Potential of Documentary Evidence to Study Fatalities of Hydrological and Meteorological Events in the Czech Republic

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F86652079%3A_____%2F19%3A00509021" target="_blank" >RIV/86652079:_____/19:00509021 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/00216224:14310/19:00110826 RIV/00020699:_____/19:N0000058

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/11/10/2014" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/11/10/2014</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/w11102014" target="_blank" >10.3390/w11102014</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Potential of Documentary Evidence to Study Fatalities of Hydrological and Meteorological Events in the Czech Republic

Original language description

This paper presents the potential of documentary evidence for enhancing the study of fatalities taking place in the course of hydrological and meteorological events (HMEs). Chronicles, “books of memory”, weather diaries, newspapers (media), parliamentary proposals, epigraphic evidence, systematic meteorological/hydrological observations, and professional papers provide a broad base for gathering such information in the Czech Republic, especially since 1901. The spatiotemporal variability of 269 fatalities in the Czech Republic arising out of 103 HMEs (flood, flash flood, windstorm, convective storm, lightning, frost, snow/glaze-ice calamity, heat, and other events) in the 1981–2018 period is presented, with particular attention to closer characterisation of fatalities (gender, age, cause of death, place, type of death, and behaviour). Examples of three outstanding events with the highest numbers of fatalities (severe frosts in the extremely cold winter of 1928/1929, a flash flood on 9 June 1970, and a rain flood in July 1997) are described in detail. Discussion of results includes the problem of data uncertainty, factors influencing the numbers of fatalities, and the broader context. Since floods are responsible for the highest proportion of HME-related deaths, places with fatalities are located mainly around rivers and drowning appears as the main cause of death. In the further classification of fatalities, males and adults clearly prevail, while indirect victims and hazardous behaviour are strongly represented.

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

10503 - Water resources

Project

<a href="/en/project/EF16_019%2F0000797" target="_blank" >EF16_019/0000797: SustES - Adaptation strategies for sustainable ecosystem services and food security under adverse environmental conditions</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Water

ISSN

2073-4441

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

11

Issue of the periodical within the volume

10

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

25

Pages from-to

1-25

UT code for WoS article

000495598400058

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85073253258