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Climate Change and Environmental Sciences Committee Release Expert Statement

01 August 2017

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PDF icon Irish Storminess: What does the Future Hold

The Academy Climate Change and Environmental Sciences Committee have launched an expert statement on future storminess.

Winter storms in recent years have caused major disruption and economic loss in Ireland, but are the storms and their track patterns in the North Atlantic changing or expected to change in the future?

The Royal Irish Academy Climate Change and Environmental Sciences Committee have issued an expert statement examining this question. The statement looks at storm tracks, changes in storm tracks in the past and current climate and future projections of storm tracks.

To read the analysis, and discover the answer to the question, please click here

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