Climatic effects and impacts of the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora in the Czech Lands

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Alternative codes found
RIV/00216224:14310/16:00087996
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/cp-12-1361-2016" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/cp-12-1361-2016</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/cp-12-1361-2016" target="_blank" >10.5194/cp-12-1361-2016</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Climatic effects and impacts of the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora in the Czech Lands
Original language description
The eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia in 1815 was one of the most powerful of its kind in recorded history. This contribution addresses climatic responses to it, the post-eruption weather, and its impacts on human life in the Czech Lands. The climatic effects are evaluated in terms of air temperature and precipitation on the basis of long-term homogenised series from the Prague-Klementinum and Brno meteorological stations, and mean Czech series in the short term (1810-1820) and long term (1800-2010). This analysis is complemented by other climatic and environmental data derived from rich documentary evidence. Czech documentary sources make no direct mention of the Tambora eruption, neither do they relate any particular weather phenomena to it, but they record an extremely wet summer for 1815 and an extremely cold summer for 1816 (the 'Year Without a Summer') that contributed to bad grain harvests and widespread grain price increases in 1817. Possible reasons for the cold summers in the first decade of the 19th century reflected in the contemporary press included comets, sunspot activity, long-term cooling and finally as late as 1817 earthquakes with volcanic eruptions.
Czech name
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Czech description
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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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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

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