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Articles | Volume 21, issue 11
Articles | Volume 21, issue 11
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-1961-2025
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https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-1961-2025
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Articles | Volume 21, issue 11
Research article
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05 Nov 2025
Research article |  | 05 Nov 2025

The potential of taxation records as a data source for historical climatology

Rudolf Brázdil, Jan Lhoták, Kateřina Chromá, and Laurent Litzenburger

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The tax relief data connected with weather damage to farmers' yields from the Prácheň Region (southwestern Bohemia) in the period 1655–1827 were used to identify frequency, severity and impacts of damaging weather events presented in the context of other documentary data. Tax relief data used represent the very rarely used source of administrative records for historical-climatological research.
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