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

IF 3.8 2区地球科学 Q1 GEOSCIENCES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Climate of The Past Pub Date : 2024-08-02 DOI:10.5194/cp-20-1721-2024

Dániel Johannes Moerman

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Abstract. Compared to other parts of Europe, very little is known about pre-instrumental drought periods in the Netherlands. Existing reconstructions are based primarily on data from England, France, and Germany, while more local studies on drought and its impact are still absent. This article thus aims to expand our knowledge of droughts in the Netherlands between 1500 and 1795 by focusing specifically on drought in an urban context to provide a more precise and local idea of the impact and severity of drought. The main case studies are cities in the eastern part of the country, Deventer and Zutphen. Both cities lay in relatively close proximity to each other and share similar geological and hydrological conditions, as well as extensive archives that can be used to gather documentary data regarding historical drought periods. The three primary aims of the article are (1) to examine the potential use of documentary data from the city archives of Deventer and Zutphen for historical drought reconstruction; (2) to establish droughts for both cities on the basis of the year and month or season in which they took place, as well as ranking the droughts according to the impact-based Historical Severity Drought Scale (HSDS); and (3) to compare the data from this analysis with those from other indices. In the end, the article strengthens the need to focus on documentary data from local case studies regarding drought, not only to provide more precise local reconstructions of drought severity compared to regional studies, but also to take into account the long-term effects on urban waterscapes and the provisioning of fresh water.

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Climate of The Past 地学-气象与大气科学

CiteScore

7.40

自引率

14.00%

发文量

120

审稿时长

4-8 weeks

期刊介绍： Climate of the Past (CP) is a not-for-profit international scientific journal dedicated to the publication and discussion of research articles, short communications, and review papers on the climate history of the Earth. CP covers all temporal scales of climate change and variability, from geological time through to multidecadal studies of the last century. Studies focusing mainly on present and future climate are not within scope. The main subject areas are the following: reconstructions of past climate based on instrumental and historical data as well as proxy data from marine and terrestrial (including ice) archives; development and validation of new proxies, improvements of the precision and accuracy of proxy data; theoretical and empirical studies of processes in and feedback mechanisms between all climate system components in relation to past climate change on all space scales and timescales; simulation of past climate and model-based interpretation of palaeoclimate data for a better understanding of present and future climate variability and climate change.