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Articles | Volume 21, issue 2
Articles | Volume 21, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-547-2025
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https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-547-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 21, issue 2
Research article
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25 Feb 2025
Research article |  | 25 Feb 2025

Public granaries as a source of proxy data on grain harvests and weather extremes for historical climatology

Rudolf Brázdil, Jan Lhoták, Kateřina Chromá, Dominik Collet, Petr Dobrovolný, and Heli Huhtamaa

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Public granaries served as key infrastructure to improve food security in agrarian societies. Granary data from 15 domains at the Sušice region (southwestern Bohemia) in the period 1789–1849 CE are used here to identify years with bad and good grain harvests, which have been further analysed using documentary data and climatic reconstructions. The data used represent a new source of proxy data for historical–climatological research.
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