Publication details
Climate reconstruction of the Czech lands since 1500: data, methods, contemporary results
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| Year of publication | 2007 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Trends in Research and Teaching of Historical Ecology in Central Europe |
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| Field | Atmosphere sciences, meteorology |
| Keywords | climate reconstruction documentary evidence meteorological extremes Czech lands |
| Description | Overview of documentary evidence on weather and related phenomena from the Czech Lands since AD 1500 is given. Basic data sources from the historical-climatological database of the Institute of Geography, Masaryk University, Brno are mentioned, especially narrative written sources, visual daily weather records, special prints, official economic records, newspapers, epigraphic sources, early instrumental records etc. Such data sources allow to present two basic types of contributions to climate reconstructions. Frequency and intensity of hydrometeorological extremes is the first one and quantitative reconstruction of temperature and precipitation patterns is the second. Basic methodological approaches are demonstrated on several examples along with some common interpretation problems. Present state of climate reconstruction of the Czech lands for the last 500 years is presented. Possible relations to other environmental history disciplines are outlined. On the principle of analogy, historical climatology can bring valuable contribution to mitigation of possible impacts of global climate change to nature and society. |
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