Biogeographical drivers of ragweed pollen concentrations in Europe

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00704-017-2184-8" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00704-017-2184-8</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00704-017-2184-8" target="_blank" >10.1007/s00704-017-2184-8</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Biogeographical drivers of ragweed pollen concentrations in Europe

Original language description

The drivers of spatial variation in ragweed pollen concentrations, contributing to severe allergic rhinitis and asthma, are poorly quantified. We analysed the spatiotemporal variability in 16-year (1995-2010) annual total (66 stations) and annual total (2010) (162 stations) ragweed pollen counts and 8 independent variables (start, end and duration of the ragweed pollen season, maximum daily and calendar day of the maximum daily ragweed pollen counts, last frost day in spring, first frost day in fall and duration of the frost-free period) for Europe (16 years, 1995-2010) as a function of geographical coordinates. Then annual total pollen counts, annual daily peak pollen counts and date of this peak were regressed against frost-related variables, daily mean temperatures and daily precipitation amounts. To achieve this, we assembled the largest ragweed pollen data set to date for Europe. The dependence of the annual total ragweed pollen counts and the eight independent variables against geographical coordinates clearly distinguishes the three highly infected areas: the Pannonian Plain, Western Lombardy and the Rhone-Alpes region. All the eight variables are sensitive to longitude through its temperature dependence. They are also sensitive to altitude, due to the progressively colder climate with increasing altitude. Both annual total pollen counts and the maximum daily pollen counts depend on the start and the duration of the ragweed pollen season. However, no significant changes were detected in either the eight independent variables as a function of increasing latitude. This is probably due to a mixed climate induced by strong geomorphological inhomogeneities in Europe.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10509 - Meteorology and atmospheric sciences

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

ISSN

0177-798X

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

133

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1-2

Country of publishing house

AT - AUSTRIA

Number of pages

19

Pages from-to

277-295

UT code for WoS article

000436245600023

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85020684628