Drought periods in 2014

0473292 - ÚVGZ 2017 RIV CZ eng C - Conference Paper (international conference)
Zahradníček, Pavel - Trnka, Miroslav - Štěpánek, Petr - Semerádová, Daniela - Farda, Aleš
Drought periods in 2014.
Mendel and Bioclimatology. Brno: Mendel university in Brno, 2016 - (Březina, J.; Halová, H.; Litschmann, T.; Rožnovský, J.; Středa, T.; Středová, H.), (2016), s. 448-457. ISBN 978-80-7509-397-4.
[International Conference on Mendel and Bioclimatology. Brno (CZ), 03.09.2014-05.09.2014]
Institutional support: RVO:67179843
Keywords : data quality-control * model * drought * Czech Republic * year 2014 * precipitation * temperature
Subject RIV: DG - Athmosphere Sciences, Meteorology

The first half of year 2014 was characterized by the occurrence of extreme weather. Episode without precipitation were alternated with thunderstorms, temperature were mostly above normal and was occurred first heat wave. The year began with a very mild winter, when amount of snow was only 27% of long term average and in agricultural region South Moravia only about 10%. The winter temperature was more than 2 degrees C higher than normal. March and April were characterized by low sum of precipitation mainly again in South Moravia, both months were about 70% of long term average. March and April temperature were significantly above normal (March about more than about 4 degrees C and April more than 2 degrees C). In contrast May was cold and rainy. In the middle of the month there were persistent rainfall, which caused an increase of river levels and flooding several areas. June was again very dry. These weather conditions led to the strong dry episodes during first half of the year.
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