Documentary and instrumental-based drought indices for the Czech Lands back to AD 1501

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216224:14310/16:00087932 RIV/62156489:43410/16:43909929

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3354/cr01380" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.3354/cr01380</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3354/cr01380" target="_blank" >10.3354/cr01380</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Documentary and instrumental-based drought indices for the Czech Lands back to AD 1501

Original language description

This study addresses the reconstruction of 4 slightly different drought indices in thenCzech Lands (now the Czech Republic) back to 1501 AD. Reconstructed monthly temperatures fornCentral Europe that are representative for the Czech territory, together with reconstructed seasonalnprecipitation totals from the same area, are used to calculate monthly, seasonal and annualndrought indices (SPI, SPEI, Z-index, and scPDSI). The resulting time series reflect interannual tonmulti-decadal drought variability. The driest episodes cluster around the beginning and end of then18th century, while 1540 emerges as a particularly dry extreme year. The temperature-driven drynessnof the past 3 decades is well captured by SPEI, Z-index and scPDSI, whereas precipitationntotals show no significant trend during this period (as reflected in SPI). Data and methodologicalnuncertainty associated with Czech drought indices, as well as their position in a greater Europeanncontext, are critically outlined. Comparison with fir tree-rings from southern Moravia and a spatialnsubset of the Old World Drought Atlas’ (OWDA) reveals statistically significant correlation coefficients,nof around 0.40 and 0.50, respectively. This study introduces a new documentary-basednapproach for the robust extension of standardised drought indices back into pre-instrumentalntimes, which we also believe has great potential in other parts of the world where high-resolutionnpaleoclimatic insight remains limited.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

EH - Ecology - communities

OECD FORD branch

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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

2016

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Climate Research

ISSN

0936-577X

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

70

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2-3

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

103-117

UT code for WoS article

000388194400002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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