Margarita Ruiz-Ramos;Kurt Christian Kersebaum

  • Simulation of winter wheat yield and its variability in different climates of Europe: A comparison of eight crop growth models

    Taru Palosuo;Kurt Christian Kersebaum;Carlos Angulo;Petr Hlavinka

  • Altas podnebí Česka

    Radim Tolasz;Rudolf Brázdil;Otto Bulíř;Petr Dobrovolný

  • Agroclimatic conditions in Europe under climate change

    M. Trnka;Jørgen Eivind Olesen;K. C. Kersebaum;A. O. Skjelvåg

  • Recent European drought extremes beyond Common Era background variability

    Ulf Büntgen;Otmar Urban;Paul J. Krusic;Paul J. Krusic;Michal Rybníček;Michal Rybníček

  • Simulation of spring barley yield in different climatic zones of Northern and Central Europe: A comparison of nine crop models

    Reimund P. Rötter;Taru Palosuo;Kurt Christian Kersebaum;Carlos Angulo

  • Comparison of CERES, WOFOST and SWAP models in simulating soil water content during growing season under different soil conditions

    J. Eitzinger;M. Trnka;J. Hösch;Z. Žalud

  • Crop modelling for integrated assessment of risk to food production from climate change

    F. Ewert;R.P. Rötter;M. Bindi;H. Webber

  • Application of relative drought indices in assessing climate-change impacts on drought conditions in Czechia

    M. Dubrovsky;Mark D. Svoboda;M. Trnka;Michael J. Hayes

  • Effect of drought on yield variability of key crops in Czech Republic

    Petr Hlavinka;Miroslav Trnka;Daniela Semerádová;Martin Dubrovský;Martin Dubrovský

  • What can scenario modelling tell us about future European scale agricultural land use, and what not?

    Eric Audsley;Kerry R. Pearn;C. Simota;G. Cojocaru

  • Global solar radiation in Central European lowlands estimated by various empirical formulae

    Miroslav Trnka;Zdeněk Žalud;Josef Eitzinger;Martin Dubrovský

  • Decline in climate resilience of European wheat.

    Helena Kahiluoto;Janne Kaseva;Jan Balek;Jørgen E. Olesen

  • Cereal yield gaps across Europe

    René Schils;Jørgen E. Olesen;Kurt-Christian Kersebaum;Bert Rijk

  • Changes in time of sowing, flowering and maturity of cereals in Europe under climate change

    J.E. Olesen;C.D. Børgesen;L. Elsgaard;Taru Palosuo

  • Crop rotation modelling—A European model intercomparison

    Chris Kollas;Kurt Christian Kersebaum;Claas Nendel;Kiril Manevski

  • Coincidence of variation in yield and climate in Europe.

    Pirjo Peltonen-Sainio;Lauri Jauhiainen;Miroslav Trnka;Jörgen E. Olesen

  • Analysis and classification of data sets for calibration and validation of agro-ecosystem models

    K.C. Kersebaum;K.J. Boote;J.S. Jorgenson;C. Nendel

  • European Corn Borer life stage model: Regional estimates of pest development and spatial distribution under present and future climate

    M. Trnka;F. Muška;D. Semerádová;M. Dubrovský

  • Mitigation efforts will not fully alleviate the increase in water scarcity occurrence probability in wheat-producing areas

    Miroslav Trnka;Song Feng;Mikhail A. Semenov;Jørgen E. Olesen

Frequent Co-Authors

Zdeněk Žalud
Zdeněk Žalud Mendel University Brno
Rudolf Brázdil
Rudolf Brázdil Czech Academy of Sciences
Josef Eitzinger
Josef Eitzinger BOKU University
Petr Hlavinka
Petr Hlavinka Mendel University Brno
Kurt Christian Kersebaum
Kurt Christian Kersebaum Czech Academy of Sciences
Michael J. Hayes
Michael J. Hayes University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Jørgen E. Olesen
Jørgen E. Olesen Aarhus University
Reimund P. Rötter
Reimund P. Rötter University of Göttingen
Mark Svoboda
Mark Svoboda University of Nebraska–Lincoln

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