2026 Rudolf Brázdil: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	61	2775	2650	6	6	376	13501

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Czechia Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Czechia Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Czechia Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Czechia Leader Award

Overview

Rudolf Brázdil is affiliated with the Czech Academy of Sciences in the Czech Republic and has contributed extensively to research in Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work encompasses a variety of topics within climatology and hydrology, focusing significantly on climate variability, hydrological phenomena, and related environmental risks.

The main fields of study in Brázdil's research include:

Environmental Science
Earth and Planetary Sciences

Within these fields, the scientist has specialized in several subfields, including:

Global and Planetary Change
Atmospheric Science
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
Environmental Engineering

The core topics addressed in their work cover:

Climate variability and models
Hydrology and Drought Analysis
Tree-ring climate responses
Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
Fire effects on ecosystems
Landslides and related hazards
Flood Risk Assessment and Management

Brázdil has published frequently in several scientific journals with notable publication counts in:

Climate of the Past (9 publications)
International Journal of Climatology (7 publications)
Atmosphere (5 publications)
Theoretical and Applied Climatology (5 publications)
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (3 publications)

The following are selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Rudolf Brázdil:

Observed changes in precipitation during recent warming: The Czech Republic, 1961-2019, 2021, International Journal of Climatology
Reflections of global warming in trends of temperature characteristics in the Czech Republic, 1961-2019, 2020, International Journal of Climatology
Current European flood-rich period exceptional compared with past 500 years, 2020, Nature
Developing a large-scale dataset of flood fatalities for territories in the Euro-Mediterranean region, FFEM-DB, 2022, Scientific Data
Circulation and Climate Variability in the Czech Republic between 1961 and 2020: A Comparison of Changes for Two "Normal" Periods, 2022, Atmosphere

Frequent collaborators in Brázdil's research include:

Miroslav Trnka
Pavel Zahradníček
Jan Řehoř
Petr Dobrovolný
Jan Bálek

Best Publications

Historical Climatology in Europe - the State of the Art

Rudolf Brázdil;Christian Pfister;Heinz Wanner;Hans von Storch

827
Citations
Understanding Flood Regime Changes in Europe: A state of the art assessment

J Hall;B Arheimer;M Borga;R Brazdil;R Brazdil

657
Citations
Altas podnebí Česka

Radim Tolasz;Rudolf Brázdil;Otto Bulíř;Petr Dobrovolný

575
Citations
European summer temperatures since Roman times

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

476
Citations
Historical hydrology for studying flood risk in Europe

Rudolf Brázdil;Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz;Gerardo Benito

343
Citations
Progress in the study of climatic extremes in northern and central Europe

R. Heino;R. Brazdil;E. Forland;H. Tuomenvirta

321
Citations
Current European flood-rich period exceptional compared with past 500 years

Günter Blöschl;Andrea Kiss;Alberto Viglione;Mariano Barriendos

320
Citations
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

295
Citations
A new instrumental precipitation dataset for the greater alpine region for the period 1800–2002

Ingeborg Auer;Reinhard Böhm;Anita Jurković;Alexander Orlik

274
Citations
European climate of the past 500 years: new challenges for historical climatology

Rudolf Brázdil;Petr Dobrovolný;Jürg Luterbacher;Anders Moberg

274
Citations
The variability of European floods since AD 1500

Rüdiger Glaser;Dirk Riemann;Johannes Schönbein;Mariano Barriendos

242
Citations
Climate fluctuations in the Czech Republic during the period 1961–2005

Rudolf Brázdil;Kateřina Chromá;Petr Dobrovolný;Radim Tolasz

202
Citations
Climatic Variability in Sixteenth-Century Europe and its Social Dimension: A Synthesis

Christian Pfister;Rudolf Brázdil

196
Citations
Flood Events of Selected European Rivers in the Sixteenth Century

Rudolf Brázdil;Rüdiger Glaser;Christian Pfister;Petr Dobrovolný

195
Citations
Documentary evidence of past floods in Europe and their utility in flood frequency estimation

T R Kjeldsen;Neil Macdonald;Michel Lang;Luis Mediero

175
Citations
Unlocking pre-1850 instrumental meteorological records: A global inventory

Stefan Brönnimann;Rob Allan;Linden Ashcroft;Saba Baer

160
Citations
Trends of Maximum and Minimum Daily Temperatures in Central and Southeastern Europe

R. Brázdil;M. Budíková;I. Auer;R. Böhm

156
Citations
Documentary evidence on climate in sixteenth-century Europe

Christian Pfister;Rudolf Brázdil;Ruediger Glaser;Mariano Barriendos

155
Citations
The year-long unprecedented European heat and drought of 1540 – a worst case

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

140
Citations
Documentary data and the study of past droughts: a global state of the art

Rudolf Brázdil;Rudolf Brázdil;Andrea Kiss;Andrea Kiss;Jürg Luterbacher;David J. Nash;David J. Nash

136
Citations
Climatic variability in sixteenth-century Europe and its social dimension

Christian Pfister;Rudolf Brázdil;Ruediger Glaser

61
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Petr Dobrovolný Imec

Miroslav Trnka Czech Academy of Sciences

Christian Pfister University of Bern

Ulf Büntgen University of Cambridge

Zdeněk Žalud Mendel University Brno

Jürg Luterbacher University of Giessen

Mariano Barriendos University of Barcelona

Josef Eitzinger BOKU University

Petr Hlavinka Mendel University Brno

Anders Moberg Stockholm University

External Links

Personal website of Rudolf Brázdil

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