Supplementary Information to Wetter, Oliver; Pfister, Christian; et al. (2014). The year-long unprecedented European heat and drought of 1540 – a worst case, Climatic Change (2014) 125:349–363

This dataset contains
- Table S1, Documentary evidence of the 1540 drought in Europe (Austria; Belgium & the Netherlands; Czech Republic; France; Germany I; Germany II (Lake Constance Region); Hungary and Romania; Italy; Poland; Portugal; Russia; Spain; Sweden; Switzerland; United Kingdom);
- Table S2, Number of Precipitation Days (NPD) for Poland (PL) and Switzerland (CH);
- Table S3, Number of precipitation days (NPD) in 1540 compared to the 20th-century mean in northern
Switzerland and Cracow, Poland;
- Table S4, PA estimates compared to previous estimates of Limanówka et al. (2001);
- Figure S1, Draws of the model parameters for WCEu for all chains;
- Figure S2, Cross correlation between the draws of the parameters for WCEu;
- Figure S3, Scatter plots of days with precipitation (NRD) during the instrumental period, 1864 – 2012.
Circles = NRD ≥ 3mm precipitation amount; crosses = NRD ≥ 1 mm precipitation amount;
- Figure S4, Relative probability of occurrence of extreme drought years:;
- Figure S5, 11-year moving average of mean summer (JJA) temperatures for central Europe (1500–2000);
- Figure S6, Extract from the chronicle of the vine-grower Hans Stolz from Guebwiller (Alsace, France) for
1540.