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  • Wind generation output during cold weather-driven electricity demand peaks in Ireland 
    Leahy, Paul G.; Foley, Aoife M. (Pergamon Press, 2012-03)
    Recent cold winters and prolonged periods of low wind speeds have prompted concerns about the increasing penetration of wind generation in the Irish and other northern European power systems. On the combined Republic of ...
  • Short duration rainfall extremes in Ireland: influence of climatic variability 
    Leahy, Paul G.; Kiely, Gerard (Springer Netherlands for European Water Resources Association, 2011-02)
    A widely-noted change in the North Atlantic circulation in the 1970s affected the spatial distribution and seasonal pattern of rainfall over Ireland. To examine if this was accompanied by a change on short duration ...
  • Persistence of low wind speed conditions and implications for wind power variability 
    Leahy, Paul G.; McKeogh, Eamon J. (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2012)
    As the penetration of wind generation increases on power systems throughout the world, the effects of wind variability on power systems are of increasing concern. This study focuses on sustained occurrences of low wind ...
  • The effect of introducing a winter forage rotation on CO2 fluxes at a temperate grassland 
    Leahy, Paul G.; Kiely, Gerard (Elsevier, 2012-08)
    Temperate grasslands have the potential to sequester carbon, helping to mitigate rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations. The ability of grasslands to absorb CO2 is influenced by site elevation, soil type, management practices, ...
  • Vortex-induced chaotic mixing in wavy channels 
    Lee, Wei-Koon; Taylor, P. H.; Borthwick, Alistair G. L.; Chuenkum, S. (Cambridge University Press, 2010-07-10)
    Mixing is studied in open-flow channels with conformally mapped wavy-wall profiles, using a point-vortex model in two-dimensional irrotational, incompressible mean flow. Unsteady dynamics of the separation bubble induced ...