Project information
Reconstruction of the climate of the last millenium in the czech lands
- Project Identification
- GA205/98/1542
- Project Period
- 1/1998 - 1/2000
- Investor / Pogramme / Project type
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Czech Science Foundation
- Standard Projects
- MU Faculty or unit
- Faculty of Science
- Cooperating Organization
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Institute of Botany of the ASCR, v. v. i.
- Responsible person Ing. Josef Kyncl
- Responsible person PhDr. Oldřich Kotyza
On the basis sof the analysis sof the historical material of tree-rings from selected parts of the Czech Lands to carry out the reconstruction of air temperature and precipitation of the last millennium. To collect and analyze climatic data from written narrative and economic sources and further proxy data. For the period of instrumental observations compile long homogeneous series of air temperature and precipitation and extreme meteorological phenomena. To confront different sources of climatic data a nd to compile a synthesis of climate fluctuation in the Czech Lands for the last thousand years oriented on air temperature, precipitation and extreme meteorological phemonena.
Publications
Total number of publications: 15
2000
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Historical climatology: definition, data, methods, results
Geografický časopis, year: 2000, volume: 52, edition: 2
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History of Weather and Climate in the Czech Lands IV. Utilisation of Economic Sources for the Study of Climate Fluctuation in the Louny Region in the Fifteenth-Seventeenth Centuries
Year: 2000, edition: Vyd. 1, number of pages: 350 s.
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Chronology of strong wind events in the Czech lands during the 16th-19th centuries
Prace Geograficzne, year: 2000
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The effect of weather factors on fluctuations of grain prices in the Czech Lands in the 16th-18th centuries
Year: 2000
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Utilisation of the Louny economic sources for the reconstruction of winter temperature patterns in 1518-1621
Year: 2000