Outcome

Monographs:

Oliński P. 2022. Weather and climate of the south Baltic regions from the end of the 14th to the beginning of the 16th century in narrative sources. Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika, 300 pp. DOI: https://doi.org/10.12775/978-83-231-4936-1 (in Polish)

Peer-review papers:

2025

Ghazi B., Przybylak R., Oliński P., Pospieszyńska A. 2025. Flood occurrences and characteristics in Poland (Central Europe) in the last millennium. Global and Planetary Change, Volume 246, 104706, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2025.104706

Ghazi B., Salehi H., Przybylak R., Pospieszyńska A. 2025. Projection of climate change impact on the occurrence of drought events in Poland. Sci. Rep. 15, 5609. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-90488-0 

2024

Bogdańska K. 2024. Klasyfikacje powodzi z perspektywy historycznej i geograficznej (w:) Kleśta-Nawrocki R., Oliński P., Piasek W. (red.) Badanie środowiska przyrodniczego w naukach humanistycznych, społecznych i przyrodniczych, Natura Homines Historia. Studia z historii środowiskowej, vol. 4, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika, Toruń s. 69-91. https://doi.org/10.12775/978-83-231-5271-2

Brönnimann S., Filipiak J., Chen S., Pfister L. 2024. The weather of 1740, the coldest year in central Europe in 600 years. Climate of the Past, 20, 2219–2235, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-2219-2024

Ghazi B., Przybylak R., Oliński P., Targowski M., Filipiak J., Pospieszyńska A. 2024. A comprehensive study of floods in Poland in the 17th–18th centuries. Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies 53, 101796, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejrh.2024.101796 

Oliński P. 2024. O problemach rekonstrukcji klimatu na podstawie źródeł historycznych (w:) Kleśta-Nawrocki R., Oliński P., Piasek W. (red.) Badanie środowiska przyrodniczego w naukach humanistycznych, społecznych i przyrodniczych, Natura Homines Historia. Studia z historii środowiskowej, vol. 4, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika, Toruń s. 45-56. https://doi.org/10.12775/978-83-231-5271-2

2023

Brázdil R., Dobrovolný P., Pfister C., Kleemann K., Chromá K., Szabó P., Olinski P. 2023. Weather and climate and their human impacts and responses during the Thirty Years' War in central Europe. Climate of the Past, 19, 1863–1890, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-1863-2023

Ghazi B., Przybylak R., Oliński P., Bogdańska K., Pospieszyńska A. 2023. The frequency, intensity, and origin of floods in Poland in the 11th–15th centuries based on documentary evidence. Journal of Hydrology 623, 129778, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2023.129778

Ghazi B., Przybylak R., Oliński P., Chorążyczewski W., Pospieszyńska A. 2023. An assessment of flood occurrences in Poland in the 16th century. Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 50, 101597, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejrh.2023.101597

Ghazi B., Przybylak R., Pospieszyńska A. 2023. Projection of climate change impacts on extreme temperature and precipitation in Central Poland. Sci. Rep. 13, 18772. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-46199-5

Lundstad E., Brugnara Y., Pappert D., Kopp J., Samakinwa E., Hürzeler A., Andersson A., Chimani B., Cornes R., Demarée G., Filipiak J., Gates L., Ives G.L., Jones J.M., Jourdain S., Kiss A., Nicholson S.E., Przybylak R., Jones P., Rousseau D., Tinz B., Rodrigo F.S., Grab S., Domínguez-Castro F., Slonosky V., Cooper J., Brunet M., Brönnimann S. 2023. The global historical climate database HCLIM. Sci. Dat. 10, 44, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01919-w

Oliński P. 2023. On the beneficial effects of storms: examples from Hanseatic towns, in: Pre-modern towns at the times of catastrophes: East Central Europe in a comparative perspective, ed. by Antonín Antonín Malaníková, Możejko Beata, Nodl Martin, 2023, Abingdon, Oxon, New York, Routledge, pp. 21-31. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003323587

