Climatic effects and impacts of the 1815 eruption of Mount
Tambora in the Czech Lands

J 2016

Climatic effects and impacts of the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora in the Czech Lands

BRÁZDIL, Rudolf, Ladislava ŘEZNÍČKOVÁ, Hubert VALÁŠEK, Lukáš DOLÁK, Oldřich KOTYZA et. al.

Basic information

Original name

Climatic effects and impacts of the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora in the Czech Lands

Authors

BRÁZDIL, Rudolf (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Ladislava ŘEZNÍČKOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Hubert VALÁŠEK (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Lukáš DOLÁK (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Oldřich KOTYZA (203 Czech Republic)

Edition

Climate of the Past, 2016, 1814-9324

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

10500 1.5. Earth and related environmental sciences

Country of publisher

Germany

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Impact factor

Impact factor: 3.543

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14310/16:00087996

Organization unit

Faculty of Science

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/cp-12-1361-2016

UT WoS

000379420600005

Keywords in English

documentary data; climate; Tambora eruption; human impacts; Czech Lands

Abstract

V originále

The eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia in 1815 was one of the most powerful of its kind in recorded history. This contribution addresses climatic responses to it, the post-eruption weather, and its impacts on human life in the Czech Lands. The climatic effects are evaluated in terms of air temperature and precipitation on the basis of long-term homogenised series from the Prague-Klementinum and Brno meteorological stations, and mean Czech series in the short term (1810–1820) and long term (1800–2010). This analysis is complemented by other climatic and environmental data derived from rich documentary evidence. Czech documentary sources make no direct mention of the Tambora eruption, neither do they relate any particular weather phenomena to it, but they record an extremely wet summer for 1815 and an extremely cold summer for 1816 (the “Year Without a Summer”) that contributed to bad grain harvests and widespread grain price increases in 1817. Possible reasons for the cold summers in the first decade of the 19th century reflected in the contemporary press included comets, sunspot activity, long-term cooling and finally – as late as 1817 – earthquakes with volcanic eruptions.

Links

GA13-19831S, research and development project

Name: Hydrometeorologické extrémy na jižní Moravě odvozené z dokumentárních pramenů

Investor: Czech Science Foundation

Citovat

BRÁZDIL, Rudolf, Ladislava ŘEZNÍČKOVÁ, Hubert VALÁŠEK, Lukáš DOLÁK and Oldřich KOTYZA. Climatic effects and impacts of the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora in the Czech Lands. Climate of the Past. 2016, vol. 12, No 6, p. 1361-1374. ISSN 1814-9324. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.5194/cp-12-1361-2016.

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BRÁZDIL, Rudolf, Ladislava ŘEZNÍČKOVÁ, Hubert VALÁŠEK, Lukáš DOLÁK and Oldřich KOTYZA. Climatic effects and impacts of the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora in the Czech Lands. \textit{Climate of the Past}. 2016, vol.~12, No~6, p.~1361-1374. ISSN~1814-9324. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.5194/cp-12-1361-2016.

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