Extreme droughts and human responses to them: the Czech Lands in the pre-instrumental period

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Alternative codes found

RIV/86652079:_____/19:00504363 RIV/00216224:14310/19:00107208

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-15-1-2019" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-15-1-2019</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/cp-15-1-2019" target="_blank" >10.5194/cp-15-1-2019</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Extreme droughts and human responses to them: the Czech Lands in the pre-instrumental period

Original language description

The Czech Lands are particularly rich in documentary sources that help elucidate droughts in the pre-instrumental period (12th-18th centuries), together with descriptions of human responses to them. Although droughts appear less frequently before 1501, the documentary evidence has enabled the creation of a series of seasonal and summer half-year drought indices (Standardized Precipitation Index, SPI; Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index, SPEI; Z index) for the Czech Lands for the 1501-2017 period. Based on the calculation of return period for series of drought indices, extreme droughts were selected for inclusion herein if all three indices indicated a return period of &gt;= 20 years. For further analysis, only those from the pre-instrumental period (before 1804) were used. The extreme droughts selected are characterized by significantly lower values of drought indices, higher temperatures and lower precipitation totals compared to other years. The sea-level pressure patterns typically associated with extreme droughts include significantly higher pressure over Europe and significantly lower pressure over parts of the Atlantic Ocean. Extreme droughts with a return period &gt;= 50 years are described in detail on the basis of Czech documentary evidence. A number of selected extreme droughts are reflected in other central European reconstructions derived from documentary data or tree rings. Impacts on social life and responses to extreme droughts are summarized; analysis of fluctuations in grain prices with respect to drought receives particular attention. Finally, extreme droughts from the pre-instrumental and instrumental periods are discussed.

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

Climate of the Past

ISSN

1814-9324

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

15

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

24

Pages from-to

1-24

UT code for WoS article

000455222200001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85059702464