Przybylak R., Oliński P., Koprowski M., Szychowska-Krąpiec E., Krąpiec M., Pospieszyńska, A., Puchałka R. 2023. The climate in Poland (central Europe) in the first half of the last millennium, revisited. Climate of the Past, 19, 2389–2408, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-2389-2023

2022

Bogdańska K. 2022. „Non fuit in memoria hominum senum tanta inundatio” Vistula flood in Toruń in 1465/1466. Rocznik Toruński 49: 7-41, http://dx.doi.org/10.12775/RT.2022.001 (in Polish)

Klisz M., Jevsenak J., Prokopuk Y., Gil W., Mohytych V., Puchałka R. 2022. Coping with Central European climate - xylem adjustment in seven non-native conifer tree species. Dendrobiology 88: 105-123, doi: 10.12657/denbio.088.008

O’Neill P., Connolly R. Connolly M.,  Soon W., Chimani B., Crok M., de Vos R., Harde H., Kajaba P., Nojarov P., Przybylak R., Rasol D., Skrynyk O., Skrynyk O., Štěpánek P., Wypych A., Zahradníček P., 2022. Evaluation of the Homogenization Adjustments Applied to European Temperature Records in the Global Historical Climatology Network Dataset. Atmosphere, 13, 285. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos13020285 

Pappert D., Barriendos M., Brugnara Y., Imfeld N., Jourdain S., Przybylak R., Rohr, C., Brönnimann, S. 2022. Statistical reconstruction of daily temperature and sea-level pressure in Europe for the severe winter 1788/89. Clim. Past, 18, 2545 2565, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-18-2545-2022

2021

Oliński P. 2021. Severe Winters and Interruptions in Shipping Traffic in The Port of Elbląg in The Period 1585-1700. World J. Agri. & Soil Sci. 7(3): 1-3. WJASS.MS.ID.000664. DOI: 10.33552/WJASS.2021.07.000664.

Opała-Owczarek M., Niedźwiedź T., Przybylak R., Tylmann W. 2021. Climate Change Before Instrumental Measurements. In: Falarz M. (eds) Climate Change in Poland. Springer Climate. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70328-8_5.

Pappert D., Brugnara Y., Jourdain S., Pospieszyńska A., Przybylak R., Rohr C., Brönnimann S. 2021. Unlocking weather observations from the Societas Meteorologica Palatina (1781–1792). Climate of the Past 17: 2361-2379, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-17-2361-2021.

Waszak N., Robertson I., Puchałka R., Przybylak R., Pospieszyńska A., Koprowski M. 2021. Investigating the Climate-Growth Response of Scots Pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) in Northern Poland. Atmosphere, 12, 1690. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos12121690.

Abstracts:

2024

Ghazi B., Przybylak R., Oliński P., Pospieszyńska A. 2024. Reconstruction of floods in Poland in the last 1000 years, EMS Annual Meeting 2024, Barcelona, Spain, 1–6 Sep 2024, EMS2024-53, https://doi.org/10.5194/ems2024-53

Pospieszynska A., Przybylak R. 2024. Extreme air temperature in Toruń (Poland), 1871–2020, EMS Annual Meeting 2024, Barcelona, Spain, 1–6 Sep 2024, EMS2024-336, https://doi.org/10.5194/ems2024-336

Filipiak J., Przybylak R., Pospieszyńska A., Oliński P., Araźny A. 2024. Reconstruction of strong winds in Gdansk, Poland, in the 18th century, EMS Annual Meeting 2024, Barcelona, Spain, 1–6 Sep 2024, https://doi.org/10.5194/ems2024-665

Przybylak R., Araźny A., Filipiak J., Oliński P., Szwaba A. 2024. Strong winds in Poland from the 13th to 18th centuries, EMS Annual Meeting 2024, Barcelona, Spain, 1–6 Sep 2024, EMS2024-321, https://doi.org/10.5194/ems2024-321

