Documentary evidence of urban droughts  and their impact in the eastern Netherlands:  the cases of Deventer and Zutphen, 1500–1795

Moerman, Dániel Johannes

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-1721-2024

Articles | Volume 20, issue 8

https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-1721-2024

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https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-1721-2024

© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 20, issue 8

Research article

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02 Aug 2024

Research article |

| 02 Aug 2024

Documentary evidence of urban droughts and their impact in the eastern Netherlands: the cases of Deventer and Zutphen, 1500–1795

Dániel Johannes Moerman

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-1721-2024-supplement

Data sets

Table S1: Overview of drought events from Deventer (D) and Zutphen (Z), 1500-1795 Dániel Johannes Moerman https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13133349

Winter and Summer Temperatures for the Netherlands, 751-2000 [data set] A. F. V. Van Engelen, et al. https://cdn.knmi.nl/knmi/map/page/klimatologie/gegevens/daggegevens/antieke_wrn/nederland_wi_zo.zip

Dataset_Drought_HSDS_Dev_Zut_Moerman_2022 Dániel Johannes Moerman https://doi.org/10.17026/dans-x3p-camy

Short summary

This article provides a first look into the impact of drought in two cities in the eastern Netherlands from 1500 to 1795 on the basis of municipal records. It concludes that the impact of drought was sometimes similar but also different for both cities when focusing on specific aspects, such as water shortage and navigation. This strengthens the view that the impact of droughts could differ highly on a local level, which necessitates more emphasis on regional and local drought reconstructions.