The Tromp foundation travel award to young scientists (TFTAYS) aims to support scientists who present papers in the area of biometeorology at the European Meteorological Society (EMS) Annual Conference. This year the EMS Conference will take in Budapest, Hungary, 3-7 September 2018. Deadline for applications and submission of abstracts is 13 April 2018. The award consists of financial sup...

There are two public talks this month directly related to agricultural meteorology, both of which to be given by Met Éireann’s Agricultural Meteorologist, Keith Lambkin. The first is the Teagasc Tillage Crop Seminar, to be held in the Tullamore Court Hotel, Tullamore, Co. Offaly on Tuesday 13th February 2018 starting at 7:30pm. Here Keith will review the difficult season tillage farmers have exper...

MÉRA is a climate reanalysis dataset recently released by Met Éireann. It covers Ireland and the UK over a 35 year period. This dataset is likely to prove a valuable resource to the agrometeorology community in Ireland. Our friends in Met Éireann will be holding a MÉRA workshop in May. Further details are below. We hope to see you there. Dear users of the MÉRA dataset, We would like to i...

Abstract submissions are now being invited for the 'Agricultural Meteorology & Phenology' Session at this year's European Meteorological Society (EMS) conference. This year the annual conference will be held in Budapest, Hungary and run between 3rd – 7th September 2018. *** Deadline for abstract submissions is 13th April 2018  *** Last year saw Dublin host the largest ever Agricultural ...

Irish researchers have made further progress in developing a next generation grass growth model. In the scientific paper published this month, the author Jack McDonnell, categorises the usefulness of medium range weather forecasts in Ireland in relation to grass growth models. The abstract of the paper entitled "Verification and bias correction of ECMWF forecasts for Irish weather stations to e...

"The Citizens’ Assembly has recommended there should be a tax on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from agriculture, among a number of other suggested measures to tackle climate change. The Assembly had been considering the topic, ‘How the State can make Ireland a leader in tackling climate change’. Its recommendations will now form the basis of a report for submission to the Houses of the Oireach...

Ireland, as well as parts of the UK, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany, all had delays sowing winter cereals due to the wet conditions. For a more in-depth analysis see the October MARS Bulletin. MARS, which monitor agricultural resources in Europe on behalf of the European Commission, publish free crop monitoring summaries every month. They can be accessed from the MARS website. ...

Congratulations to the winner of the AGMET Austin Bourke Bronze medal, Pooja Sharma. The Austin Bourke Bronze Medal is presented for a recent significant contribution to Irish agrometeorology, applied environmental meteorology, biometeorology or a related discipline. From the nominations received an award committee deemed Pooja’s work in the area “System modelling and life cycle assessment of dair...

The Inaugural Tom Keane AGMET Lecture - Tuesday 5th Sept 2017, Glasnevin, Dublin The Inaugural Tom Keane Lecture will be given by Met Éireann’s Head of Forecast Division, Gerald Fleming, with a talk entitled ‘A half-century of weather forecasting in Ireland’ This talk will consider how weather forecasting has evolved since the early days of AGMET – from charts that were plotted and analyse...

The Irish Joint Working Group on Applied Agricultural Meteorology (AGMET) is pleased to invite nominations for the award of The Austin Bourke Bronze Medal for a recent significant contribution to agrometeorology, applied environmental meteorology, biometeorology or a related discipline. Closing date for nominations is 12:00pm, Friday 4th August 2017. Download the application details. Eligibi...