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Contents 1 Lectures and Activities 1.1 Lectures 1.1.1 Pre 1996 1.1.2 1996/97 1.1.3 1997/98 1.1.4 1998/99 1.1.5 1999/2000 1.1.6 2000/2001 1.1.7 2001/2002 1.1.8 2002/2003 1.1.9 2003/2004 1.1.10 2004/2005 1.1.11 2005/2006 1.1.12 2006/2007 1.1.13 2007/2008 1.1.14 2008/2009 1.2 One day Meetings 1.3 Field Trips

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Lectures and Activities

Lectures

Pre 1996

• The Geology of Planet Earth
• Volcanic Ash Clouds, hazards to Aviation
• The Weather on Other Worlds
• Climate and History
• Coping with a Chaotic System..latest developments at ECMFW
• Urban Heat Island
• Hydrology and Extreme Rainfall events in North Antrim

1996/97

• Earth's Climate over the last 2.5 Million Years
• Flooding
• Winds of Fate - The Wolfe Tone Expedition of 1796
• FASTEX - will it help?
• Bird Strike Hazards at Aerodromes

1997/98

• Programme

• Urban Climatology: Past and Future
• Return to Cherrapunji: The Wettest Place in the World
• Satellite Meteorology: New developements
• The BT Global Challenge
• FASTEX 1997

1998/99

• Programme

• Up Up and Away ( Ballooning)
• The Indoor Climate
• Meteorology in Antarctica
• Irish contributions to Aerosol Science
• Concepts of Hydrology

1999/2000

• Programme

• Hurricane Mitch - the Irish Relief effort in Hounduras
• A Bluffer's Guide to Hurricanes
• The Weather Down Under

2000/2001

• Programme
• Is it possible to understand Dynamic Meteorology? details
• Oceans of Opportunity details
• remainder of season curtailed due to Foot & Mouth outbreak

2001/2002

• Programme

• Tornado Watch details
• Wild weather and climate change: Observations, predictions and impacts details

2002/2003

• Programme

• Flooding: The Australian Experience details

2003/2004

• Programme

• Climate Change details
• Weather Forecasting: from Woolly Art to Solid Science details
• Numerical Weather Prediction and its Applications in Agriculture and Environment details

2004/2005

• Programme
• Tropospheric Ozone details
• Climate Change: Signals from Nature
• Large Scale Weather Systems

2005/2006

• Programme
• Understanding and predicting Large Scale Weather Systems: A future research priority

2006/2007

• Programme

• When will the Antarctic ozone hole recover?
• Weather Radar details
• The story of the wind: A short history of anemometry details
• Decision support, research modelling and climatic risk in Australian broadacre agriculture details
• Man-made Global Warming: is it a Swindle? details

2007/2008

• Programme

• Managing Nature’s Moods – reducing the risk from extreme weather details
• Modelling Ireland's Climate details
• Towards reducing GHG emissions from agriculture details
• Monitoring Ireland's Climate details
• Variability in the Stratosphere: The Sun and the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation

2008/2009

• Programme

• Climate Change, Catchment Hydrology and Water Resources in Ireland details
• "The Potential for Biological Energy in Ireland" details

One day Meetings

• 1994 -Weather and Health
• 1995 - Weather and Observations
• 1996 - Environment and Climate
• 1997 - Weather Hazards
• 1998 - Weather and History
• 1999 - Meteorology and Sustainable Development
• 2000 - Weather and Food

     One day meetings have been discontinued

Field Trips

• Fota Wildlife park
• Valentia Observatory
• Mace Head Oceanographic Station
• Armagh Observatory
• 1994 - Birr Castle and Clara Bog Railway
• 1995 - Industry in Wicklow
• 1996 - Ceide Fields and Bellacorric Wind Farm:
• 1997 - Wexford and Barrow Cruise
• 1998 - Limerick, Foynes and Glin
• 1999 - Strokestown,Lanesborough and Corlea Bog
• 2000 - The Burren
• 2001 - Cancelled due Foot & Mouth
• 2008 - Armagh Observatory