Article ID: CBB001421391

Storminess in the Low Countries, 1390--1725 (2013)

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Kraker, Adriaan de (Author)


Environment and History
Volume: 19, no. 2
Issue: 2
Pages: 149-171


Publication Date: 2013
Edition Details: Article in a special issue on Flooding
Language: English

This paper looks into the historic storms of coastal Flanders and the south-western part of the Netherlands between 1390 and 1725. High quality information about these weather extremes has been retrieved from administrative documents concerning the annual maintenance of sea walls. Because the period under study deals with non-instrumental storm data, a method has been applied to assess this information, from which a picture emerges of annual storminess and of changing storminess throughout this long time period. Thus, periods of increasing and declining storm frequency can be distinguished. These fluctuations are compared with the storminess of the present period and some consideration is also given to possible links between historic storm frequency and temperature. Finally, attention is paid to the second decade of the eighteenth century, with its unusually high number of gales, and options for further research are explored.

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Authors & Contributors
Vergani, Raffaello
Pere Verdés-Pijuan
Stronks, Els
Mola, Luca
Manuel Sánchez-Martínez
Skabelund, Aaron
Concepts
Hydraulic engineering
Water
Water resource management
Environment
Natural resource management
Earth sciences
Time Periods
16th century
15th century
14th century
18th century
17th century
Renaissance
Places
Netherlands
Italy
North Sea
Danube river
England
United States
Institutions
Katholieke Universiteit Brabant (Netherlands)
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