Patrick McLoughlin¹, Gerard D McCarthy¹, Glenn Nolan², Kieran Hickey³, Lionel David Swan¹ and Robin Edwards⁴, (1)Irish Climate Analysis and Research Units (ICARUS), Department of Geography, Maynooth University, Ireland, Department of Geography, Maynooth University, Ireland, County Kildare, Ireland, (2)Marine Institute, Galway, Ireland, (3)University College Cork, Ireland, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland, (4)Trinity College Dublin, School of Natural Sciences, Dublin, Ireland