The extreme drought of 1842 in Europe as described by both documentary data and instrumental measurements

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F62156489%3A43210%2F19%3A43916493" target="_blank" >RIV/62156489:43210/19:43916493 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/86652079:_____/19:00509638 RIV/00216224:14310/19:00107719 RIV/00020699:_____/19:N0000054

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-15-1861-2019" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-15-1861-2019</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/cp-15-1861-2019" target="_blank" >10.5194/cp-15-1861-2019</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The extreme drought of 1842 in Europe as described by both documentary data and instrumental measurements

Original language description

Extreme droughts are weather phenomena of considerable importance, involving significant environmental and societal impacts. While those that have occurred in the comparatively recent period of instrumental measurement are identified and dated on the basis of systematic, machine-standardized meteorological and hydrological observations, droughts that took place in the pre-instrumental period are usually described only through the medium of documentary evidence. The extreme drought of 1842 in Europe presents a case in which information from documentary data can be combined with systematic instrumental observations. Seasonal, gridded European precipitation totals are used herein to describe general DJF, MAM, and JJA precipitation patterns. Annual variations in monthly temperatures and precipitation at individual stations are expressed with respect to a 1961-1990 reference period, supplemented by calculation of selected drought indices (Standardized Precipitation Index, SPI; Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index, SPEI; and Palmer Z index). The mean circulation patterns during the driest months are elucidated by means of sea-level pressure (SLP) maps, the North Atlantic Oscillation Index (NAOI), and the Central European Zonal Index (CEZI). Generally drier patterns in 1842 prevailed in January-February and at various intensities between April and August. The driest patterns in 1842 occurred in a broad zonal belt extending from France to eastern central Europe. A range of documentary data is used to describe the peculiarities of agricultural, hydrological, and socio-economic droughts, with particular attention to environmental and societal impacts and human responses to them. Although overall grain yields were not very strongly influenced, a particularly bad hay harvest, no aftermath (hay from a second cut), and low potato yields led to severe problems, especially for those who raised cattle. Finally, the 1842 drought is discussed in terms of long-term drought variability, European tree-ring-based scPDSI (self-calibrated Palmer Drought Severity Index) reconstruction, and the broader context of societal impacts.

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

5

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

24

Pages from-to

1861-1884

UT code for WoS article

000491148900001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85073699587