caa a22 4500 445800879 CHVBK 20180317145140.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110801xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s00704-010-0381-9 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s00704-010-0381-9 Five centuries of Southern Moravian drought variations revealed from living and historic tree rings [Elektronische Daten] [Ulf Büntgen, Rudolf Brázdil, Petr Dobrovolný, Mirek Trnka, Tomáš Kyncl] Past, present, and projected fluctuations of the hydrological cycle, associated to anthropogenic climate change, describe a pending challenge for natural ecosystems and human civilizations. Here, we compile and analyze long meteorological records from Brno, Czech Republic and nearby tree-ring measurements of living and historic firs from Southern Moravia. This unique paleoclimatic compilation together with innovative reconstruction methods and error estimates allows regional-scale May-June drought variability to be estimated back to ad 1500. Driest and wettest conditions occurred in 1653 and 1713, respectively. The ten wettest decades are evenly distributed throughout time, whereas the driest episodes occurred in the seventeenth century and from the 1840s onward. Discussion emphasizes agreement between the new reconstruction and documentary evidence, and stresses possible sources of reconstruction uncertainty including station inhomogeneity, limited frequency preservation, reduced climate sensitivity, and large-scale constraints. Springer-Verlag, 2010 Büntgen Ulf Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, 8903, Birmensdorf, Switzerland aut Brázdil Rudolf Institute of Geography, Masaryk University, 61137, Brno, Czech Republic aut Dobrovolný Petr Institute of Geography, Masaryk University, 61137, Brno, Czech Republic aut Trnka Mirek Institute of Agrosystems and Bioclimatology, Mendel University, 61300, Brno, Czech Republic aut Kyncl Tomáš Moravian Dendro-Labor, 61600, Brno, Czech Republic aut Theoretical and Applied Climatology Springer Vienna 105/1-2(2011-08-01), 167-180 0177-798X 105:1-2<167 2011 105 704 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-010-0381-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-010-0381-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Büntgen Ulf Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, 8903, Birmensdorf, Switzerland aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Brázdil Rudolf Institute of Geography, Masaryk University, 61137, Brno, Czech Republic aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Dobrovolný Petr Institute of Geography, Masaryk University, 61137, Brno, Czech Republic aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Trnka Mirek Institute of Agrosystems and Bioclimatology, Mendel University, 61300, Brno, Czech Republic aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Kyncl Tomáš Moravian Dendro-Labor, 61600, Brno, Czech Republic aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Theoretical and Applied Climatology Springer Vienna 105/1-2(2011-08-01), 167-180 0177-798X 105:1-2<167 2011 105 704 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer