BRÁZDIL, Rudolf, Kateřina CHROMÁ, Hubert VALÁŠEK, Lukáš DOLÁK and Ladislava ŘEZNÍČKOVÁ. Damaging hailstorms in South Moravia, Czech Republic, in the seventeenth to twentieth centuries as derived from taxation records. Theoretical and Applied Climatology. Springer Vienna, vol. 123, 1-2, p. 185-198. ISSN 0177-798X. doi:10.1007/s00704-014-1338-1. 2016.
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Original name Damaging hailstorms in South Moravia, Czech Republic, in the seventeenth to twentieth centuries as derived from taxation records
Authors BRÁZDIL, Rudolf (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Kateřina CHROMÁ (203 Czech Republic), Hubert VALÁŠEK (203 Czech Republic), Lukáš DOLÁK (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Ladislava ŘEZNÍČKOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution).
Edition Theoretical and Applied Climatology, Springer Vienna, 2016, 0177-798X.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 10500 1.5. Earth and related environmental sciences
Country of publisher Austria
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
Impact factor Impact factor: 2.640
RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14310/16:00087718
Organization unit Faculty of Science
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00704-014-1338-1
UT WoS 000368715000015
Keywords in English hailstorm; taxation data; spatiotemporal variability; outstanding hailstorm; damage; South Moravia
Tags AKR, rivok
Changed by Changed by: Mgr. Lukáš Dolák, Ph.D., učo 263084. Changed: 13/3/2018 10:36.
Abstract
Hailstorms are among the hydrometeorological extremes recognised in the historical past of the Czech Lands as grounds for tax relief if agricultural crops or material structures were damaged by them. The administrative process involved three levels (community, regional office, land office). The damage reports and taxation records for South Moravia were mainly stored in the Moravian Land Archives at Brno in estate accounts and collections of family archives. Data related to the date of a given hailstorm, its accompanying convective phenomena, the communities affected and the type of damage, as interpreted from taxation records, has created a database spanning the years 1650 to 1941 AD. A total of 766 records contain descriptions that cover 433 days upon which hailstorms did damage in South Moravia, as well as incidentally provide some additional information for the remainder of the Czech Lands and other parts of the Austro-Hungarian empire. The hailstorms detected concentrate to a large extent around the 1821–1850 period, which accounts for 44.4 % of all events. Although reported most frequently without other convective phenomena, they were often accompanied by torrential rain. The current contribution analyses the four most outstanding hailstorms in detail, those characterised by the highest number of estates and communities affected: 26 May 1830, 18 July 1832, 25 June 1844 and 20 June 1848. Uncertainties in hailstorm data, particularly with regard to their spatial and temporal heterogeneity, are discussed. Finally, the 1811–1850 period, with the highest number of hailstorm days, is compared with hailstorm patterns that derive from systematic meteorological observations in the 1961–2000 reference period. Damaging hailstorms disclosed by taxation data will be used to compile long-term hailstorm series for South Moravia (together with those derived from other documentary evidence and systematic meteorological observations).
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GA13-19831S, research and development projectName: Hydrometeorologické extrémy na jižní Moravě odvozené z dokumentárních pramenů
Investor: Czech Science Foundation
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