Climatic and other responses to the Lakagígar 1783 and Tambora 1815 volcanic eruptions in the Czech Lands

0477065 - ÚVGZ 2018 RIV CZ eng J - Journal Article
Brázdil, Rudolf - Řezníčková, Ladislava - Valášek, H. - Dolák, Lukáš - Kotyza, O.
Climatic and other responses to the Lakagígar 1783 and Tambora 1815 volcanic eruptions in the Czech Lands.
Geografie. Roč. 122, č. 2 (2017), s. 147-168. ISSN 1212-0014. E-ISSN 2571-421X
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT(CZ) LO1415; GA ČR(CZ) GA13-19831S
Institutional support: RVO:67179843
Keywords : Lakagı́gar eruption * Tambora eruption * climatic effects * human impacts * Czech Lands
OECD category: Climatic research
Impact factor: 0.745, year: 2017

Using documentary data and long-term temperature and precipitation series for the years 1775-2007, climatic, weather and other phenomena in the Czech Lands following the 1783 Lakagigar eruption in Iceland and the 1815 Tambora eruption in Indonesia are investigated. The Lakagigar eruption had clear post-volcanic effects on the weather in central Europe (dry fog, heavy thunderstorms, optical phenomena), with the occurrence of significant cold temperature anomalies in winter 1783/84, spring 1785 and the summer and autumn of 1786. The Tambora eruption was not accompanied by any particular weather phenomena, but was followed by an extremely cold summer in 1816. A comparison of the two eruptions shows that the effects of the Lakagigar eruption were climatologically stronger than those of the Tambora eruption.
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