2019
DOI: 10.5194/cp-15-1647-2019
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Rogation ceremonies: a key to understanding past drought variability in northeastern Spain since 1650

Abstract: Abstract. In the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula, few studies have reconstructed drought occurrence and variability for the pre-instrumental period using documentary evidence and natural proxies. In this study, we compiled a unique dataset of rogation ceremonies – religious acts asking God for rain – from 13 cities in the northeast of Spain and investigated the annual drought variability from 1650 to 1899 CE. Three regionally different coherent areas (Mediterranean, Ebro Valley, and Mountain) were detected.… Show more

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“…The reports are a brief summary in which the editors give information for each province. Therefore, the information provided is basically a spatial In historical climatology, there are various methods to reconstruct climatic conditions by analysing documentary sources [14][15][16][17][18][19]. In our case, given the nature of the data source under study (a printed periodical), and its weekly resolution in which not only extreme phenomena are described, the most appropriate method is to analyse the weather descriptors used in the texts.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The reports are a brief summary in which the editors give information for each province. Therefore, the information provided is basically a spatial In historical climatology, there are various methods to reconstruct climatic conditions by analysing documentary sources [14][15][16][17][18][19]. In our case, given the nature of the data source under study (a printed periodical), and its weekly resolution in which not only extreme phenomena are described, the most appropriate method is to analyse the weather descriptors used in the texts.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Munzar, 2004;Wetter et al, 2014;Kiss and Nikolić, 2015;Roggenkamp and Herget, 2015;Brázdil et al, 2016bBrázdil et al, , 2019aKiss, 2017Bauch et al, 2020;Camenisch et al, 2020) and for creation of a range of long-term drought chronologies (e.g. Martín-Vide and Barriendos Vallvé, 1995;Piervitali and Colacino, 2001;Domínguez-Castro et al, 2008;Diodato and Bellocchi, 2011;Brázdil et al, 2013a;Garnier, 2019;Tejedor et al, 2019;Przybylak et al, 2020). It is even possible, by means of documentary-based temperature and precipitation reconstructions, to calculate long-term series of drought indices overlapping the pre-instrumental and instrumental periods (Brázdil et al, 2016a).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Due to the rogations can be found where Catholic religion was established and historical manuscripts were preserved, rogations can be found in different parts of the world as Europe (mainly), America, and old colonies (as Philippines) [15][16][17][18][19][20][21]. Pro-pluvia rogations have been studied, among others, to reconstruct periods of drought in the past [17,19,20,[22][23][24][25][26][27]; to reconstruct seasonal and annual rainfall in the Iberian Peninsula (hereafter IP) from 16th century to 20th century [28]; and, to identify climate extremes [16,29]. Also, Vicente-Serrano & Cuadrat [30] used pro-pluvia and pro-serenitate rogations celebrated in Zaragoza (Spain) as a proxy of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) index.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%