Detailed Information on Publication Record
2017
The extraordinary windstorm of 7 December 1868 in the Czech Lands and its central European context
BRÁZDIL, Rudolf, Péter SZABÓ, Peter STUCKI, Petr DOBROVOLNÝ, Ladislava ŘEZNÍČKOVÁ et. al.Basic information
Original name
The extraordinary windstorm of 7 December 1868 in the Czech Lands and its central European context
Authors
BRÁZDIL, Rudolf (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Péter SZABÓ (203 Czech Republic), Peter STUCKI (756 Switzerland), Petr DOBROVOLNÝ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Ladislava ŘEZNÍČKOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Oldřich KOTYZA (203 Czech Republic), Hubert VALÁŠEK (203 Czech Republic), Marián MELO (703 Slovakia), Silvie SUCHÁNKOVÁ (203 Czech Republic), Lukáš DOLÁK (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Kateřina CHROMÁ (203 Czech Republic)
Edition
Internatiol Journal of Climatology, Hoboken, Wiley, 2017, 0899-8418
Other information
Language
English
Type of outcome
Článek v odborném periodiku
Field of Study
10509 Meteorology and atmospheric sciences
Country of publisher
United States of America
Confidentiality degree
není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
Impact factor
Impact factor: 3.100
RIV identification code
RIV/00216224:14310/17:00094793
Organization unit
Faculty of Science
UT WoS
000417298600002
Keywords in English
windstorm of 7 December 1868; documentary data; Twentieth Century Reanalysis; meteorological situation; damage; forestry; Czech Lands; Central Europe
Změněno: 12/4/2018 13:40, Ing. Nicole Zrilić
Abstract
V originále
An extreme windstorm that took place on 7 December 1868 in the Czech Lands is analysed by means of rich documentary evidence from narrative sources, damage records, forestry journals and newspapers. Early meteorological measurements and a numerical atmospheric reanalysis support the documentary reconstruction. The windstorm reached hurricane-force over the Czech Lands between 0900 and 1600 of local mean time and was related to the passage of a cold front. The high winds, achieving hurricane-force, led to loss of human lives and many other casualties, as well as to severe damage to buildings and other structures. In particular, the documentary sources facilitate a quantitative reconstruction of the massive windthrow that occurred in forested areas across the Czech Lands, where the windstorm damaged at least 8 million cubic metres of timber, which is arguably more than has been lost to any single similar event since. Reasons for the extreme windthrow, apart from wind forces and destabilization arising from wet and thawed soils, were found in increased vulnerability arising out of old, dense and mono-species conifer stands and inadequate clear-cutting and thinning measures. For the Czech Lands, this event was the most damaging windstorm in the 19th century. Moreover, damage reports are found from the British Isles, the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany to Austria, the Czech Lands and Poland, documenting its disastrous effects on a (sub-)continental scale.
Links
| GA13-19831S, research and development project |
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| GA15-11805S, research and development project |
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