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Droughts in the Czech Lands during 18th century
Authors: Brázdil, Rudolf ; Řezníčková, Ladislava ; Kotyza, O. ; Valášek, H. ; Dobrovolný, Petr
Document type: Papers
Conference/Event: Global Change and Resilience, Brno (CZ), 2013-05-22 / 2013-05-24
Year: 2013
Language: eng
Abstract: Th is paper addresses dry episodes and droughts in the Czech Lands during the 18th century. It is based on various types of documentary evidence, including data describing phenomena related to drought patterns, from the occurrence of precipitation (or lack of it) to derived impacts (bad yields, water shortages, drying watercourses, etc.). Th e documentary data include various degrees of detail, but their interpretation allows work at the level of monthly resolution. Dry conditions for at least two consecutive months in a given year were considered as drought for our purposes. A total of 49 years with droughts were derived from documentary data, with the prevailing occurrence of dry months in the summer half-year (April–September: 66.0%) associated with the most severe impacts. Th is shows that probably all the droughts with two-year re-occurrence intervals were identifi ed from the documentary data available. As examples of impacts and their territorial extent, some years with severe droughts in the eastern part of the Czech Lands, Moravia, are described (1718, 1719, 1726, 1746, and 1790). Th e results obtained are an important contribution to the more broadly-oriented study of droughts in the Czech Lands during the past 500 years based on documentary and instrumental data.
Keywords: 18th century; droughts in the Czech lands
Project no.: EE2.3.20.0248
Funding provider: GA MŠk
Host item entry: Global Change and Resilience: From Impacts to Responses : Proceedings of the 3rd annual Global Change and Resilience Conference, ISBN 978-80-904351-8-6
Institution: Global Change Research Institute AS ČR (web)
Document availability information: Fulltext is available at the institute of the Academy of Sciences.
Original record: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0229578
Permalink: http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-170325
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Authors: Brázdil, Rudolf ; Řezníčková, Ladislava ; Kotyza, O. ; Valášek, H. ; Dobrovolný, Petr
Document type: Papers
Conference/Event: Global Change and Resilience, Brno (CZ), 2013-05-22 / 2013-05-24
Year: 2013
Language: eng
Abstract: Th is paper addresses dry episodes and droughts in the Czech Lands during the 18th century. It is based on various types of documentary evidence, including data describing phenomena related to drought patterns, from the occurrence of precipitation (or lack of it) to derived impacts (bad yields, water shortages, drying watercourses, etc.). Th e documentary data include various degrees of detail, but their interpretation allows work at the level of monthly resolution. Dry conditions for at least two consecutive months in a given year were considered as drought for our purposes. A total of 49 years with droughts were derived from documentary data, with the prevailing occurrence of dry months in the summer half-year (April–September: 66.0%) associated with the most severe impacts. Th is shows that probably all the droughts with two-year re-occurrence intervals were identifi ed from the documentary data available. As examples of impacts and their territorial extent, some years with severe droughts in the eastern part of the Czech Lands, Moravia, are described (1718, 1719, 1726, 1746, and 1790). Th e results obtained are an important contribution to the more broadly-oriented study of droughts in the Czech Lands during the past 500 years based on documentary and instrumental data.
Keywords: 18th century; droughts in the Czech lands
Project no.: EE2.3.20.0248
Funding provider: GA MŠk
Host item entry: Global Change and Resilience: From Impacts to Responses : Proceedings of the 3rd annual Global Change and Resilience Conference, ISBN 978-80-904351-8-6
Institution: Global Change Research Institute AS ČR (web)
Document availability information: Fulltext is available at the institute of the Academy of Sciences.
Original record: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0229578
Permalink: http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-170325
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Research > Institutes ASCR > Global Change Research Institute
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