CATASTROPHIC FLOODS ON THE DNIEPER RIVER IN THE PERIOD OF POLAR SOLAR ECLIPSES

Abstract

The purpose of this paper was to reveal the relationship between the years of devastating spring floods on the Dnieper River and polar Solar Eclipses. The chronicle information about spring floods on the Dnieper had been studied. The results were compared with a series of Solar Eclipse Saroses. It was found that the years of catastrophic floods often corresponded to the years of polar Solar Eclipses, belonging to different Saros series. It has been revealed for the first time that between the high spring floods in the same series of Eclipses there was often a correlation multiple of 18 years (Saros), including Big Saros (54 years), as well as a connection with the adjoining series of Eclipses, resulting in a shift equal to 29 (Inex) and 11 years.