Extreme droughts and human responses to them: the Czech Lands in the pre-instrumental period

Brázdil, Rudolf; Dobrovolný, Petr; Trnka, Miroslav; Řezníčková, Ladislava; Dolák, Lukáš; Kotyza, Oldřich

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-15-1-2019

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07 Jan 2019

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| 07 Jan 2019

Extreme droughts and human responses to them: the Czech Lands in the pre-instrumental period

Rudolf Brázdil, Petr Dobrovolný, Miroslav Trnka, Ladislava Řezníčková, Lukáš Dolák, and Oldřich Kotyza

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Preprint (discussion started on 16 Oct 2018)

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Review of Brazdil et al. manuscript "Extreme droughts and human responses to them: the Czech Lands in the pre-instrumental period"', David Nash, 28 Oct 2018
- AC1: 'RC1 - responses', Rudolf Brazdil, 08 Dec 2018
RC2: 'Chapter 4: Reliability of the sources', Christian Rohr, 13 Nov 2018
- AC2: 'RC2 - response', Rudolf Brazdil, 08 Dec 2018
RC3: 'Additional (enlarged) comment by RC2 on Brázdil, R. et al: Extreme droughts and human responses to them: the Czech Lands in the pre-instrumental period', Christian Rohr, 14 Nov 2018
- AC3: 'RC3 - responses', Rudolf Brazdil, 08 Dec 2018
  - RC4: 'Short comment to the authors's response to RC3', Christian Rohr, 09 Dec 2018
    - AC4: 'RC4 response', Rudolf Brazdil, 12 Dec 2018

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Publish as is (12 Dec 2018) by Andrea Kiss

Short summary

The paper analyses extreme droughts of the pre-instrumental period (1501–1803) over the territory of the recent Czech Republic. In total, 16 droughts were selected for spring, summer and autumn each and 14 droughts for summer half-year (Apr–Sep). They are characterized by very low values of drought indices, high temperatures, low precipitation and by the influence of high-pressure situations. Selected extreme droughts are described in more detail. Effect of droughts on grain prices are studied.