Climate variability and changes in the agricultural cycle in the Czech Lands from the sixteenth century to the present

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216208:11210/18:10383433 RIV/86652079:_____/19:00495667 RIV/00216224:14310/19:00107166 RIV/00216208:11210/19:10383433

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-018-2508-3" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-018-2508-3</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00704-018-2508-3" target="_blank" >10.1007/s00704-018-2508-3</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Climate variability and changes in the agricultural cycle in the Czech Lands from the sixteenth century to the present

Original language description

This contribution analyses the influence of long-term climate variability on changes in the agricultural cycle in the Czech Lands over the course of the past five centuries. Series of crop- and grape-harvest (for wine) dates were compiled from rich documentary evidence for the periods of 1517-1542, 1561-1622, 1770-1815, 1871-1910 and 1971-2010. Two model areas were selected: the Louny region in north-west Bohemia and the Elbe region in central Bohemia. Fluctuations in selected agricultural series are compared with those expressed in temperature, precipitation and Standardised Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI) series for various combinations of months. The basic statistics for the agricultural series are presented, and these are correlated with climatic variables. The earliest starts for harvests occurred in the recent 1971-2010 period and the 1517-1542 period. Harvest dates were comparatively delayed in the three remaining periods. Air temperature, also combined with the drought effect as expressed by SPEI, played a significant role in the agricultural cycle in all periods analysed except 1871-1910, in which temperatures were notably dominant as quite wet patterns prevailed. Summer precipitation played a significant role in the first three periods analysed. Correlation coefficients of agricultural series with temperatures indicate increasing weight for this factor over the course of the centuries. Possible effects of uncertainties in agricultural and climatic data in the results obtained are discussed, as well as the relationship of the agricultural cycle to climate variables and its broader context.

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

10510 - Climatic research

Project

Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2019

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

136

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1-2

Country of publishing house

AT - AUSTRIA

Number of pages

21

Pages from-to

553-573

UT code for WoS article

000464906200040

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85047191726