ClimAtt traveled to Cartagena (Murcia, Spain) to attend the 11^th Congress of the Spanish Association of Climatology (AEC, Asociación Española de Climatología) during the days of the 17^th, 18^th and 19^th of October

This post contains part of the work performed by Robyn Dennehy during her SEFS (College of Science, Engineering and Food Science) undergraduate summer bursary, under the supervision of Dr. Lucía Hermida González and Dr. Paul Leahy.

Reanalysis data are extensively used in atmospheric science. Briefly, and in order to obtain a first general idea, reanalysis involves analysing past observational data again. These historical observational data are available from different sources such as buoys, radiosondes, ships, meteorological stations or satellites.

During the week 9^th – 13^th of April 2018, ClimAtt was at the European Geoscience Union (EGU) at the Austria Center Vienna. 

The weather that we experienced last week is not atypical in its origins. It was caused by an anomaly in the dynamic of the atmosphere that usually happens in our latitudes during the winter season (Met Éireann, 2018).

In a period of ten weeks, ten hurricanes including Maria, Irma, Harvey, and Jose have hit Central America, the Caribbean and U.S. Gulf Coast. This Atlantic Hurricane season has the dubious privilege of being the 7^th most intense since 1850 to date.

We have been making some aesthetic changes to our web site and Twitter account @ClimAtt_Project. ClimAtt is a dynamic project and we are working constantly to study the human influence in the extreme weather events in Ireland.

On 27 February 2017, the University College Cork  organized a seminar where professor Myles Allen, of the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford, explained in what consists the Probabilistic Event Attribution. The objective of this research is to determine the anthropogenic climate change on extreme weather events.

by Adam Pasik, ClimAtt Master’s student, Department of Geography, UCC

Unlike other research fields where the work is performed with tangible samples and materials, attribution studies of extreme weather events don’t offer that possibility, which make them sometimes quite difficult to understand.

Attribution is considered the process of evaluating the relative contribution of multiple causal factors to a change or event with an assignment of statistical confidence (Hergerl et al., 2010).