DOI: 10.5194/cp-14-175-2018
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-85042191959
论文题名: 300 years of hydrological records and societal responses to droughts and floods on the Pacific coast of Central America
作者: Guevara-Murua A. ; Williams C.A. ; Hendy E.J. ; Imbach P.
刊名: Climate of the Past
ISSN: 18149324
出版年: 2018
卷: 14, 期: 2 起始页码: 175
结束页码: 191
语种: 英语
Scopus关键词: drought
; El Nino-Southern Oscillation
; flood
; flooding
; hydrological change
; Little Ice Age
; seasonality
; timescale
; Antigua
; Antigua and Barbuda
; Guatemala [Central America]
; Leeward Islands [Lesser Antilles]
; Pacific Coast [Central America]
英文摘要: The management of hydrological extremes and impacts on society is inadequately understood because of the combination of short-term hydrological records, an equally short-term assessment of societal responses and the complex multi-directional relationships between the two over longer timescales. Rainfall seasonality and inter-annual variability on the Pacific coast of Central America is high due to the passage of the Inter Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) and the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO). Here we reconstruct hydrological variability and demonstrate the potential for assessing societal impacts by drawing on documentary sources from the cities of Santiago de Guatemala (now Antigua Guatemala) and Guatemala de la Asunción (now Guatemala City) over the period from 1640 to 1945. City and municipal council meetings provide a rich source of information dating back to the beginning of Spanish colonisation in the 16th century. We use almost continuous sources from 1640ĝ€AD onwards, including gt; 190 volumes of Actas de Cabildo and Actas Municipales (minutes of meetings of the city and municipal councils) held by the Archivo Histórico de la Municipalidad de Antigua Guatemala (AHMAG) and the Archivo General de Centro América (AGCA) in Guatemala City. For this 305-year period (with the exception of a total of 11 years during which the books were either missing or damaged), information relating to Catholic rogation ceremonies and reports of flooding events and crop shortages were used to classify the annual rainy season (May to October) on a five-point scale from very wet to very dry. In total, 12 years of very wet conditions, 25 years of wetter than usual conditions, 34 years of drier conditions and 21 years of very dry conditions were recorded. An extended drier period from the 1640s to the 1740s was identified and two shorter periods (the 1820s and the 1840s) were dominated by dry conditions. Wetter conditions dominated the 1760s-1810s and possibly record more persistent La Niña conditions that are typically associated with higher precipitation over the Pacific coast of Central America. The 1640s-1740s dry period coincides with the Little Ice Age and the associated southward displacement of the ITCZ. © 2018 Author(s). This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. Citation statistics:
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标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/109593
Appears in Collections: 影响、适应和脆弱性 气候变化事实与影响
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作者单位: School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Queens Road, Bristol, BS8 1RJ, United Kingdom; Cabot Institute, Royal Fort House, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1UJ, United Kingdom; Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, School of Modern Languages, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1TE, United Kingdom; Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security Program (CCAFS), International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), Hanoi, Viet Nam
Recommended Citation:
Guevara-Murua A.,Williams C.A.,Hendy E.J.,et al. 300 years of hydrological records and societal responses to droughts and floods on the Pacific coast of Central America[J]. Climate of the Past,2018-01-01,14(2)