The extraordinary windstorm of 7 December 1868 in the Czech Lands and its central European context

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/86652079:_____/17:00477309 RIV/00216224:14310/17:00094793

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/joc.4973" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/joc.4973</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/joc.4973" target="_blank" >10.1002/joc.4973</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The extraordinary windstorm of 7 December 1868 in the Czech Lands and its central European context

Original language description

An extreme windstorm that took place on 7 December 1868 in the Czech Lands is analysed by means of rich documentary evidence from narrative sources, damage records, forestry journals and newspapers. Early meteorological measurements and a numerical atmospheric reanalysis support the documentary reconstruction. The windstorm reached hurricane-force over the Czech Lands between 0900 and 1600 of local mean time and was related to the passage of a cold front. The high winds, achieving hurricane-force, led to loss of human lives and many other casualties, as well as to severe damage to buildings and other structures. In particular, the documentary sources facilitate a quantitative reconstruction of the massive windthrow that occurred in forested areas across the Czech Lands, where the windstorm damaged at least 8 million cubic metres of timber, which is arguably more than has been lost to any single similar event since. Reasons for the extreme windthrow, apart from wind forces and destabilization arising from wet and thawed soils, were found in increased vulnerability arising out of old, dense and mono-species conifer stands and inadequate clear-cutting and thinning measures. For the Czech Lands, this event was the most damaging windstorm in the 19th century. Moreover, damage reports are found from the British Isles, the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany to Austria, the Czech Lands and Poland, documenting its disastrous effects on a (sub-)continental scale.

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

10511 - Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)

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)

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

International Journal of Climatology

ISSN

0899-8418

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

37

Issue of the periodical within the volume

S1

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

16

Pages from-to

14-29

UT code for WoS article

000417298600002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85028437401