A5039959692- Climate variability and models
- Hydrology and Drought Analysis
- Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Cryospheric studies and observations
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing
- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Forest Insect Ecology and Management
- Injury Epidemiology and Prevention
- Entomological Studies and Ecology
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Landslides and related hazards
- Geophysics and Gravity Measurements
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Wind and Air Flow Studies
- Geographic Information Systems Studies
- Urban Heat Island Mitigation
- Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
- Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Biomedical and Engineering Education
- Meat and Animal Product Quality
Masaryk University
2019-2025
Czech Academy of Sciences, Global Change Research Institute
2020-2024
Floods are still a significant threat to people, despite of the considerable developments in forecasting, management, defensive, and rescue works. In near future, climate societal changes as both urbanization flood prone areas individual dangerous behaviors could increase fatalities. This paper analyzes mortality eight countries using 39-year database (1980–2018) named EUFF (EUropean Flood Fatalities), which was built documentary sources. The narratives fatalities were investigated...
This data paper describes the multinational Database of Flood Fatalities from Euro-Mediterranean region FFEM-DB that hosts 2,875 flood fatalities 12 territories (nine which represent entire countries) in Europe and broader Mediterranean 1980 to 2020. The database provides on fatalities' profiles, location, contributing circumstances, allowing researchers risk managers explore demographic, behavioral, situational factors, as well environmental features flood-related mortality. standardized...
Thirty-year periods are treated in climatology as spans with relatively representative and stable climatic patterns, which can be used for calculating climate normals. Annual seasonal series of circulation types were to compare two 30-year sub-periods, 1961–1990 1991–2020, the second one being strongly influenced by recent global warming. This analysis was conducted according objective classification characteristics sunshine duration, temperature, humidity, precipitation, wind speed...
Abstract This paper presents the characteristics of extreme temperatures in Czech Republic, as calculated from homogenized series daily maximum (TMAX) and minimum (TMIN) recorded by 133 climatological stations throughout territory 1961–2020 period. In general, statistically significant increasing linear trends were recognized absolute TMAX, TMIN, numbers summer days, tropical days with nights, heat‐wave, warm‐anomaly days. Significant decreasing appeared frost ice cold‐wave, cold‐anomaly...
To describe droughts at the global scale, many variables can be employed to express their extent, duration, severity or dynamics. identify common features of land drought events (GLDEs) based on soil moisture modelling, we prepared a robust method for delimitation and classification (cataloguing). Estimates root-zone from SoilClim model mesoscale Hydrologic Model (mHM) were calculated over 1980–2023. Using 10th 20th percentile thresholds anomalies, outputs two models merged into...
Drought is one of the most significant natural hazards, impacting ecosystems, water resources, and human livelihoods worldwide. Traditional drought analysis often focuses on specific types or limited geographical regions, leaving a critical gap in understanding global evolution interconnection events across different timescales dimensions.This study aims to address this by employing DBSCAN (Density-Based Spatial Clustering Applications with Noise, e.g., Camalieri Toreti, 2023) algorithm...
Abstract. This paper presents an analysis of fatalities attributable to weather conditions in the Czech Republic during 2000–2019 period. The database deployed contains information extracted from Právo, a leading daily newspaper, and Novinky.cz, its internet equivalent, supplemented by number other documentary sources. is performed for floods, windstorms, convective storms, rain, snow, glaze ice, frost, heat, fog. For each them, associated are investigated terms annual frequencies, trends,...
Abstract This paper analyses temperature and snow patterns of winters (December–February) averaged for the territory Czech Republic during 1961–2021 period their broad environmental impacts responses. Series mean, maximum, minimum, absolute maximum minimum temperatures show significant increasing linear trends, while decreasing trends were detected in numbers frost, ice extremely cold days, duration waves, snowfall sums heights new snow, days with depths ≥1 cm, mean depths. The winter...
: The Thaya river basin provides multiple water uses in the transboundary region of Lower Austria and Southern Moravia. Due to low precipitation (P) reference evapotranspiration (ETo) ratio, is among most sensitive climate change region. main objective understand changes balance variables including actual (ET), P runoff (RO) their drivers for period 1981–2020, 2001–2020 case using remote sensing data. analyses confirm previously reported increasing trends air temperature, ETo, no P. ET...
Abstract Decreasing soil moisture and increasing frequency intensity of drought episodes are among the frequently discussed consequences ongoing global climate change. To address this topic, a water balance model SoilClim forced by reanalysis ERA5-Land was applied on scale to analyze spatiotemporal variability changes in anomalies. The results revealed that relative available (AWR) significantly decreased 31.1% non-glaciated land increased 5.3% such 1981–2021. AWR trends were detected over...
