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Petr Dobrovolný

Petr Dobrovolný

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
45
Citations
6977
World Ranking
6466
National Ranking
91

Overview

Petr Dobrovolný is affiliated with Imec in Belgium and focuses their research on environmental and earth sciences. Their scholarly work primarily encompasses the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with key subfields including Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Environmental Engineering, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

Dobrovolný's research covers a range of topics such as:

  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Climate variability and models
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Hydrology and Drought Analysis
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research

The scientist's publication record includes contributions to various journals and scientific venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Climate of the Past
  • International Journal of Climatology
  • Atmosphere
  • Dendrochronologia
  • Nature Geoscience

Selected recent papers highlight Dobrovolný's active engagement in climate and atmospheric research:

  • Recent European drought extremes beyond Common Era background variability (2021), Nature Geoscience
  • Observed changes in precipitation during recent warming: The Czech Republic, 1961-2019 (2021), International Journal of Climatology
  • Circulation and Climate Variability in the Czech Republic between 1961 and 2020: A Comparison of Changes for Two "Normal" Periods (2022), Atmosphere
  • Temperature extremes and circulation types in the Czech Republic, 1961-2020 (2021), International Journal of Climatology
  • Fatalities associated with the severe weather conditions in the Czech Republic, 2000-2019 (2021), Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences

Dobrovolný has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Rudolf Brázdil
  • Kateřina Chromá
  • Pavel Zahradníček
  • Jan Řehoř
  • Miroslav Trnka

This profile reflects a body of work oriented towards understanding climate dynamics, atmospheric phenomena, and their environmental and health-related implications through empirical research and climate modeling.

Best Publications

  • Altas podnebí Česka

    Radim Tolasz;Rudolf Brázdil;Otto Bulíř;Petr Dobrovolný

  • European summer temperatures since Roman times

    J. Luterbacher;J.P. Werner;J.E. Smerdon;L. Fernández-Donado

  • Recent European drought extremes beyond Common Era background variability

    Ulf Büntgen;Otmar Urban;Paul J. Krusic;Paul J. Krusic;Michal Rybníček;Michal Rybníček

  • Monthly, seasonal and annual temperature reconstructions for Central Europe derived from documentary evidence and instrumental records since AD 1500

    Petr Dobrovolný;Anders Moberg;Rudolf Brázdil;Christian Pfister

  • European climate of the past 500 years: new challenges for historical climatology

    Rudolf Brázdil;Petr Dobrovolný;Jürg Luterbacher;Anders Moberg

  • The variability of European floods since AD 1500

    Rüdiger Glaser;Dirk Riemann;Johannes Schönbein;Mariano Barriendos

  • Climate fluctuations in the Czech Republic during the period 1961–2005

    Rudolf Brázdil;Kateřina Chromá;Petr Dobrovolný;Radim Tolasz

  • Land Surface Temperature Differences within Local Climate Zones, Based on Two Central European Cities

    Jan Geletič;Michal Lehnert;Petr Dobrovolný

  • Flood Events of Selected European Rivers in the Sixteenth Century

    Rudolf Brázdil;Rüdiger Glaser;Christian Pfister;Petr Dobrovolný

  • Documentary evidence on climate in sixteenth-century Europe

    Christian Pfister;Rudolf Brázdil;Ruediger Glaser;Mariano Barriendos

  • The year-long unprecedented European heat and drought of 1540 – a worst case

    Oliver Wetter;Christian Pfister;Johannes P. Werner;Eduardo Zorita

  • Variability of droughts in the Czech Republic, 1881-2006.

    Rudolf Brázdil;Miroslav Trnka;Petr Dobrovolný;Kateřina Chromá

  • European floods during the winter 1783/1784: scenarios of an extreme event during the ‘Little Ice Age’

    Rudolf Brázdil;Gaston R. Demarée;Mathias Deutsch;Emmanuel Garnier

  • Precipitation reconstruction for the Czech Lands, AD 1501–2010

    Petr Dobrovolný;Rudolf Brázdil;Mirek Trnka;Oldřich Kotyza

  • Soil moisture trends in the Czech Republic between 1961 and 2012

    Miroslav Trnka;Rudolf Brázdil;M. Možný;M. Možný;Petr Štěpánek

  • Droughts in the Czech Lands, 1090–2012 AD

    Rudolf Brázdil;Petr Dobrovolný;Miroslav Trnka;Oldřich Kotyza

  • Temperature and precipitation fluctuations in the Czech Republic during the period of instrumental measurements

    Rudolf Brázdil;Pavel Zahradníček;Petr Pišoft;Petr Štěpánek

  • Multi-archive summer temperature reconstruction for the European Alps, AD 1053–1996

    Mathias Trachsel;Christian Kamenik;Martin Grosjean;Danny McCarroll

  • Seasonal Temperature and Precipitation Fluctuations in Selected Parts of Europe During the Sixteenth Century

    Rüdiger Glaser;Rudolf Brázdil;Christian Pfister;Petr Dobrovolný

  • Vybrané přírodní extrémy a jejich dopady na Moravě a ve Slezsku

    Rudolf Brázdil;Ladislav Březina;Petr Dobrovolný;Martin Dubrovský

  • Observed changes in precipitation during recent warming: The Czech Republic, 1961–2019

    Rudolf Brázdil;Rudolf Brázdil;Pavel Zahradníček;Pavel Zahradníček;Petr Dobrovolný;Petr Dobrovolný;Petr Štěpánek;Petr Štěpánek

Frequent Co-Authors

Rudolf Brázdil
Rudolf Brázdil Czech Academy of Sciences
Miroslav Trnka
Miroslav Trnka Czech Academy of Sciences
Ulf Büntgen
Ulf Büntgen University of Cambridge
Zdeněk Žalud
Zdeněk Žalud Mendel University Brno
Christian Pfister
Christian Pfister University of Bern
Jürg Luterbacher
Jürg Luterbacher University of Giessen
Josef Eitzinger
Josef Eitzinger BOKU University
Mariano Barriendos
Mariano Barriendos University of Barcelona
Eduardo Zorita
Eduardo Zorita Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Centre for Materials and Coastal Research
Jan Esper
Jan Esper Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz

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