Central Europe, 1531-1540 CE: The driest summer decade of the past five centuries?

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F86652079%3A_____%2F20%3A00537307" target="_blank" >RIV/86652079:_____/20:00537307 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/00216224:14310/20:00117376

Result on the web

<a href="https://cp.copernicus.org/articles/16/2125/2020/" target="_blank" >https://cp.copernicus.org/articles/16/2125/2020/</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/cp-16-2125-2020" target="_blank" >10.5194/cp-16-2125-2020</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Central Europe, 1531-1540 CE: The driest summer decade of the past five centuries?

Original language description

Based on three drought indices (SPI, SPEI, Z-index) reconstructed from documentary evidence and instrumental records, the summers of 1531-1540 were identified as the driest summer decade during the 1501-2015 period in the Czech Lands. Based on documentary data, extended from the Czech scale to central Europe, dry patterns of various intensities (represented, for example, by dry spells, low numbers of precipitation days, very low rivers, and drying-out of water sources) occurred in 1532, 1534-1536, 1538, and particularly 1540, broken by wetter or normal patterns in 1531, 1533, 1537, and 1539. Information relevant to summer droughts extracted from documentary data in central Europe was confirmed in summer precipitation totals from a multiproxy reconstruction for Europe by Pauling et al. (2006) and further by self-calibrated summer Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI) reconstruction from tree ring widths in Old World Drought Atlas (OWDA) by Cook et al. (2015). The summer patterns described are consistent with the distribution of sea level pressure deviations from a modern reference period Summer droughts were responsible for numerous negative impacts, such as bad harvests of certain crops, reduction and lack of water sources, and frequent forest fires, while in the wetter summers central Europe was affected by floods. However, there are no indications of severe impacts of a multi-country or multi-year effect. Reconstructions based on documentary data indicate that the summers of 1531-1540 constitute the driest summer decade in central Europe for the past five centuries between 1501 and 2010 CE.

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

10510 - Climatic research

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

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Climate of the Past

ISSN

1814-9324

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

16

Issue of the periodical within the volume

6

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

27

Pages from-to

2125-2151

UT code for WoS article

000589954000001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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