MÉRA Workshop

Introduction

MÉRA Workshop
Emily Gleeson (Met Éireann)

Session 1: Climate Applications

Towards a Definitive Historical High-Resolution Climate Dataset for Ireland – Promoting Climate Research in Ireland
Jason Flanagan (ICHEC) 

High Resolution Gridded Datasets of Hydro-climate Indices for Ireland
Christopher Werner (ICHEC)

Analysis of Historical Climate Data for Ireland and its Impact on Late Blight of Potatoes
Joan de Lacey (BlightLink)

Creating High Spatio-temporal Resolution Maps of Atmospheric Dry Deposition Velocities using the MÉRA Dataset
Hazel Cathcart/Kayla Wilkins (Trent U.)

Session 2: Precipitation / Hydrology

Validation of MÉRA Total Precipitation at Stornoway (Scotland) with a 24 GHz Micro Rain Radar
Edward Graham (UHI)

Preliminary Comparison of MÉRA Precipitation Estimates with Radar and Rain-gauge Data for Flood Estimation.
Michael Bruen (UCD)

MÉRA and Real-time Flood Forecasting: Application to River Suir at Clonmel
Jan Verkade (Deltares)

Session 3: Energy

Wind-solar Correlations and Wind Ramping Events in Reanalysis Datasets over Ireland
Seanie Griffin (UCD)

Analysing Energy Demand and Weather in Ireland: Correlations and Spatial Patterns
Laura Cooke (UCD)

An Evaluation of the Relationships between MÉRA derived Wind Speeds and SW Radiation and Large-scale Atmospheric Pressure Patterns
João M. Correia (UCD)

Wind Energy Production Backcasts based on a High-resolution Reanalysis Dataset
Paul Leahy (UCC)

Shortwave Radiation in Reanalyses: Skill Scores and Spatial Patterns
Eadaoin Doddy (UCD)

Session 4: Waves / Storms

The OCEANERA-NET COFUND RESOURCECODE Project
Frédéric Dias (UCD)

CFD Simulation of Storm Surges on the Irish West Coast Using MÉRA Data
Nicole Beisiegel (UCD)

Extreme Wave Events of Winter 2013/2014 off the West Coast of Ireland
Jelena Janjić (UCD)

Workshop Proceedings

MÉRA Workshop Proceedings
Emily Gleeson, Eoin Whelan [editors]

Emily Gleeson, Eoin Whelan, Laura Zubiate, Jevon Keane-Brennan