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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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.
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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 Germany
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
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
Tags AKR, rivok
Tags International impact, Reviewed
Changed by Changed by: Mgr. Lukáš Dolák, Ph.D., učo 263084. Changed: 13/3/2018 10:34.
Abstract
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.
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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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