MÉRA Workshop
May 2nd 2019
National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin 9
Contact details: mera@met.ie
The second MÉRA data user’s workshop took place on May 2nd 2019. The workshop consisted of presentations by a selection of users which were supplemented by invited presentations from the Copernicus global and regional reanalysis projects.
Presentations
Introduction
Welcome
Eoin Moran (Director, Met Éireann)
National Botanic Gardens Sustainable Living Festival
Felicity Gaffney (National Botanic Gardens)
Session 1
Introduction and Status of MÉRA
Eoin Whelan (Met Éireann)
ERA5, the ECMWF C3S State-of-the-art Global Atmospheric Reanalysis
Cornel Soci (European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts)
Session 2
Copernicus Regional Reanalysis for Europe
Semjon Schimanke (Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute)
An Evaluation of Integrated Cloud Condensate in the MÉRA Reanalysis Dataset
Eadaoin Doddy (University College Dublin)
Analysing the Effect of Atmospheric Rivers on Ireland’s Extreme Precipitation Events
Liam Woods (University College Dublin)
The use of MÉRA for the Development of a Bathing Water Prediction System in Ireland
Daniel Hawtree (University College Dublin)
Intensification of agriculture in the Boyne Catchment: Modelling the environmental impacts
Daniel Courtney (Maynooth University)
Future and Historical Renewable Energy Resources and Weather-related Demand in Ireland
Laura Cooke (University College Dublin)
Session 3
C3S Arctic Regional Reanalysis
Kristian Pagh Nielsen (Danish Meteorological Institute)
Extreme Low Thicknesses during the ‘Beast from the East’ of 2018
Eddie Graham (University of the Highlands and Islands)
Verification of Extreme Windstorms in the MÉRA Dataset
Laura Zubiate (Met Éireann)
Extreme Wave Events during the Winter of 2013/2014
Frédéric Dias (University College Dublin)
Coupled Ocean-Wave Model
Clément Calvino (University College Dublin)
Latest Insights into the Use of MÉRA Data for the Simulation of Storm Surges
Nicole Beisiegel (University College Dublin)