The AMARNA Platform as a resource for knowledge of extraordinary meteorological events on the Spanish Mediterranean Basin on a historical scale

The AMARNA Platform (Multidisciplinary Archives for the Analysis of Natural and Anthropogenic Risks) is an initiative designed to collect, catalogue and classify the extreme meteorological events that have occurred in Spain over the last 1,000 years.

            One part of AMARNA is a repository containing records of information from primary documentary sources and bibliographic sources, in the form of graphical and textual files. The other part consists of digital files containing the basic details of the catalogued cases and episodes.

            This compilation effort provides access to over 42,000 daily records, organised into 12,000 episodes, with the possibility of gradually integrating all the information and processing it using the same procedures and criteria, whether it relates to historical or current periods. The thematic scope is also sufficiently broad, allowing for the cataloguing of all kinds of adverse meteorological phenomena and their effects on the ground, such as floods or droughts. Furthermore, the cataloguing of social impacts is included, whether due to problems with water resources, public health or food supplies.

            AMARNA has a classification system designed to provide a quantitative assessment of records relating to the adverse weather phenomena most prevalent across the Iberian Peninsula: droughts and floods.

Acknowledgements: 

The authors acknowledge the grants from FLOODMED (PID2024-157662OB-C22), funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033) and by ERDF/EU.