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. vol. 71, No 2, p. 91-109. ISSN 0936-577X. doi:10.3354/cr01432. 2017.
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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.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 10510 Climatic research
Country of publisher Germany
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
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
Tags AKR, NZ, rivok
Changed by Changed by: Mgr. Ladislava Řezníčková, Ph.D., učo 13826. Changed: 13/3/2018 14:24.
Abstract
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.
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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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