Przybylak R., Oliński P. 2024. Extreme weather and climate conditions in the South Baltic Sea coast in the 15th and 16th centuries and their impact on the society and the economy. Nordic Climate History. Learning from past experience. Abstracts. Oslo, 23-24.05. 2024

Ghazi B., Przybylak R., Oliński P., Pospieszyńska A. 2024 Reconstruction of floods in Poland in the pre-instrumental period (1001-1800), EGU General Assembly 2024, Vienna, Austria, 14–19 Apr 2024, EGU24-99, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-99

2023

Ghazi B., Przybylak R., Oliński P., Chorążyczewski W., Bogdańska K., Pospieszyńska A. 2023. The assessment of historical floods in Poland in the 16th century (in:) XL National Congress of Agrometeorologists and Climatologists, Wrocław-Pawłowice, October 11-13, 2023. Conference materials. p. 20

Ghazi B., Przybylak R., Oliński P., Bogdańska K., Pospieszyńska A. 2023. Documentary evidence of past floods in Poland in the 11th–15th centuries, EMS Annual Meeting 2023, Bratislava, Slovakia, 4–8 Sep 2023, EMS2023-80, https://doi.org/10.5194/ems2023-80

Ghazi B., Przybylak R., Pospieszyńska A. 2023a. Impact of climate change on temperature and precipitation in Toruń, Poland, based on CMIP6 under SSP scenarios. EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, 24–28 Apr 2023, EGU23-283, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-283

Ghazi B., Przybylak R., Pospieszyńska A. 2023b. Estimation of droughts and floods occurrences in central Poland under climate change scenarios, EMS Annual Meeting 2023, Bratislava, Slovakia, 4–8 Sep 2023, EMS2023-91, https://doi.org/10.5194/ems2023-91

Pospieszyńska A., Przybylak R. 2023. Extreme precipitation in Toruń (Poland), 1871-2020, EMS Annual Meeting 2023, Bratislava, Slovakia, 4–8 Sep 2023, EMS2023-335, https://doi.org/10.5194/ems2023-335

Przybylak R., Oliński P., Koprowski M., Szychowska-Krąpiec E., Krąpiec M., Puchałka R. 2023. Poland’s climate in the medieval period, EMS Annual Meeting 2023, Bratislava, Slovakia, 4–8 Sep 2023, EMS2023-67, https://doi.org/10.5194/ems2023-67

2022

Pospieszyńska A., Przybylak R. Wyszyński P. 2022. Precipitation in Żagań in the historical (1781-1792) and contemporary (1888-2020) periods. [in:] Scientific conference "Weather and climate - past, present, future" organized on the occasion of the 230th anniversary of the beginning of meteorological measurements in Krakow and the 70th anniversary of the Department of Climatology IGiGP UJ, September 21-23, 2022. Abstracts of papers and posters (in Polish).

Przybylak R., Oliński P., Ghazi B., Bogdańska K., Pospieszyńska A. 2022. Frequency, scale and genesis of floods in Poland in the 12th-15th centuries in the light of historical sources. [in:] Scientific conference "Weather and climate - past, present, future" organized on the occasion of the 230th anniversary of the beginning of meteorological measurements in Krakow and the 70th anniversary of the Department of Climatology IGiGP UJ, September 21-23, 2022. Abstracts of papers and posters (in Polish).

Przybylak R., Wyszyński P., Pospieszyńska A., 2022. Precipitation totals measured in different heights above ground in Meteorological Observatory of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń and their utilities [in:] 5th National Methodical Conference "Issues of measurements and studies of meteorological elements", Lublin, June 30 - July 2, 2022, 26-27 p. (in Polish). 

