The extreme drought episode of August 2011-May 2012 in the Czech Republic

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 3335-3352

  Zahradníček, Pavel ^a,b   Trnka, Miroslav ^a,c   Brázdil, Rudolf ^a,d   Možný, Martin ^b,c   Štěpánek, Petr ^a,b   Hlavinka, Petr ^a,c   Žalud, Zdeněk ^a,c   Malý, Antonín ^b   Semerádová, Daniela ^a   Dobrovolný, Petr ^a,d   Dubrovský, Martin ^a,e   Řezníčková, Ladislava ^a,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

^b CZECH HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

^c MENDEL UNIVERSITY IN BRNO   (Czech Republic)

^d MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^e INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Agricultural drought; Central Europe; Czech Republic; Drought; Drought impact; Fire; Future climate; Hydrological drought; Meteorological drought

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; CROPS; DEFORESTATION; FIRES;

AGRICULTURAL DROUGHT; CENTRAL EUROPE; CZECH REPUBLIC; FUTURE CLIMATE; HYDROLOGICAL DROUGHTS; METEOROLOGICAL DROUGHT;

DROUGHT;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; CLIMATE EFFECT; CROP; DROUGHT; EXTREME EVENT; FOREST FIRE; FUTURE PROSPECT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY);

BOHEMIA; CZECH REPUBLIC; MORAVIA;

EID: 84940893182     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.4211     Document Type: Article

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