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    Climate change made the extreme 2-day rainfall event associated with flooding in Midleton, Ireland more likely and more intense


    Clarke, B, Thorne, Peter, Ryan, Ciara, Zachariah, Mariam, Murphy, Conor, McCarthy, Gerard, O'Connor, Paul, Eresanya, Emmanuel. O, Cahill, Niamh and Coonan, Barry (2024) Climate change made the extreme 2-day rainfall event associated with flooding in Midleton, Ireland more likely and more intense. Technical Report. Imperial College London, London.

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    Official URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/109420

    Abstract

    On the 17th and 18th October 2023, Storm Babet brought record rainfall amounts to the south of Ireland leading to significant flooding, with the town of Midleton, County Cork severely impacted. The intense 2-day rainfall fell on soils saturated by over 3 months of above average rainfall. The study, which involved ICARUS along with the World Weather Attribution (WWA) team based in Imperial College London and Met Eireann and was carried out for RTÉ, found that the extreme rainfall that occurred over two days had “an increased intensity of around 13% due to global warming”
    Item Type: Monograph (Technical Report)
    Additional Information: Review authors Friederike Otto, Grantham Institute, Imperial College London, UK
    Keywords: Flooding; Ireland; Cork; Midleton; rainfall; climate change; hydrological modelling; Storm Babet;
    Academic Unit: Faculty of Science and Engineering > Research Institutes > Hamilton Institute
    Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Institutes > Irish Climate Analysis and Research Units, ICARUS
    Item ID: 18245
    Depositing User: Corinne Voces
    Date Deposited: 05 Mar 2024 12:57
    Publisher: Imperial College London
    Refereed: Yes
    URI: https://mu.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/18245
    Use Licence: This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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