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Hydro-meteorological extreme events in the 18th century in Portugal |
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Marcelo Fragoso, Maria João Alcoforado, João Paulo Taborda |
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EGU General Assembly 2013
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Artikel
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Englisch
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PDF |
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In: GRA - Volume 15 (2013) |
| Datensatznummer |
250079136
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| Zusammenfassung |
| The present work is carried out in the frame of the KLIMHIST PROJECT (“Reconstruction
and model simulations of past climate in Portugal using documentary and early instrumental
sources, 17th-19th century)”, and is devoted to the study of hydro-meteorological
extreme events during the last 350 years, in order to understand how they have
changed in time and compare them with current analogues. More specifically, the
results selected to this presentation will focus on some hydro-meteorological extreme
events of the 18th century, like severe droughts, heavy precipitation episodes and
windstorms. One of the most noteworthy events was the winterstorm Bárbara (3rd to
6th December 1739), already studied in prior investigations (Taborda et al, 2004;
Pfister et al, 2010), a devastating storm with strong impacts in Portugal caused by
violent winds and heavy rainfall. Several other extreme events were detected by
searching different documentary archives, including individual, administrative and
ecclesiastic sources. Moreover, a more detailed insight to the 1783-1787 period will be
made with regard the Lisbon region, taking into consideration the availability of
information for daily meteorological observations as well as documentary evidences, like
descriptions from Gazeta de Lisboa, the periodic with more continuous publication in the
18thcentury.
Key-words: Instrumental data, Documentary data, Extreme events, Klimhist Project,
Portugal
References
Pfister, C., Garnier, E., Alcoforado, M.J., Wheeler, D. Luterbacher, J. Nunes, M.F.,
Taborda, J.P. (2010) The meteorological framework and the cultural memory of three
severe winter-storms in early eighteenth-century Europe, Climatic Change, 101, 1-2,
281-310
Taborda, JP; Alcoforado, MJ and Garcia, JC (2004) O Clima do Sul de Portugal no
Séc.XVIII, Centro de Estudos Geográficos, Área de de Investigação de Geo-Ecologia,
relatório no 2 |
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