Climate Attribution

Autumn and Winter storms over UK and Ireland are becoming wetter due to climate change

May 2024
Sarah F. Kew, Mark McCarthy, Ciara Ryan, Jennifer S.R. Pirret, Ellie Murtagh, Maja Vahlberg, Adwoa Amankona, James O. Pope, Fraser Lott, Oliver Claydon, Barry Coonan, Izidine Pinto, Clair Barnes, Sjoukje Philip
World Weather Attribution
This peer-reviewed event study assesses the extent to which human-induced climate change and the North Atlantic Oscillation influenced the average storm severity over the United Kingdom and Ireland from October 2023 to March 2024.Read More →

Climate Change Made the Extreme 2-Day Rainfall Event Associated with Flooding in Middleton, Ireland More Likely and More Intense

February 2024
Ben Clarke, Peter Thorne, Ciara Ryan, Mariam Zachariah, Conor Murphy, Gerard McCarthy, Paul O'Connor, Emannuel O. Eresanya, Niamh Cahill, Barry Coonan
Worldwide Weather Attribution
This real-time event attribution study examines extreme flooding in County Cork, Ireland, and finds that climate change since the industrial revolution has more than doubled the likelihood of such flooding events.Read More →