November 22nd Dr Ken Byrne from UL spoke on The Role of Forest in Mitigating Climate Change
26th October 2023
An Evening of Aviation Meteorology
Capt Peter Mc Donnell from Aer lingus brought us on an interesting flight path through all the initiatives the aviation is taking to achieve net zero
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26th October 2023
An Evening of Aviation Meteorology
Michelle Dillon explained the connections between aviation and meteorology.
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Tuesday 28th September 2023
Irelands Long Term Averages 1991-2020 with Mary Curley, Barry Coonan and Ciara Ryan from Met Éireann
22nd June 2023 Dr Robert Hausen of DWD
Talk by Robert Hausen of DWD for the Irish Meteorological Society about the Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) from a forecasters perspective.
20th April 2023 Numerical Weather Prediction: Now and in the Future
Dr. Colm Clancy of Met Éireann gave a fascinating talk on the state-of-the-art of Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP), focussing on the current and planned operational NWP systems at Met Éireann. He discussed how changing technologies and the increasingly-rapid development of AI-based prediction systems may affect our future operational forecasting.
23rd March 2023 The Great European Drought of 1921
Dr. Gerard van der Schrier of KNMI gave this Irish Meteorological Society Seminar. The European drought of 1921 still stands as the most severe drought in Europe since the 1870s. In this presentation, the development of impacts of the drought are categorized by a systematic survey of newspaper reports from five European newspapers covering the area from England to the Czech Republic and a more anecdotal overview of other parts of Europe, including Ireland. This is coupled to a reconstruction of daily temperature and precipitation based on meteorological measurements to quantify the drought severity and extent, and reanalysis data is used to identify its drivers.
23rd February 2023 An Post’s path to Net Zero
Nicola Woods from an Post gave a superb talk on how An Post plans to reach Net Zero though a policy of staff engagement and putting sustainability at the heart of every thing they do
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