Thursday 26th November 2020
lastair McKinstry from ICHEC spoke about “The CMIP6 Experiments: Climate modelling with EC-Earth”:
This talk described the latest climate modelling results from EC-Earth and other models. CMIP6 is the latest Coupled Model Intercomparison Project, which feeds into the UN IPCC report on climate change in 2021, comparing the state of the art of climate models, what they predict and what remains unresolved. CMIP6 has involved all of the world’s major modelling teams, and the work here in Ireland has been led by Dr Paul Nolan.
Thursday 22nd October 2020
When is the day after tomorrow? by Dr Levke Caesar
This talk gave an introduction to tipping points/elements in the climate system and whether we should care about them. The Atlantic Ocean circulation transports massive amounts of heat into the North Atlantic region and a severe slowdown would affect the whole Northern Hemisphere. Climate models predict that the currents will weaken under global warming and recent studies suggest that this weakening has already started.
29th September 2020
Dr Lisa Orme, a Geography lecturer and palaeoclimatologist from the ICARUS research centre at Maynooth University, gave a presentation on:
“Changes in storminess and storm tracks in Europe during recent millennia” A very interesting talk on how it is possible to obtain evidence of past storminess from sand blown from beaches and dunes.
Irish Meteorological Society 