Impactos de la variabilidad climática: las inundaciones de Sevilla en la década de los 1780

Abstract

The analysis of climate variability during historical periods previous to the Industrial Revolution allows study climatic phenomena before human activities were a climate change forcing, and therefore to deepen in the knowledge of natural climate variability. In this work floods in Seville during the 1780s decade are studied using various documentary sources. This decade belongs to the end phase of the Little Ice Age (LIA). Floods were consequence of intense rainfalls (basically in winter and spring), provoked by the predominance of the negative phase of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO).