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A 305-year continuous monthly rainfall series for the island of Ireland (1711–2016)
Conor Murphy
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Irish Climate Analysis and Research UnitS (ICARUS), Department of Geography, Maynooth University,
Maynooth, Ireland
Ciaran Broderick
Irish Climate Analysis and Research UnitS (ICARUS), Department of Geography, Maynooth University,
Maynooth, Ireland
Timothy P. Burt
Department of Geography, Durham University, Durham, DH1 3LE, UK and Department of Geographical
Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 2LR, UK
Mary Curley
Climatology and Observations Division, Met Éireann, Dublin, Ireland
Catriona Duffy
Irish Climate Analysis and Research UnitS (ICARUS), Department of Geography, Maynooth University,
Maynooth, Ireland
Julia Hall
Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources Management, Technische Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria
Shaun Harrigan
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, OX10 8BB, UK
Tom K. R. Matthews
School of Natural Sciences and Psychology, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, Merseyside, L3 3AF, UK
Neil Macdonald
Department of Geography and Planning, School of Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
Gerard McCarthy
Irish Climate Analysis and Research UnitS (ICARUS), Department of Geography, Maynooth University,
Maynooth, Ireland
Mark P. McCarthy
Met Office, Hadley Centre, Fitzroy Road, Exeter, EX1 3PB, UK
Donal Mullan
School of Natural and Built Environment, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, N. Ireland, UK
Simon Noone
Irish Climate Analysis and Research UnitS (ICARUS), Department of Geography, Maynooth University,
Maynooth, Ireland
Timothy J. Osborn
Climate Research Unit, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
Ciara Ryan
Irish Climate Analysis and Research UnitS (ICARUS), Department of Geography, Maynooth University,
Maynooth, Ireland
John Sweeney
Irish Climate Analysis and Research UnitS (ICARUS), Department of Geography, Maynooth University,
Maynooth, Ireland
Peter W. Thorne
Irish Climate Analysis and Research UnitS (ICARUS), Department of Geography, Maynooth University,
Maynooth, Ireland
Seamus Walsh
Climatology and Observations Division, Met Éireann, Dublin, Ireland
Robert L. Wilby
Department of Geography, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK
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The assessment of future impacts of climate change is associated with a cascade of uncertainty linked to the modelling chain employed in assessing local-scale changes. Understanding and quantifying this cascade is essential for developing effective adaptation actions. We find that not only do the contributions of different sources of uncertainty vary by catchment, but that the dominant sources of uncertainty can be very different on a catchment-by-catchment basis.
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Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 13, 4349–4383, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-4349-2021, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-4349-2021, 2021
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The creation of ERA5-Land responds to a growing number of applications requiring global land datasets at a resolution higher than traditionally reached. ERA5-Land provides operational, global, and hourly key variables of the water and energy cycles over land surfaces, at 9 km resolution, from 1981 until the present. This work provides evidence of an overall improvement of the water cycle compared to previous reanalyses, whereas the energy cycle variables perform as well as those of ERA5.
Seán Donegan, Conor Murphy, Shaun Harrigan, Ciaran Broderick, Dáire Foran Quinn, Saeed Golian, Jeff Knight, Tom Matthews, Christel Prudhomme, Adam A. Scaife, Nicky Stringer, and Robert L. Wilby
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 25, 4159–4183, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-4159-2021, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-4159-2021, 2021
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We benchmarked the skill of ensemble streamflow prediction (ESP) for a diverse sample of 46 Irish catchments. We found that ESP is skilful in the majority of catchments up to several months ahead. However, the level of skill was strongly dependent on lead time, initialisation month, and individual catchment location and storage properties. We also conditioned ESP with the winter North Atlantic Oscillation and show that improvements in forecast skill, reliability, and discrimination are possible.
Louise J. Slater, Bailey Anderson, Marcus Buechel, Simon Dadson, Shasha Han, Shaun Harrigan, Timo Kelder, Katie Kowal, Thomas Lees, Tom Matthews, Conor Murphy, and Robert L. Wilby
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 25, 3897–3935, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-3897-2021, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-3897-2021, 2021
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Weather and water extremes have devastating effects each year. One of the principal challenges for society is understanding how extremes are likely to evolve under the influence of changes in climate, land cover, and other human impacts. This paper provides a review of the methods and challenges associated with the detection, attribution, management, and projection of nonstationary weather and water extremes.
Andrew M. W. Newton and Donal J. Mullan
The Cryosphere, 15, 2211–2234, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-2211-2021, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-2211-2021, 2021
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This paper investigates changes in the dates of ice freeze-up and breakup for 678 Northern Hemisphere lakes and rivers from 1931–2005. From 3510 time series, the results show that breakup dates have gradually occurred earlier through time, whilst freeze-up trends have tended to be significantly more variable. These data combined show that the number of annual open-water days has increased through time for most sites, with the magnitude of change at its largest in more recent years.
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This work reconstructs a continuous 305-year rainfall record for Ireland. The series reveals remarkable variability in decadal rainfall – far in excess of the typical period of digitised data. Notably, the series sheds light on exceptionally wet winters in the 1730s and wet summers in the 1750s. The derived record, one of the longest continuous series in Europe, offers a firm basis for benchmarking other long-term records and reconstructions of past climate both locally and across Europe.
This work reconstructs a continuous 305-year rainfall record for Ireland. The series reveals...
