Commentary to Wetter et al. (2014): Limited tree-ring evidence for a 1540 European 'Megadrought'
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10584-015-1423-1" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10584-015-1423-1</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10584-015-1423-1" target="_blank" >10.1007/s10584-015-1423-1</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Commentary to Wetter et al. (2014): Limited tree-ring evidence for a 1540 European 'Megadrought'
Original language description
Wetter et al. (2014; hereinafter W14) conclude that western Europe experienced significantly higher temperatures in AD 1540 compared to all other years in the instrumental record, including the summer heat waves of 2003 and 2010 (Schar et al. 2004; Barriopedro et al. 2011). Based on 300+ first-hand documentary weather reports, the authors argue that large parts of Europe were hit by an unprecedented, 11-month-long, 'Megadrought' in 1540 exceeding all recorded and reconstructed levels, and falling outside the probability range of state-of-the-art palaeoclimate model simulations. Despite compiling, transforming and interpreting an exceptional pool of documentary evidence, W14 neglected to systematically analyse the existing collection of European tree ring-based climate reconstructions. An independent comparison of their findings from societal entries against natural proxy archives, however, would have been beneficial. For example, Pauling et al. (2006), already identified low precipitation amounts in 1540 derived mainly from tree-ring analyses, a study not cited in W14. In this reply we look into some of the tree-ring data available back to 1540 and before, and demonstrate that W14's conclusion regarding the inability of natural proxy archives to record climate extremes is not defensible.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
EH - Ecology - communities
OECD FORD branch
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Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2015
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Climatic Change
ISSN
0165-0009
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
131
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
8
Pages from-to
183-190
UT code for WoS article
000357037700001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-84933673718