Reconstructing The Trajectory of The August 1680 Hurricane From Contemporary Records

Wheeler, Dennis; García‐Herrera, Ricardo; Vaquero, J. M.; Chenoweth, Michael; Mock, Cary J.

doi:10.1175/2009bams2649.1

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“…Catchpole and Faurer (1983) analyzed freezing and ice breaking dates in the Hudson Bay. They have also been very useful in the analysis of storms and hurricanes (Mock et al, 2010;Vaquero et al, 2008;Wheeler et al, 2009). Chenoweth (2001) used them to estimate the impact of two major volcanic eruptions in the first half of the 19 th century.…”

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Documentary sources to investigate multidecadal variability of droughts

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García‐Herrera

2016

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Documentary sources to investigate multidecadal variability of droughts

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García‐Herrera

2016

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“…One essential project is to extend HURDAT back before 1851 to earlier in the nineteenth, eighteenth, and even seventeenth centuries. Such efforts are under way and have begun to yield important results (e.g., Chenoweth 2007;Mock 2008;Wheeler et al 2009). This may lead to a complete dataset of U.S. landfalling hurricanes for the Atlantic coast from Georgia to New England, as well as for portions of the Caribbean back to at least 1800, given the relatively high density of population extending that far into the past.…”

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A Reanalysis of the 1911–20 Atlantic Hurricane Database

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A reanalysis of the Atlantic basin tropical storm and hurricane database (''best track'') for the period from 1921 to 1930 has been completed. This reassessment of the main archive for tropical cyclones of the North Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, and Gulf of Mexico was necessary to correct systematic biases and random errors in the data as well as to search for previously unrecognized systems. The methodology for the reanalysis process for revising the track and intensity of tropical cyclone data has been detailed in a previous paper on the reanalysis. The 1921-30 dataset now includes several new tropical cyclones, excludes one system previously considered a tropical storm, makes generally large alterations in the intensity estimates of most tropical cyclones (both toward stronger and weaker intensities), and typically adjusts existing tracks with minor corrections. Average uncertainty in intensity and track values is estimated for both open-ocean conditions as well as landfalling systems. Highlights are given for changes to the more significant hurricanes to impact the United States, Central America, and the Caribbean for this decade.

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“…Wheeler et al . () reconstructed from contemporary records the trajectory of a hurricane in 1680 that made an extratropical transition to the North Atlantic. Kington () described a windstorm that occurred on 1–2 October 1697 and Wheeler () a great storm in November 1703 in the British Isles.…”

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“…For example, Pfeifer (2015) addressed a severe storm on 19 December 1660 over northern Holland by means of two poems written after it. Wheeler et al (2009) reconstructed from contemporary records the trajectory of a hurricane in 1680 that made an extratropical transition to the North Atlantic. Kington (1998) described a windstorm that occurred on 1-2 October 1697 and Wheeler (2003) a great storm in November 1703 in the British Isles.…”

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The extraordinary windstorm of 7 December 1868 in the Czech Lands and its central European context

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An extreme windstorm that took place on 7 December 1868 in the Czech Lands is analysed by means of rich documentary evidence from narrative sources, damage records, forestry journals and newspapers. Early meteorological measurements and a numerical atmospheric reanalysis support the documentary reconstruction. The windstorm reached hurricane‐force over the Czech Lands between 0900 and 1600 of local mean time and was related to the passage of a cold front. The high winds, achieving hurricane‐force, led to loss of human lives and many other casualties, as well as to severe damage to buildings and other structures. In particular, the documentary sources facilitate a quantitative reconstruction of the massive windthrow that occurred in forested areas across the Czech Lands, where the windstorm damaged at least 8 million m3 of timber, which is arguably more than has been lost to any single similar event since. Reasons for the extreme windthrow, apart from wind forces and destabilization arising from wet and thawed soils, were found in increased vulnerability arising out of old, dense and mono‐species conifer stands and inadequate clear‐cutting and thinning measures. For the Czech Lands, this event was the most damaging windstorm in the 19th century. Moreover, damage reports are found from the British Isles, the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany to Austria, the Czech Lands and Poland, documenting its disastrous effects on a (sub‐)continental scale.

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Reconstructing The Trajectory of The August 1680 Hurricane From Contemporary Records

Abstract: With historic data, including some of the earliest barometer observations in the region and mariners' logbooks, it is possible to track the intensity and path of a storm more than three centuries ago.

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Documentary sources to investigate multidecadal variability of droughts

Documentary sources to investigate multidecadal variability of droughts

A Reanalysis of the 1911–20 Atlantic Hurricane Database

The extraordinary windstorm of 7 December 1868 in the Czech Lands and its central European context

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