Climate for the 21st century is expected to be considerably different from the present and
recent past. Industrialization growth combined with the increasing CO2 concentration in the …

Floods are one of the leading natural hazards all over the world (see eg IPCC report 2014):
a natural hazard primarily dependent on climate variability and changes. In the Carpathian …

In humid climate zones, like Central Europe, past soil erosion and gullying are strongly
connected with agricultural expansion, and extreme soil erosion events often play an …

The repeated occurrence of exceptional floods within a few years, such as the Rhine floods
in 1993 and 1995 and the Elbe and Danube floods in 2002 and 2013, suggests that floods …

Globally, few precipitation records extend to the 18th century. The England Wales
Precipitation (EWP) series is a notable exception with continuous monthly records from …

Analyses of historical patterns of rainfall variability are essential for understanding long-term
changes in precipitation timing and distribution. Focussing on former Natal and Zululand …

Local to regional climate anomalies are to a large extent determined by the state of the
atmospheric circulation. The knowledge of large-scale sea level pressure (SLP) variations in …

This paper addresses droughts in the Czech Lands in the 1090–2012 AD period, basing its
findings on documentary evidence and instrumental records. Various documentary sources …

In this work, a reconstruction of seasonal and annual rainfall characteristics in the Iberian
Peninsula from the 16th century to the present is described. This reconstruction is based on …

In part 1 of this study, Fenby and Gergis (Fenby C, Gergis J. 2012. A rainfall history of south-
eastern Australia Part 1: comparing evidence from documentary and palaeoclimate records …