Climate of the Sixteenth Century in the Czech Lands

0427138 - ÚVGZ 2015 RIV CZ eng B - Monography
Brázdil, Rudolf - Kotyza, O. - Dobrovolný, Petr - Řezníčková, Ladislava - Valášek, H.
Climate of the Sixteenth Century in the Czech Lands.
Brno: Masaryk university, 2013. 286 s. History of Weather and Climate in the Czech Lands, 10. ISBN 978-80-210-6565-9
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT(CZ) ED1.1.00/02.0073
Institutional support: RVO:67179843
Keywords : Czech Lands * documentary data * hydrometeorological extremes * precipitation fluctuation * temperature fluctuation
Subject RIV: DG - Athmosphere Sciences, Meteorology

Based on documentary sources climate variability and hydrometeorological extremes of the 16th century in the Czech Lands are analysed. Types of documentary sources are characterised, the most important of them with more details. Weather in individual years from AD 1501 to 1600 is described. Series of temperature and precipitation indices interpreted from documentary sources were used for temperature and precipitation reconstructions. Hydrometeorological extremes (floods, strong winds, convective phenomena, early and late frosts, drought, "bloody" rain and ball lightning), other phenomena (locust, landslides, earthquakes) and impact on viticulture were analysed.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0232757