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Stormiest winter on record for Ireland and UK

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posted on 2014-11-13, 15:18 authored by Tom Matthews, Conor Murphy, Robert WilbyRobert Wilby, Shaun Harrigan
Meteorological agencies of Ireland and the UK have confirmed that winter (December to February) 2013-14 (W2013/14) set records for precipitation totals and the occurrence of extreme wind speeds1,2,3. Less clear is whether storminess (characterised as the frequency and intensity of cyclones) during W2013/14 was equally unprecedented. We assess multidecadal variations in storminess by considering frequency and intensity together and find that W2013/14 was indeed exceptional. Given the potential societal impacts there is clearly a need to better understand the processes driving extreme cyclonic activity in the North Atlantic (NA).

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  • Geography and Environment

Published in

Nature Climate Change

Volume

4

Issue

9

Pages

738 - 740

Citation

MATTHEWS, T. ... et al, 2014. Stormiest winter on record for Ireland and UK. Nature Climate Change, 4 (9), pp.738-740.

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Nature Publishing Group / © The authors

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2014-08-27

Notes

This article was published in the journal Nature Climate Change [Nature Publishing Group / © The authors]. The definitive version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2336.

ISSN

1758-678X

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1758-6798

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  • en

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