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The climate of Ireland is mild, humid and changeable with abundant rainfall and a lack of temperature extremes. Ireland 's climate is defined as a temperate oceanic climate, or Cfb on the Köppen climate classification system, a classification it shares with most of northwest Europe. [1][2] The island receives generally warm summers and cool ...
About. Mace Head Atmospheric Research Station was established in 1987, and is still in operation. [3] The current station manager is Mr Gerry Spain, who has held this position for the last 20 years. [4] The station PI/Contact is Professor Simon O’Doherty, who runs trace gas measurement at the University of Bristol, and the station CO-PI is ...
Met Éireann headquarters in the Glasnevin area of Dublin. The history of modern meteorology in Ireland dates back to 8 October 1860, when the first weather observations were transmitted from Valentia Observatory on Valentia Island in County Kerry to the British Meteorological Office. A network of weather stations was established around the ...
Clutter (radar) Clutter[1][2] is the unwanted return (echoes) in electronic systems, particularly in reference to radars. Such echoes are typically returned from ground, sea, rain, animals/insects, chaff and atmospheric turbulences, and can cause serious performance issues with radar systems. What one person considers to be unwanted clutter ...
The Meteorological Office, abbreviated as the Met Office, [2] is the United Kingdom's national weather and climate service. It is an executive agency and trading fund of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and is led by CEO [3] Penelope Endersby, who took on the role as Chief Executive in December 2018 and is the first woman to do so. [4]
Gerry Murphy (weather forecaster) Gerry Murphy (born 1968 or 1969) [1] is an Irish meteorologist with Met Éireann, best known for his appearances on RTÉ. [2] After graduating with a degree in Experimental Physics from University College Dublin in 1990, [3] Murphy joined Met Éireann in 1992. [2] He received meteorological training in Reading ...
Weather radar in Norman, Oklahoma with rainshaft Weather (WF44) radar dish University of Oklahoma OU-PRIME C-band, polarimetric, weather radar during construction. Weather radar, also called weather surveillance radar (WSR) and Doppler weather radar, is a type of radar used to locate precipitation, calculate its motion, and estimate its type (rain, snow, hail etc.).
EUMETNET groups naming lists by colour. Weather system naming in Europe follows several multinational schemes under the EUMETNET framework. On the north Atlantic coast, the United Kingdom's Met Office, in collaboration with its Irish counterpart Met Éireann and, since 2019, its Dutch counterpart the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI), [1] decided to introduce a storm naming ...