The year-long unprecedented European heat and drought of 1540 ? a worst case
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14310%2F14%3A00073833" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14310/14:00073833 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/86652079:_____/14:00496503
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10584-014-1184-2" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10584-014-1184-2</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10584-014-1184-2" target="_blank" >10.1007/s10584-014-1184-2</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The year-long unprecedented European heat and drought of 1540 ? a worst case
Original language description
The heat waves of 2003 in Western Europe and 2010 in Russia, commonly labelled as rare climatic anomalies outside of previous experience, are often taken as harbingers of more frequent extremes in the global warming-influenced future. However, a recent reconstruction of spring?summer temperatures for WE resulted in the likelihood of significantly higher temperatures in 1540. In order to check the plausibility of this result we investigated the severity of the 1540 drought by putting forward the argumentof the known soil desiccation-temperature feedback. Based on more than 300 first-hand documentary weather report sources originating from an area of 2 to 3 million km2, we show that Europe was affected by an unprecedented 11-month-long Megadrought. Theestimated number of precipitation days and precipitation amount for Central and Western Europe in 1540 is significantly lower than the 100-year minima of the instrumental measurement period for spring, summer and autumn.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
DG - Atmospheric sciences, meteorology
OECD FORD branch
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Result continuities
Project
Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2014
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Climatic Change
ISSN
0165-0009
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
125
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3-4
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
15
Pages from-to
349-363
UT code for WoS article
000339970700005
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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