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Docta Complutense author Domínguez Castro, Fernando author Santisteban Navarro, Juan Ignacio author Barriendos, Mariano author Mediavilla López, Rosa María 2023-06-20T09:28:00Z 2023-06-20T09:28:00Z 2008 0921-8181 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2008.06.002 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/49628 http://www.elsevier.com/locate/gloplacha Rogation (ceremonies to ask God for rain: pro-pluvia, or to stop raining: pro-serenitate) analysis is an effective method to derive information about climate extremes from documentary data. Weighted annual sum by levels has been a widespread technique to analyze such data but this analysis is liable to be biased to spring values as these ceremonies are strongly related to farming activities. The analysis of the length of propluvia periods (the time span during which rogations are carried out in relation to a drought event) and the combination of annual and seasonal information offers a more objective criterion for the analysis of the drought periods and an increase in the resolution of the study. Analysis by the pro-pluvia periods method of the rogation series from the Toledo (central Spain) Cathedral Chapter allows a good characterization of the droughts during the 1506–1900 period. Two drought maxima appear during the 1600–1675 and 1711–1775 periods, characterized by rogations during almost all the year, with a middle stage (1676–1710) when droughts were less frequent and their length shortened. Sea level pressure patterns for the instrumental and documentary periods show that droughts were mostly related to a north-eastern position of the Azores High that displaced the Atlantic lowpressure systems towards a northern position. There is a weak relation with the North Atlantic Oscillation but this fact is related to the local character of the series that increases the weight of the local factors. Comparison of rainfall/drought records around Spain and theWestern Mediterranean reveals the heterogeneity of their distribution in time and space as well as stresses the need of more and longer reconstructions. Better knowledge of drought variability would help to improve regional models of climate extremes and the understanding of the atmospheric patterns related to their development. eng Reconstruction of drought episodes for central Spain from rogation ceremonies recorded at the Toledo Cathedral from 1506 to 1900: A methodological approach journal article URL https://docta.ucm.es/bitstreams/864f8400-0aa4-44b7-baee-697ce4d2b236/download File MD5 65882891c71978e843eb8723c4f141c4 1134710 application/pdf Dominguez-Castro_et_al_2008_01.pdf URL https://docta.ucm.es/bitstreams/f5befad9-88b6-451d-af81-64816122bf64/download File MD5 dad4a4f20d3c07f13e073048f7cd1fa2 70703 text/plain Dominguez-Castro_et_al_2008_01.pdf.txt