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28 Sep 2023
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| 28 Sep 2023
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Weather and climate and their human impacts and responses during the Thirty Years' War in central Europe
Rudolf Brázdil
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Institute of Geography, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
Global Change Research Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno,
Czech Republic
Petr Dobrovolný
Institute of Geography, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
Global Change Research Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno,
Czech Republic
Christian Pfister
Oeschger Centre for Climatic Change Research, Bern, Switzerland
Katrin Kleemann
German Maritime Museum – Leibniz Institute for Maritime History,
Bremerhaven, Germany
Kateřina Chromá
Global Change Research Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno,
Czech Republic
Péter Szabó
Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, Průhonice, Czech Republic
Department of Environmental Studies, Faculty of Social Studies,
Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
Piotr Olinski
Institute of History and Archival Sciences, Climate Change Research
Unit, University of Toruń, Toruń, Poland
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Short summary
The Thirty Years' War (from 1618 to 1648 CE), an armed military conflict in Europe, brought extensive devastation to Europe. The paper analyses annual and seasonal temperature, precipitation, and drought patterns, as well as severe weather extremes, based particularly on documentary data, during this event in central Europe to demonstrate their broad impacts on human society and human responses in coincidence with weather and climate during this period of hardship.
The Thirty Years' War (from 1618 to 1648 CE), an armed military conflict in Europe, brought...
