Potential of Documentary Evidence to Study Fatalities of Hydrological and Meteorological Events in the Czech Republic

Brázdil, Rudolf; Chromá, Kateřina; Řehoř, J.; Zahradníček, Pavel; Dolák, Lukáš; Řezníčková, Ladislava; Dobrovolný, Petr

doi:https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/w11102014

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Potential of Documentary Evidence to Study Fatalities of Hydrological and Meteorological Events in the Czech Republic

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SYSNO ASEP	0509021
Document Type	J - Journal Article
R&D Document Type	Journal Article
Subsidiary J	Článek ve WOS
Title	Potential of Documentary Evidence to Study Fatalities of Hydrological and Meteorological Events in the Czech Republic
Author(s)	Brázdil, Rudolf (UEK-B)_{RID, SAI, ORCID} Chromá, Kateřina (UEK-B)_{RID, SAI, ORCID} Řehoř, J. (CZ) Zahradníček, Pavel (UEK-B)_{RID, SAI} Dolák, Lukáš (UEK-B)_{RID, SAI, ORCID} Řezníčková, Ladislava (UEK-B)_{RID, SAI} Dobrovolný, Petr (UEK-B)_{RID, ORCID, SAI}
Source Title	Water. - : MDPI Roč. 11, č. 10 (2019), s. 1-25
Number of pages	25 s.
Language	eng - English
Country	CH - Switzerland
Keywords	fatality ; fatality features ; documentary data ; hydrological and meteorological event ; czech republic
Subject RIV	DG - Athmosphere Sciences, Meteorology
OECD category	Water resources
R&D Projects	EF16_019/0000797 GA MŠMT - Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS)
Research Infrastructure	CzeCOS II - 90061 - Ústav výzkumu globální změny AV ČR, v. v. i.
Method of publishing	Open access
Institutional support	UEK-B - RVO:86652079
UT WOS	000495598400058
EID SCOPUS	85073253258
DOI	10.3390/w11102014
Annotation	This paper presents the potential of documentary evidence for enhancing the study of fatalities taking place in the course of hydrological and meteorological events (HMEs). Chronicles, “books of memory”, weather diaries, newspapers (media), parliamentary proposals, epigraphic evidence, systematic meteorological/hydrological observations, and professional papers provide a broad base for gathering such information in the Czech Republic, especially since 1901. The spatiotemporal variability of 269 fatalities in the Czech Republic arising out of 103 HMEs (flood, flash flood, windstorm, convective storm, lightning, frost, snow/glaze-ice calamity, heat, and other events) in the 1981–2018 period is presented, with particular attention to closer characterisation of fatalities (gender, age, cause of death, place, type of death, and behaviour). Examples of three outstanding events with the highest numbers of fatalities (severe frosts in the extremely cold winter of 1928/1929, a flash flood on 9 June 1970, and a rain flood in July 1997) are described in detail. Discussion of results includes the problem of data uncertainty, factors influencing the numbers of fatalities, and the broader context. Since floods are responsible for the highest proportion of HME-related deaths, places with fatalities are located mainly around rivers and drowning appears as the main cause of death. In the further classification of fatalities, males and adults clearly prevail, while indirect victims and hazardous behaviour are strongly represented.
Workplace	Global Change Research Institute
Contact	Nikola Šviková, svikova.n@czechglobe.cz, Tel.: 511 192 268
Year of Publishing	2020
Electronic address	https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/11/10/2014

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