This paper presents the potential of documentary evidence for enhancing study fatalities taking place in course hydrological and meteorological events (HMEs). Chronicles, “books memory”, weather diaries, newspapers (media), parliamentary proposals, epigraphic evidence, systematic meteorological/hydrological observations, professional papers provide a broad base gathering such information Czech Republic, especially since 1901. The spatiotemporal variability 269 Republic arising out 103 HMEs...
Abstract Among the variables that can be employed to characterize agricultural drought, soil drought is of particular importance. This contribution uses gridded soil‐drought values calculated from SoilClim model for 1961–2019 period analyse episodes (based on 10th percentile) in four lowlands, relatively homogeneous regions central Europe provide a longitudinal transect over Europe. These areas are predominantly located at altitudes below 400 m asl and include Bohemia, southern Moravia an...
Abstract. Flash floods, characterized by their sudden onset, extreme discharge, short duration, material damage, and human loss, represent a significant natural hazard. Not well covered standard hydrological observations, flash flood data can primarily be derived from various types of documentary evidence. This evidence served as the main source for creating database Czech Republic 2001 to 2023. enabled detailed analysis different aspects floods. The annual series 233 events, 160 days, 424...
Many studies in Europe have investigated the relationship between climatological variables and circulation patterns expressed by various classifications of types. This study provides new insights based on an analysis precipitation western (Bohemia—BOH) eastern (Moravia Silesia—M&S) parts Czech Republic with respect to subjective classification Hydrometeorological Institute objective flow strength, direction, vorticity during 1961–2020 period. Circulation types are regard their...
Fatalities associated with severe weather, collected from newspapers and other documentary sources, were used to create a corresponding database for the 1961–2020 period Czech Republic. attributed floods, windstorms, convective storms, snow glaze ice, frost, fog, on one hand, vehicle accident fatalities connected rain, snow, inclement other, analysed separately two standard periods, 1961–1990 1991–2020. The number of weather-related between these periods increased in flood, windstorm,...
Abstract. Flash floods, characterized by their sudden onset, extreme discharges, short duration, material damage, and human loss, represent a significant natural hazard. Not well covered standard hydrological observations, flash floods data can primarily be derived from various types of documentary evidence. This evidence served as the main source for creating flood database Czech Republic 2001 to 2023. enabled detailed analysis different aspects floods. The annual series numbers events,...
Abstract Recent climate warming is reflected in the advanced onset of spring phenological phases fruit trees and so-called false springs. This then manifests as an increased risk being damaged by late frosts sensitive growing stage. Based on homogenised temperature series 155 climatological stations divided into two altitudinal groups (below 300 m a.s.l. 301–600 a.s.l.), a analysis selected variables relation to atmospheric circulation over territory Czech Republic during period 1961–2021...
Satisfactory requirements for the spatial resolution of climate and influences soil data in defining starting points, endings, intensities droughts have become matters discussion recent years. The overall inclusiveness modelling tools applied is also frequently discussed. In this light, five model setups (MSs) daily SoilClim water balance were developed tested Czech Republic (CR) 1961–2020 period. These included two versions model, sets data, climatic at different resolutions. MS1–MS4 based...
Abstract. Based on documentary evidence, a chronology of bark beetle outbreaks in the Czech Republic from 1781 to 1963 CE was created, continuing 1964 through 2021 by salvage felling data. The spatial distribution events concentrates border mountains Bohemia and northern parts Moravia Silesia. temporal most important is concentrated 1830s, 1870s, 1940s–1950s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s. Each these notable calamities analysed detail with respect their extent, volume damaged wood,...
The paper investigates weather-related fatalities over the territory of Czech Republic in 100-year period from 1921 to 2020. unique database, created documentary evidence (particularly newspapers), includes, for each deadly event, information about weather fatality itself, and related circumstances. A total 2729 were detected during associated with various categories including frost (38%), convective storms (19%), floods (17%), fog (11%), snow glaze ice (8%), windstorms (5%), other inclement...
Analysis of a long-term temperature variability mountains has been neglected for long time. Here we homogenised and reconstructed four series (1961–2020) selected mountain stations situated above 1000 m representing the area northern Moravian ridges (the Czech Republic) their spatiotemporal was examined. A statistically significant increase 10-year linear trends annual (0.26–0.38), summer/winter half-year seasonal mean temperatures were found at most stations. Summer (JJA) detected as season...