Research Interests

1. Components of the hydrology cycle and interactions between them
2. Reprocessed GNSS tropospheric products
3. GRACE terrestrial water storage

Publications: PhD thesis

Mircheva B., 2021, "Anomalies of hydrological cycle components in Bulgaria for the period 2004-2013", PhD thesis, Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria.

Publications: Articles in Journals

1. B.Mircheva and G. Guerova, 2021. Comparative analysis of two drought indices for the period 2003-2014 for the Sofia region , Annuaire de l’Université de Sofia “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Faculté de Physique, v. 113.
2. Villalobos-Herrera R., E. Bevacqua, A. F. S. Ribeiro, G. Auld, L. Crocetti, B. Mircheva, M. Ha, J. Zscheischler and C. De Michele, 2021. Towards a compound event-oriented climate model evaluation: A decomposition of the underlying biases in multivariate fire and heat stress hazards, Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 21, 1867–188, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-21-1867-2021.
3. Mircheva B., M. Tsekov, U. Meyer and G. Guerova, 2020. Analysis of the 2014 Wet Extreme in Bulgaria: Anomalies of Temperature, Precipitation and Terrestrial Water Storage, Hydrology, 7(3), 66, https://doi.org/10.3390/hydrology7030066.
4. Mircheva B., M. Tsekov, U. Meyer and G. Guerova, 2017. Anomalies of hydrological cycle components during the 2007 heat wave in Bulgaria, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 165-166, 1-9, 10.1016/j.jastp.2017.10.005.

Publications: Articles in Books

1. Mircheva B. and G. Guerova, "Anomalies of hydrological cycle components during the 2007 heat wave in Bulgaria", in COST Action ES1206: Advanced Global Navigation Satellite Systems tropospheric products for monitoring severe weather events and climate, Jones J., G. Guerova, J. Dousa, G. Dick, S. de Haan, E. Pottiaux, O. Bock, R. Pacione, R. van Malderen [editors], Springer [publisher], 2020, 381-384, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-13901-8_5.

Oral and poster presentations

1. Mircheva B. and G. Guerova "GRACE satellite system and GNSS Meteorology", 4th Scientific Seminar "Physics and chemistry of the Earth System", 9-11/10/2022, Bania, Bulgaria. (oral)
2. Mircheva B., M. Tsekov, U. Mayer, and G. Guerova "Anomalies of hydrological cycle components during the 2007 heat wave in Bulgaria", 8th International Colloquium Scientific and Fundamental Aspects of GNSS, 14-16/09/2022, Sofia, Bulgaria. (oral)
3. Mircheva B., M. Tsekov, U. Mayer, and G. Guerova "Analysis of the 2014 wet extreme in Bulgaria: anomalies of temperature, precipitation and terrestrial water storage”, Workshop on Compound Weather and Climate Events, 12-15/01/2021, University of Bern, Switzerland. (poster)
4. Villalobos-Herrera R., E. Bevacqua, A. F. S. Ribeiro, G. Auld, L. Crocetti, B. Mircheva, M. Ha, J. Zscheischler and C. De Michele, "A copula-based decomposition of multivariate biases in climate models, with an application to compound fire and heat stress hazards", Workshop on Compound Weather and Climate Events, 12-15/01/2021, University of Bern, Switzerland. (poster)
5. Mircheva B. "GNSS & GRACE”, First colloquium “GNSS applications in the BalkanMed region” 30-31/01/2020, Sofia University, Bulgaria. (oral)
6. Mircheva B. "Anomalies of the components of the hydrological cycle in Bulgaria during 2014 floods", 6th annual meeting of the Avio-meteorologic club, 19/10/2019, Panitchiste, Bulgaria.
7. Mircheva B., M. Tsekov, U. Mayer, and G. Guerova "Anomalies of hydrological cycle components during the 2007 heat wave in Bulgaria", DOMOCLES COST Action, WG4 meeting 18-19/06/2019 Graz Austria. (oral)
8. Mircheva B., M. Tsekov, U. Mayer, and G. Guerova "Anomalies of hydrological cycle components during the 2007 heat wave in Bulgaria", EGU 7-12/04/2019 Vienna Austria. (poster)
9. Mircheva B., M. Tsekov, U. Mayer, and G. Guerova "Extreme weather events in Southeast Europe: the 2014 floods in Bulgaria", 4th International Training School, “Convective and volcanic clouds detection, monitoring and modeling”, Nicolosi - Etna, Italy, 28 September – 6 October, 2018. (oral)
10. Mircheva B., M. Tsekov, U. Meyer and G. Guerova, "Anomalies of hydrological cycle components during the 2007 heat wave in Bulgaria", 6th International Colloquium Scientific and Fundamental Aspects of the Galileo Programme, 25-27 October 2017, Valencia, Spain. (oral)
11. Mircheva B., M. Tsekov, U. Meyer and G. Guerova, "Anomalies of hydrological cycle components during the 2007 heat wave in Bulgaria", 2017 EMS Annual Meeting: European Conference for Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 4-8 September 2017, Dublin, Ireland. (poster)
12. Mircheva B., M. Tsekov, U. Meyer and G. Guerova, "Anomalies of hydrological cycle components during the 2007 heat wave in Bulgaria", Annual meeting of the Avio-meteorologic club, Borevents, Bulgaria 3-4/06/2017. (oral)
13. M. Slavchev and B. Mircheva, "Evaluation of hail storm and flash floods in Bulgaria during 2014 using GNSS meteorology", GNSS4SWEC Final Workshop, 21-23/02/2017, ESTEC, Netherlands. (oral)
14. Guerova G., Tzv. Simeonov, M. Slavchev, A. Stoycheva, B. Mircheva, "Bulgarian contribution to COST Action Advanced Global Navigation Satellite Systems tropospheric products for monitoring severe weather events and climate (GNSS4SWEC)", 3nd National Physics Congress, 29/09-2/10/2016, Sofia, Bulgaria. (oral)
15. B. Mircheva, "Terrestrial water storage anomaly during the 2007 heat wave in Bulgaria", 2nd GNSS4SWEC summer school, 29-31/08/2016, Potsdam, Germany. (poster)
16. Mircheva B., Tzv. Simeonov, G. Guerova and P.Szabo, "Study of the 2007 heat wave in South-east Europe: anomalies and connections of IWV, temperature, precipitation and terrestrial water storage", 3rd GNSS4SWEC workshop, 8-10/03/2016, Reykjavik, Iceland. (oral)
17. B. Mircheva, "GNSS radio occultation", GNSS4SWEC summer school, 8-11/09/2014, Golden Sands, Bulgaria. (poster)