Potential of Documentary Evidence to Study Fatalities of
Hydrological and Meteorological Events in the Czech Republic

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Potential of Documentary Evidence to Study Fatalities of Hydrological and Meteorological Events in the Czech Republic

BRÁZDIL, Rudolf; Kateřina CHROMÁ; Jan ŘEHOŘ; Pavel ZAHRADNÍČEK; Lukáš DOLÁK et al.

Základní údaje

Originální název

Potential of Documentary Evidence to Study Fatalities of Hydrological and Meteorological Events in the Czech Republic

Autoři

BRÁZDIL, Rudolf; Kateřina CHROMÁ; Jan ŘEHOŘ; Pavel ZAHRADNÍČEK; Lukáš DOLÁK; Ladislava ŘEZNÍČKOVÁ a Petr DOBROVOLNÝ

Vydání

Water, BASEL, MDPI, 2019, 2073-4441

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

10500 1.5. Earth and related environmental sciences

Stát vydavatele

Švýcarsko

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

Full Text

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Impact factor: 2.544

Označené pro přenos do RIV

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Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14310/19:00110826

Organizační jednotka

Přírodovědecká fakulta

Klíčová slova anglicky

fatality; fatality features; documentary data; hydrological and meteorological event; Czech Republic

Štítky

rivok

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 25. 3. 2020 11:13, Mgr. Marie Novosadová Šípková, DiS.

Anotace

V originále

This paper presents the potential of documentary evidence for enhancing the study of fatalities taking place in the course of hydrological and meteorological events (HMEs). Chronicles, “books of memory”, weather diaries, newspapers (media), parliamentary proposals, epigraphic evidence, systematic meteorological/hydrological observations, and professional papers provide a broad base for gathering such information in the Czech Republic, especially since 1901. The spatiotemporal variability of 269 fatalities in the Czech Republic arising out of 103 HMEs (flood, flash flood, windstorm, convective storm, lightning, frost, snow/glaze-ice calamity, heat, and other events) in the 1981–2018 period is presented, with particular attention to closer characterisation of fatalities (gender, age, cause of death, place, type of death, and behaviour). Examples of three outstanding events with the highest numbers of fatalities (severe frosts in the extremely cold winter of 1928/1929, a flash flood on 9 June 1970, and a rain flood in July 1997) are described in detail. Discussion of results includes the problem of data uncertainty, factors influencing the numbers of fatalities, and the broader context. Since floods are responsible for the highest proportion of HME-related deaths, places with fatalities are located mainly around rivers and drowning appears as the main cause of death. In the further classification of fatalities, males and adults clearly prevail, while indirect victims and hazardous behaviour are strongly represented.

Návaznosti

MUNI/A/1576/2018, interní kód MU

Název: Komplexní výzkum geografického prostředí planety Země

Investor: Masarykova univerzita, Komplexní výzkum geografického prostředí planety Země, DO R. 2020_Kategorie A - Specifický výzkum - Studentské výzkumné projekty

Citovat

BRÁZDIL, Rudolf; Kateřina CHROMÁ; Jan ŘEHOŘ; Pavel ZAHRADNÍČEK; Lukáš DOLÁK; Ladislava ŘEZNÍČKOVÁ a Petr DOBROVOLNÝ. Potential of Documentary Evidence to Study Fatalities of Hydrological and Meteorological Events in the Czech Republic. Water. BASEL: MDPI, 2019, roč. 11, č. 10, s. 1-25. ISSN 2073-4441. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.3390/w11102014.

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BRÁZDIL, Rudolf; Kateřina CHROMÁ; Jan ŘEHOŘ; Pavel ZAHRADNÍČEK; Lukáš DOLÁK; Ladislava ŘEZNÍČKOVÁ a Petr DOBROVOLNÝ. Potential of Documentary Evidence to Study Fatalities of Hydrological and Meteorological Events in the Czech Republic. \textit{Water}. BASEL: MDPI, 2019, roč.~11, č.~10, s.~1-25. ISSN~2073-4441. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.3390/w11102014.

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