A long-term chronology of summer half-year hailstorms for South
Moravia, Czech Republic

J 2017

A long-term chronology of summer half-year hailstorms for South Moravia, Czech Republic

BRÁZDIL, Rudolf, Kateřina CHROMÁ, Hubert VALÁŠEK, Lukáš DOLÁK, Ladislava ŘEZNÍČKOVÁ et. al.

Basic information

Original name

A long-term chronology of summer half-year hailstorms for South Moravia, Czech Republic

Authors

BRÁZDIL, Rudolf (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Kateřina CHROMÁ (203 Czech Republic), Hubert VALÁŠEK (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Lukáš DOLÁK (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Ladislava ŘEZNÍČKOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Pavel ZAHRADNÍČEK (203 Czech Republic) and Petr DOBROVOLNÝ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Climate Research, 2017, 0936-577X

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

10510 Climatic research

Country of publisher

Germany

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Impact factor

Impact factor: 1.859

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14310/17:00094589

Organization unit

Faculty of Science

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.3354/cr01432

UT WoS

000394182500001

Keywords in English

Hailstorms; Hailstorm days; Damaging hailstorms; Documentary data; Meteoro-logical observations; Fluctuation; South Moravia

Abstract

V originále

Climatological analyses of hailstorms, as phenomena of local or regional occurrence with associated damage, depend strongly on the quality and density of meteorological observations. Documentary sources, both historical and modern, including insurance company records, can be used to complement existing meteorological data or extend them into the period prior to continuous meteorological observations. This paper employs such aids to compile a long-term hailstorm chronology for the summer half-year (April-September) in South Moravia (Czech Republic) based on derivations from various types of documentary evidence together with systematic meteorological records. Although the first single hailstorm record dates back to 17 August 1435, the number of hailstorms detected only increases significantly after the 18th century. Documentary sources favour reports of particularly damaging hailstorms, so frequency increases with the number of surviving documents; obviously, this can never achieve the coverage maintained in the period of organised meteorological observations. The best temporal coverage of hailstorm days during the summer half-year in South Moravia starts in 1925 and expresses an overal decreasing trend of -0.05 d per 10 yr up to 2015, more marked after 1961 (-1.4 d per 10 yr). Particularly damaging hailstorms, on 20 June 1848, 1 July 1902, 10 July 1902 and 19 July 1903, are described. Finally, uncertainties in the hailstorm chronology are discussed, and differences related to various aspects of hailstorm days detected from documentary and meteorological data in three 40 yr periods are analysed.

Links

GA13-19831S, research and development project

Name: Hydrometeorologické extrémy na jižní Moravě odvozené z dokumentárních pramenů

Investor: Czech Science Foundation

Citovat

BRÁZDIL, Rudolf, Kateřina CHROMÁ, Hubert VALÁŠEK, Lukáš DOLÁK, Ladislava ŘEZNÍČKOVÁ, Pavel ZAHRADNÍČEK and Petr DOBROVOLNÝ. A long-term chronology of summer half-year hailstorms for South Moravia, Czech Republic. Climate Research. 2017, vol. 71, No 2, p. 91-109. ISSN 0936-577X. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.3354/cr01432.

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BRÁZDIL, Rudolf, Kateřina CHROMÁ, Hubert VALÁŠEK, Lukáš DOLÁK, Ladislava ŘEZNÍČKOVÁ, Pavel ZAHRADNÍČEK and Petr DOBROVOLNÝ. A long-term chronology of summer half-year hailstorms for South Moravia, Czech Republic. \textit{Climate Research}. 2017, vol.~71, No~2, p.~91-109. ISSN~0936-577X. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.3354/cr01432.

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