Noone, Clare and Noone, Simon and McClean, Deirdre and Thorne, Peter (2024) The Beast from the East and drought of summer 2018: an example of compound event impacts upon Ireland's agricultural sector. Weather, 99 (9). pp. 1-6. ISSN 0043-1656

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Abstract

The most noticeable and damaging manifestation of human-induced climate change is the increasing likelihood of certain extreme weather events. As defined in the IPCC sixth assessment report, compound extremes can lead to extreme impacts that are much larger than the sum of the impacts due to the occurrence of individual extremes alone. Of these compound weather events, events occurring in close succession have received the least attention to date. In this paper, we explore such a case study of successive events affecting the agricultural sector in Ireland arising from the winter storm of 2018, dubbed the ‘Beast from the East’, followed by the drought of summer 2018 which combined yielded a substantial reduction in agricultural productivity over 2018.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	This work was partially supported by the Irish Environmental Protection Agency as part of the preparation of Ireland’s Climate Change Assessment
Keywords:	extreme weather events, Beast from the East , climate change, agricultural productivity , drought, Ireland
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Geography Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Institutes > Irish Climate Analysis and Research Units, ICARUS
Item ID:	18635
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1002/wea.4586
Depositing User:	IR Editor
Date Deposited:	11 Jun 2024 08:33
Journal or Publication Title:	Weather
Publisher:	John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Royal Meteorological Society
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/do...
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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