"The Science of Weather Forecasting"

Saturday March 24th, National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin

Click here to book a place - free to attend. 

Please only register for this conference if you genuinely intend to attend.

Lectures (click here for conference itinerary):

• A History of Clouds by Sinéad Duffy, IMS Committee
• Flying through a Giant Cumulonimbus Cloud in a Boeing 747 - A Survivor’s Tale by Colm Conyngham, Bridgestone Ireland
• Satellites, Meteorology and Contrails by Gillian Whelan, UCC
• Weather Radar - the Hows and the Whys by Kieran Commins, IMS Committee
• What Plants can tell us about Climate Warming (Irish and Arctic case studies) by Dr Alison Donnelly, TCD
• Weather Forecasting Models in Met Éireann by Eoin Whelan, Met Éireann
• How Improvements in Science underpin our Forecasting Capability by Nicholas Grahame, Head of Forecasting, UK Met Office 
• Managing the Message - the Communication of Weather Forecasts by Gerry Murphy, Met Éireann

Poster Presentations: (we have now reached our poster quota)

• "Galway Weather Station" by Fiona Gavin, NUI Galway
"Seasonal Mean Air Temperature linked with Vegetation start of Spring as determined from Satellite Imagery" by Brian O'Connor, Aberystwyth University, Wales
"Frequency of Rain/Wet Days in 2011" by Patrick Gordon, Weather Station owner, Galway
• "Towards defining the impact of climate change on wind-driven rain and likely consequences for the built environment in Ireland" by David Smyth, NUI Maynooth
• "High-resolution observations of meteorological variables, energy balance and CO₂ concentration statistics for Dublin: 25 December 2010" by Stephanie Keogh, NUI Maynooth
• "Developing a Tourism Climatic Index for Ireland" by Nichola Salmon, ICARUS, NUI Maynooth
• "The Irish Cloud Appreciation Society" by Sally McKenna and Hans Wieland, co-founders of TICAS
• "Urban Climate Observations: Towards a Micro-scale Urban Met Forecast Progress from the Weather Information Network Dublin (WIND) Project" by Paul Alexander, NUI Maynooth
• "Forecasting Waves in the North Atlantic" by Clare Duggan, QUB
• "High resolution probabilistic forecasting for wind energy applications" by Jennifer Courtney, UCD
• "A Long Relative Humidity Series for Armagh Observatory -Its relevance to the occurrence of 19th century potato famines in Ireland and atmospheric warming in the 20th century" by Dr John Butler, Armagh Observatory
• Drought of 1976 by Nicola Brennan, UCD
• Weather at the National Botanic Gardens by Paul Maher, NBG
• Poster by Dr David Perez-Suarez, TCD
• Poster by Paul Galbally, Teagasc, Carlow
• Ireland Weather Network by Karl Mehlhorn

Other Details:

• Nature Trail and guided tour of the National Botanic Gardens at lunchtime.
• Option of attending a Met Society evening meal in the Washerwomans Hill restaurant (€26 for a 3-course meal with tea/coffee and drinks): www.washerwomans.ie 
• Click here for practical information.