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Documentary data and the study of past droughts: a global state of the art
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SYSNO ASEP 0498021 Document Type J - Journal Article R&D Document Type Journal Article Subsidiary J Článek ve WOS Title Documentary data and the study of past droughts: a global state of the art Author(s) Brázdil, Rudolf (UEK-B) RID, SAI, ORCID
Kiss, A. (AT)
Luterbacher, J. (DE)
Nash, D. J. (GB)
Řezníčková, Ladislava (UEK-B) RID, SAISource Title Climate of the Past - ISSN 1814-9324
Roč. 14, č. 12 (2018), s. 1915-1960Number of pages 46 s. Language eng - English Country DE - Germany Keywords documentary data ; drought ; drought indices ; spatio-temporal variability ; forcings ; human impacts Subject RIV DG - Athmosphere Sciences, Meteorology OECD category Meteorology and atmospheric sciences R&D Projects GA17-10026S GA ČR - Czech Science Foundation (CSF) EF16_019/0000797 GA MŠMT - Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS) Institutional support UEK-B - RVO:86652079 UT WOS 000452839800002 EID SCOPUS 85058535181 DOI 10.5194/cp-14-1915-2018 Annotation The use of documentary evidence to investigate past climatic trends and events has become a recognised approach in recent decades. This contribution presents the state of the art in its application to droughts. The range of documentary evidence is very wide, including general annals, chronicles, memoirs and diaries kept by missionaries, travellers and those specifically interested in the weather, records kept by administrators tasked with keeping accounts and other financial and economic records, legal-administrative evidence, religious sources, letters, songs, newspapers and journals, pictographic evidence, chronograms, epigraphic evidence, early instrumental observations, society commentaries, and compilations and books. These are available from many parts of the world. This variety of documentary information is evaluated with respect to the reconstruction of hydroclimatic conditions (precipitation, drought frequency and drought indices). Documentary-based drought reconstructions are then addressed in terms of long-term spatio-temporal fluctuations, major drought events, relationships with external forcing and large-scale climate drivers, socioeconomic impacts and human responses. Documentary-based drought series are also considered from the viewpoint of spatio-temporal variability for certain continents, and their employment together with hydroclimate reconstructions from other proxies (in particular tree rings) is discussed. Finally, conclusions are drawn, and challenges for the future use of documentary evidence in the study of droughts are presented. Workplace Global Change Research Institute Contact Nikola Šviková, svikova.n@czechglobe.cz, Tel.: 511 192 268 Year of Publishing 2019
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