Conferences:

2024

EMS Annual Meeting 2024, Barcelona, Spain, 1–6 Sep 2024. Orals: Aleksandra Pospieszyńska, Babak Ghazi, Rajmund Przybylak, Janusz Filipiak

Nordic Climate History, Learning from past experience, Oslo, 23-24.05. 2024, Oral: Przybylak R. "Extreme weather and climate conditions in the South Baltic Sea coast in the 15th and 16th centuries and their impact on the society and the economy"

EGU General Assembly 2024, Vienna, Austria, 14–19 Apr 2024, EGU24-99, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-99 Oral: Ghazi B. "Reconstruction of floods in Poland in the pre-instrumental period (1001-1800)" 

2023

Lecture at the Uphagen House in Gdańsk, October 25, 2023, Paper: Piotr Oliński, Weather conditions in Gdańsk in the Middle Ages and in modern times

XL National Congress of Agrometeorologists and Climatologists, Wrocław-Pawłowice, October 11-13, 2023. Oral: Rajmund Przybylak

EMS Annual Meeting 2023, Bratislava, Slovakia & Online, 3–8 September 2023. Orals and posters by: Rajmund Przybylak, Babak Ghazi and Aleksandra Pospieszyńska

International Medieval Congress in Leeds, 3-6 July 2023. Paper: Katarzyna Bogdańska

Conference of the Committee on the History of Cities at the Committee of Historical Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Gdańsk, June 21-23, 2023. Paper: Piotr Oliński, Memory of medieval floods in Elbląg chronicles.

EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna Austria, 23-28.04. 2023, Oral: Ghazi B. et al. Impact of climate change on temperature and precipitation in Toruń, Poland, based on CMIP6 under SSP scenarios

Workshop "Storminess in the Baltic Sea", 18-20 of January 2023, Institute of Geology, Faculty of Geographical and Geological Sciences of Adam Mickiewicz University, Oral: Oliński P. Written historical sources on storm induced coastal flooding at the Baltic Sea Basin

Workshop „Baltic storminess”, Poznań, 19-20 stycznia 2023. Oral: Oliński P. Storms over the Baltic Sea in historical times

2022

Natura inter scientia. The study of the natural environment in the humanities, social and natural sciences within the cycle Natura, Homines, Historia, Toruń, 17–18.11.2022. Presentations: 1) Bogdańska K. Flood classifications from a historical and geographical perspective. 2) Chorążyczweski W. Archives of the past, present and future, their utility in climate and weather phenomena research. 3) 3) Oliński P. On the problems of climate reconstruction based on historical sources

Scientific conference "Weather and climate - past, present, future" organized on the occasion of the 230th anniversary of the beginning of meteorological measurements in Krakow and the 70th anniversary of the Department of Climatology IGiGP UJ, September 21-23, 2022, Krakow. Presentations: 1) Przybylak R., Oliński P., Ghazi B., Bogdańska K., Pospieszyńska A. Frequency, scale and genesis of floods in Poland in the 12th-15th centuries in the light of historical sources. 2) Pospieszyńska A., Przybylak R. Wyszyński P. Precipitation in Żagań in the historical (1781-1792) and contemporary (1888-2020) periods.

5th National Methodical Conference "Issues of measurements and studies of meteorological elements", Lublin, June 30 - July 2, 2022, Presentation by Przybylak R., Wyszyński P., Pospieszyńska A., Precipitation totals measured in different heights above ground in Meteorological Observatory of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń and their utilities

4th Forum of Young Researchers of Urban History - Antinomies, contrasts, polarizations in cities and between cities in Poland and Europe from the Middle Ages to the end of the 19th century, Toruń, 22.06.2022. Presentation: Bogdańska K. Non fuit in memoria hominum senum tanta inundacio… Vistula flood in Toruń in 1465/1466.

Environmental history in Poland - review of research, March 31 - April 1, 2022, Collegium Historicum Poznań, Presentation by Przybylak R., Oliński P., Chorążyczewski W., Filipiak J., Koprowski M., Nowosad W., Pacevičius A., Pospieszyńska A., Puchałka R., Targowski M., Wyszyński P., Bogdańska K., Ghazi B.: Objectives and scope of research under the NCN project entitled  "The occurrence of extreme weather, climate and water events in Poland from the 11th to the 18th century in the light of multiproxy data" (in Polish), 2) Oliński P. On the possibilities of interpreting the strength of past storms