J 2010

The variability of European floods since AD 1500

GLASER, Ruediger, Dirk RIEMANN, Johannes SCHONBEIN, Mariano BARRIEANDOS, Rudolf BRÁZDIL et. al.

Základní údaje

Originální název

The variability of European floods since AD 1500

Autoři

GLASER, Ruediger (276 Německo), Dirk RIEMANN (276 Německo), Johannes SCHONBEIN (276 Německo), Mariano BARRIEANDOS (724 Španělsko), Rudolf BRÁZDIL (203 Česká republika, domácí), Chiara BERTOLIN (380 Itálie), Dario CAMUFFO (380 Itálie), Mathias DEUTSCH (276 Německo), Petr DOBROVOLNÝ (203 Česká republika, domácí), Aryan VAN ENGELEN (528 Nizozemské království), Silvia ENZI (380 Itálie), Monika BĚLÍNOVÁ (203 Česká republika, domácí), Sebastian KOENIG (276 Německo), Oldřich KOTYZA (203 Česká republika), Danuta LIMANOWKA (616 Polsko, garant), Jarmila BURIANOVÁ (203 Česká republika, domácí), Mirca SGHEDONI (380 Itálie), Brice MARTIN (276 Německo) a Iso HIMMELSBACH (276 Německo)

Vydání

Climatic Change, Dordrecht-Boston-London, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2010, 0165-0009

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

10500 1.5. Earth and related environmental sciences

Stát vydavatele

Velká Británie a Severní Irsko

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

Impakt faktor

Impact factor: 3.016

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14310/10:00044867

Organizační jednotka

Přírodovědecká fakulta

UT WoS

000278401200009

Klíčová slova anglicky

Historical Floods; Documentary Evidence; Reconstruction; Europe

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno
Změněno: 25. 5. 2020 14:08, Mgr. Marie Šípková, DiS.

Anotace

V originále

The paper presents a qualitative and quantitative analysis of flood variability and forcing of major European rivers since AD 1500. We compile and investigate flood reconstructions which are based on documentary evidence for twelve Central European rivers and for eight Mediterranean rivers. Flood variability and underlying climatological causes are reconstructed by using hermeneutic approaches including critical source analysis and by applying a semi-quantitative classification scheme. The paper describes the driving climatic causes, seasonality and variability of observed flood events within the different river catchments covering the European mainland. Historical flood data are presented and recent research in the field of historical flood reconstructions is highlighted. Additionally, the character of the different flood series is discussed. A comparison of the historical flood seasonality in relation to modern distribution is given and aspects of the spatial coherence are presented. The comparative analysis points to the fact that the number of flood events is predominately triggered by regional climatic forcing, with at most only minor influence on neighbouring catchments. The only exceptions are extreme, supra-regional climatic events and conditions such as anomalous cold winters, similar to that of 1784, which affected large parts of Europe and triggered flood events in several catchments as a result of ice-break at the beginning of the annual thaw. Four periods of increased occurrence of flooding, mostly affecting Central European Rivers, have been identified; 1540-1600, 1640-1700, 1730-1790, 1790-1840. The reconstruction, compilation and analysis of European-wide flood data over the last five centuries reveal the complexity of the underlying climatological causes and the high variability of flood events in temporal and spatial dimension.