Maynooth University Geographers published in Nature Climate Change

Wednesday, August 27, 2014 - 00:00

ICARUS researchers in the Department of Geography, Tom Mathews, Conor Murphy and Shaun Harrigan along with Professor Robert L. Wilby (Loughborough University) have had their research published in the prestigious Nature Climate Change (Impact factor 14.5 in 2012) on the storminess of winter 2013/2014.

While meteorological agencies in the UK and Ireland have acknowledged winter 2013/14 was exceptional in terms of precipitation totals and extreme wind speeds, less clear was the extent to which the frequency and intensity of cyclones experienced during the period December 2013 - February 2014 were atypical.

Their published findings indicate that the period considered experienced the most severe storminess for at least 143 years when taking into account both cyclone frequency and intensity, calling for further research into the key processes driving extreme storminess.

You can read the full article here and listen to Tom Matthews on RTE Drivetime (from 19 mins 45 seconds)