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Nina Nikolova

Nina Nikolova is a astronomy topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Nina Nikolova rather than just read about it. In short: Nina Vankova Nikolova is a Bulgarian climatologist, and a professor at Sofia University. Biography Nikolova graduated from Sofia University in 1991 with a degree in geography.

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Reference excerpt

Nina Vankova Nikolova is a Bulgarian climatologist, and a professor at Sofia University.

Biography Nikolova graduated from Sofia University in 1991 with a degree in geography. She defended her doctoral dissertation "Changes in air temperature in the mountainous part of Bulgaria" on 27 February 1991. From February 1999 to January 2000, she was a specialist at the Meteorological Research Institute in Tsukuba, Japan, where she conducted research on global and regional climate change. Since 2001 she has been appointed as an assistant, and then as a chief assistant in the Department of Climatology, Hydrology and Geomorphology in the Faculty of Geology and Geography at Sofia University. In 2001 she was appointed as a specialist geographer at the National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Since April 2008 she has been a docent, and in 2018 she became a professor. She is an editor of international journals Geographica Pannonica, Forum geografic, Acta Hydrologica Slovaca, the Bulletin of the Serbian Geographical Society, and Geographic Society of the Republic of Srpska. She is a member of the International Association for Urban Climate and International Association of Geomorphologists in Bulgaria. She is the author or co-author of over 70 articles, studies, reports, and textbooks.

Works Radeva, Kalina; Nikolova, Nina (2020). "Hydrometeorological Drought hazard and vulnerability assessment for Northern Bulgaria". Geographica Pannonica. 24 (2). Centre for Evaluation in Education and Science (CEON/CEES): 112–123. doi:10.5937/gp24-25074. ISSN 0354-8724. S2CID 226525298. Nikolova, Nina; Yanakiev, Dimitar (30 June 2020). "Climate aridity in southern Bulgaria for the period 1961-2015". Forum Geografic. XIX (1): 10–17. doi:10.5775/fg.2020.010.i. S2CID 229079637. Nikolova, Nina; Radeva, Kalina (2019). "Data Processing for Assessment of Meteorological and Hydrological Drought". Information Technology in Disaster Risk Reduction. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. Vol. 516. Cham: Springer International Publishing. pp. 145–160. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-18293-9_13. ISBN 978-3-030-18292-2. ISSN 1868-4238. S2CID 133609118. Radeva, Kalina; Nikolova, Nina; Gera, Martin (29 June 2018). "Assessment of hydro-meteorological drought in the Danube Plain, Bulgaria". Hrvatski geografski glasnik (in Croatian). 80 (1): 7–25. doi:10.21861/HGG.2018.80.01.01. ISSN 1331-5854. Chenkova, Nina; Nikolova, Nina. "DOI Serbia časopisi". Thermal Science. 19 (suppl. 2): 381–390. doi:10.2298/TSCI150430104C.

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Worked examples

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Example 2 — changing one variable

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Example 3 — an exam-style question

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Applications of Nina Nikolova

In research: Nina Nikolova appears in astronomy research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Nina Nikolova in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Nina Nikolova is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 21st-century Bulgarian scientists, 21st-century Bulgarian women scientists, Academic staff of Sofia University, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Nina Nikolova outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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What is Nina Nikolova in simple terms?

Nina Vankova Nikolova is a Bulgarian climatologist, and a professor at Sofia University. Biography Nikolova graduated from Sofia University in 1991 with a degree in geography.

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