MÉRA Workshop
MÉRA Workshop May 17th 2018
Teagasc Building, National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin 9
Contact details: mera@met.ie
The first MÉRA workshop consisted of presentations by a selection of users and discussion sessions where feedback, potential uses and future collaborations and plans was discussed.
Schedule
The first MÉRA data user’s workshop took place on May 17th 2018. Data users gave presentations on the following four themes:
Session 1: Climate Applications (Chair Eoin Whelan)
Session 2: Precipitation/Hydrology (Chair Eoin Whelan)
Session 3: Energy (Chair Emily Gleeson)
Session 4: Waves/Storms (Chair Emily Gleeson)
Venue
The workshop took place in the Teagasc Building at the National Botanic Gardens on the 17th May 2018.
Presentations
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)
Organising Committee
Emily Gleeson, Eoin Whelan, Laura Zubiate, Jevon Keane-Brennan