The second most disastrous windstorm of the nineteenth century
in the Czech Lands, 26-27 October 1870

J 2018

The second most disastrous windstorm of the nineteenth century in the Czech Lands, 26-27 October 1870

BRÁZDIL, Rudolf, Peter STUCKI, Péter SZABÓ, Petr DOBROVOLNÝ, Ladislava ŘEZNÍČKOVÁ et. al.

Basic information

Original name

The second most disastrous windstorm of the nineteenth century in the Czech Lands, 26-27 October 1870

Authors

BRÁZDIL, Rudolf (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Peter STUCKI (756 Switzerland), Péter SZABÓ (203 Czech Republic), 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, belonging to the institution), Lukáš DOLÁK (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Pavel ZAHRADNÍČEK (203 Czech Republic) and Silvie SUCHÁNKOVÁ (203 Czech Republic)

Edition

Theoretical and Applied Climatology, Springer Vienna, 2018, 0177-798X

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

10509 Meteorology and atmospheric sciences

Country of publisher

Austria

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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Impact factor

Impact factor: 2.720

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14310/18:00100711

Organization unit

Faculty of Science

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00704-017-2146-1

UT WoS

000430539000040

Keywords in English

windstorm of 26/27 October 1870; documentary data; Twentieth Century Reanalysis; meteorological situation; damage; forestry; Czech Lands; central Europe

Změněno: 23/4/2024 09:48, Mgr. Michal Petr

Abstract

V originále

One of the most disastrous windstorms to take place over the Czech Lands occurred on the night of 26/27 October 1870. It is here analysed through the use of documentary data (narrative sources, newspapers, forestry journals, printed documents) and systematic meteorological observations (wind force and direction). Combining this evidence with information derived from an atmospheric reanalysis dataset allows the severity of the windstorm to be attributed to the passage of a cold front, a frontal system associated with a secondary low in a typically storm-prone synoptic environment. Its social impacts were characterised by great material damage, particularly to buildings and other structures, trees and forests. These are recorded not only for 174 places around the countryside and lesser settlements of the Czech Lands, but also for 28 city quarters in Prague, the capital city. The windstorm occurred in the night hours, so only a few people were killed or injured. However, the 1870 windstorm totally devastated many forested areas of the Šumava Mts. in south-west Bohemia. Damage to forests in other parts of the Czech Lands was also severe, but difficult to quantify exactly for lack of high-resolution spatial data. Because this windstorm followed only shortly upon a previous similarly disastrous wind event on 7 December 1868, the enormous quantity of windthrown wood in forests, which simply could not be fast-processed, contributed significantly to a subsequent bark-beetle infestation calamity in the 1870s. In certain forest stands, imprints of these aggregate effects appear to this day. The central-European scale of 1870 windstorm is also well documented by meteorological and documentary data from Germany, Austria and Slovakia.

Links

GA15-11805S, research and development project

Name: Vichřice v českých zemích za posledních 500 let

Investor: Czech Science Foundation

Citovat

BRÁZDIL, Rudolf, Peter STUCKI, Péter SZABÓ, Petr DOBROVOLNÝ, Ladislava ŘEZNÍČKOVÁ, Oldřich KOTYZA, Hubert VALÁŠEK, Lukáš DOLÁK, Pavel ZAHRADNÍČEK and Silvie SUCHÁNKOVÁ. The second most disastrous windstorm of the nineteenth century in the Czech Lands, 26-27 October 1870. Theoretical and Applied Climatology. Springer Vienna, 2018, vol. 132, 3-4, p. 1201-1216. ISSN 0177-798X. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00704-017-2146-1.

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BRÁZDIL, Rudolf, Peter STUCKI, Péter SZABÓ, Petr DOBROVOLNÝ, Ladislava ŘEZNÍČKOVÁ, Oldřich KOTYZA, Hubert VALÁŠEK, Lukáš DOLÁK, Pavel ZAHRADNÍČEK and Silvie SUCHÁNKOVÁ. The second most disastrous windstorm of the nineteenth century in the Czech Lands, 26-27 October 1870. \textit{Theoretical and Applied Climatology}. Springer Vienna, 2018, vol.~132, 3-4, p.~1201-1216. ISSN~0177-798X. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00704-017-2146-1.

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