TORBENSON, Max C. A., Ulf BÜNTGEN, Jan ESPER, Otmar URBAN, Jan BALEK, Frederick REINIG, Paul J. KRUSIC, Edurne Martinez DEL CASTILLO, Rudolf BRÁZDIL, Daniela SEMERÁDOVÁ, Petr ŠTĚPÁNEK, Natálie PERNICOVÁ, Tomáš KOLÁŘ, Michal RYBNÍČEK, Eva KOŇASOVÁ, Juliana ARBELAEZ and Miroslav TRNKA. Central European Agroclimate over the Past 2000 Years. Journal of Climate. American Meteorological Society, 2023, vol. 36, No 13, p. 4429-4441. ISSN 0894-8755. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-22-0831.1.
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Original name Central European Agroclimate over the Past 2000 Years
Authors TORBENSON, Max C. A. (guarantor), Ulf BÜNTGEN (276 Germany, belonging to the institution), Jan ESPER, Otmar URBAN, Jan BALEK, Frederick REINIG, Paul J. KRUSIC, Edurne Martinez DEL CASTILLO, Rudolf BRÁZDIL (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Daniela SEMERÁDOVÁ, Petr ŠTĚPÁNEK, Natálie PERNICOVÁ, Tomáš KOLÁŘ, Michal RYBNÍČEK, Eva KOŇASOVÁ, Juliana ARBELAEZ and Miroslav TRNKA.
Edition Journal of Climate, American Meteorological Society, 2023, 0894-8755.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 10510 Climatic research
Country of publisher United States of America
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
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Impact factor Impact factor: 4.900 in 2022
RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14310/23:00130992
Organization unit Faculty of Science
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-22-0831.1
UT WoS 001010967400001
Keywords in English Europe; Paleoclimate; Tree rings; Interannual variability; Seasonal effects
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Tags International impact, Reviewed
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Abstract
Central Europe has experienced a sequence of unprecedented summer droughts since 2015, which had considerable effects on the functioning and productivity of natural and agricultural systems. Placing these recent extremes in a long-term context of natural climate variability is, however, constrained by the limited length of observational records. Here, we use tree-ring stable oxygen and carbon isotopes to develop annually resolved reconstructions of growing season temperature and summer moisture variability for central Europe during the past 2000 years. Both records are independently interpolated across the southern Czech Republic and northeastern Austria to produce explicit estimates of the optimum agroclimatic zones, based on modern references of climatic forcing. Historical documentation of agricultural productivity and climate variability since 1090 CE provides strong quantitative verification of our new reconstructions. Our isotope records not only contain clear expressions of the medieval (920–1000 CE) and Renaissance (early sixteenth century) droughts, but also the relative influence of temperature and moisture on hydroclimatic conditions during the first millennium (including previously reported pluvials during the early third, fifth, and seventh centuries of the Common Era). We conclude that Czech agricultural production has experienced significant extremes over the past 2000 years, which includes periods for which there are no modern analogs.
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