The long-term temperature record from Markree Observatory, County Sligo, from 1842 to 2011

Assessing recent climatic and human influences on chironomid communities from two moderately impacted lakes in western Ireland

“…The chironomid community from Lough Meenagraun proved to be more climatically sensitive than Lough Ballygawley post-1985, with chironomid-inferred temperatures (C-IT) generally following Markree instrumental summer temperature trends. This marks the period when summer warming became prominent in the Markree instrumental record (McKeown et al, 2012). Redundancy analysis provides further evidence of recent warming as samples post-1985 are loading positively along the Summer T vector.…”

“…The NAO index values, which have the strongest influence on winter climate (McKeown et al, 2012), have been shown to have an influence on precipitation patterns, which could in turn have a discernible impact on biological activity within lakes (Jennings et al, 2000;Livingstone et al, 2010).…”

“…These lakes were also selected due to their proximity to the Markree Observatory (36 m a.s.l. ; 28.2 km from Lough Meenagraun and 3 km from Lough Ballygawley), where monthly temperature records have been established dating to 1842 (McKeown et al, 2012).…”

Variabilité et changement climatique en France de 1951 à 2010 : analyse au moyen de la classification de Köppen et des « types de climats annuels »

“…Des synthèses de l'évolution du climat en Europe occidentale, décennie par décennie de la fin du XIX e siècle à la fin du XX e siècle, ont été réalisées récemment (Moisselin et al, 2002 ;Le Roy Ladurie, 2009 ;Mauelshagen, 2010 ;McKeown et al, 2013). a.…”

Complexities in interpreting chironomid-based temperature reconstructions over the Holocene from a lake in Western Ireland

“…Ireland's geographic position on the eastern seaboard of the Atlantic Ocean makes it an important location to investigate climate variability over the Holocene due to its sensitivity to oceanic conditions and air masses affecting thermal characteristics of the adjacent land. The climate of the island is characterised by low annual temperatures (between 9 ºC and 10 ºC mean annual temperature), low summer temperatures (14 ºC mean July temperature), and high precipitation (between 1000 and 1400 mm of rainfall per annum along with west coast, and ~ 750 to 1000 mm of rainfall per annum on the eastern half of the island) (McKeown et al, 2012;Met Éireann, 2018). Achill Island has been subject to several palaeoenvironmental studies (Caseldine et al, 2005;Caseldine et al, 2007;Head et al, 2007).…”