Documentary evidence as a source of data for studying droughts in the Czech lands

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Alternative codes found
RIV/00216224:14310/15:00081158
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Documentary evidence as a source of data for studying droughts in the Czech lands
Original language description
Information about past droughts may be derived from the various kinds of documentary evidence. Documentary data are particularly applicable to the pre-instrumental period but may also be used for the overlapping period with instrumental records. They are extracted from written narrative sources, weather diaries, personal and official letters, newspapers, religious records, epigraphic sources, and other sources. Direct descriptions of weather facilitate identification of meteorological droughts, while descriptions of drought impacts are used to identify agricultural and hydrological droughts. Documentary evidence enabled the creation of series of precipitation indices which classify dry months on a scale of –1 (dry), –2 (very dry), and –3 (extremely dry). In this way, it is possible to study the frequency, seasonality, severity, and impacts of drought episodes in the pre-instrumental period.
Czech name
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Czech description
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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
2015
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection
Global Change: A Complex Challenge : Conference Proceedings
ISBN
978-80-87902-10-3
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Number of pages
4
Pages from-to
26-29
Publisher name
Global Change Research Centre, The Czech Academy of Sciences, v. v. i.
Place of publication
Brno
Event location
Brno
Event date
Mar 23, 2015
Type of event by nationality
WRD - Celosvětová akce
UT code for WoS article
000381161600005

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