Professor Peter Lynch B.Sc M.Sc PhD
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Biography:
| 1994-2004: Assistant Director, Met Eireann. 1968 B.Sc. in Mathematical Science. National University of Ireland (UCD). Double 1st Class Honours, Mathematics and Mathematical Physics 1969 M.Sc.(Hons) in Mathematical Science. National University of Ireland (UCD). 1982 Ph.D. in Dynamic Meteorology, University of Dublin. |
Research Interests
| Dynamic Meteorology. Numerical weather prediction. Digital Filters. Hamiltonian Mechanics. History of Meteorology. My principal research interests are dynamic meteorology, numerical weather prediction (NWP), regional climate modelling and climate variability. I have a particular interest in balance in the atmosphere. I developed the digital filtering technique, an initialization method now in widespread international use. Additional research interests include chaos in low-order Hamiltonian systems, wave triad resonance in fluids, and the three-body problem in astronomy. I have a deep interest in the history of numerical weather prediction, and my book on the work of Lewis Fry Richardson and the origins and evolution of NWP was published by Cambridge University Press in 2006. It is entitled: "Richardson's Dream: the Emergence of Scientific Weather Forecasting". |
Books
| Peter Lynch; (2010) Rambling Round Ireland: A Commodius Vicus of Recirculation. Dublin: Liffey Press. [Details] |
| Lynch, P.; (2006) The Emergence of Numerical Weather Prediction: Richardson's Dream. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Details] |
Book Chapters
| Peter Lynch; (2011) 'From Richardson to Early Numerical Weather Prediction' In: Leo Donner, Wayne Schubert, Richard Somerville (eds). The Development of Atmospheric General Circulation Models: Complexity, Synthesis and Computation. United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press (ISBN-13: 9780521190060). [Details] |
| Rodrigo Caballero and Peter Lynch; (2011) 'Climate modelling and deep-time climate change' In: Trevor Hodkinson, Mike Jones, John Parnell and Steve Waldren (eds). Climate Change, Ecology and Systematics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Details] |
| Peter Lynch and Xiang-Yu Huang; (2010) 'Initialization' In: William Lahoz, Boris Khattatov and Richard Ménard (eds). Data Assimilation: Making sense of Observations. Germany: Springer. [Details] |
| Lynch, Peter; (2006) 'Foreword' In: Weather Prediction by Numerical Process by Lewis Fry Richardson 2nd Edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Details] |
| Lynch, Peter; (2003) 'Introduction to Initialization. ' In: R. Swinbank, V. Shutyaev and W. Lahoz (eds). Data Assimilation for the Earth System. Eds. , 378pp. [Details] |
| Lynch, Peter; (2003) 'Digital Filter Initialization' In: R. Swinbank, V. Shutyaev and W. Lahoz (eds). Data Assimilation for the Earth System. [Details] | |||||||||
| Lynch, Peter; (2002) 'The Swinging Spring: a Simple Model for Atmospheric Balance' In: J. Norbury and I. Roulstone (eds). Large-Scale Atmosphere-Ocean Dynamics: Vol II: Geometric Methods and Models. [Details] | |||||||||
| Lynch, Peter and Ray McGrath ; (2001) 'Boundary Filter Initialization of the HIRLAM Model' In: Ed. P. F. Hodnett. Kluwer Acad. Publ., 298pp (eds). Advances in Mathematical Modelling of Atmosphere and Ocean Dynamics. [Details] | |||||||||
| Finkele, Klara and Peter Lynch ; (2001) 'Development and Simulation of Atlantic Storms during FASTEX' In: Ed. P. F. Hodnett. Kluwer Acad. Publ., 298pp (eds). Advances in Mathematical Modelling of Atmosphere and Ocean Dynamics. [Details] | |||||||||
| Lynch, Peter; (2001) 'Weather forecasting: from woolly art to solid science' In: R. P. Pearce (eds). Meteorology at the Millennium. Academic Press. [Details] | |||||||||
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Peer Reviewed Journals
| Colm Clancy & Peter Lynch; (2011) 'Laplace transform integration of the shallow water equations. Part 1: Eulerian formulation and Kelvin waves'. Quarterly Journal Of The Royal Meteorological Society, 137 :792-799. [Details] |
| Sweeney, Conor, Peter Lynch and Paul Nolan; (2011) 'Reducing errors of wind speed forecasts by an optimal combination of post-processing methods'. Meteorological Applications, . [DOI] [Details] |
| Colm Clancy & Peter Lynch; (2011) 'Laplace transform integration of the shallow water equations. Part 2: Lagrangian formulation and orographic resonance'. Quarterly Journal Of The Royal Meteorological Society, 137 :800-809. [Details] |
| Nolan, P., P. Lynch and C. Sweeney; (2011) 'Simulating Climate Change and its Effects on the Wind Energy Resource of Ireland'. Wind Energy, . [DOI] [Details] |
Lynch, Peter; (2010) 'Weather and Climate Forecasting: Chronicle of a Revolution'. WMO Bulletin, 59 (2):75-78.  [Details] |
| Conor Sweeney and Peter Lynch; (2011) 'Adaptive postprocessing of short-term wind forecasts for energy applications'. Wind Energy, 14 :317-325. [DOI] [Details] | |||||||||
| Hanafin, J., McGrath, R., Semmler, T., Wang, S., Lynch, P., Steele-Dunne, S. and Nolan, P.; (2010) 'Air flow and stability indices in GCM future and control runs'. International Journal of Climatology, 31 (8):1240-1247. [DOI] [Details] | |||||||||
| Semmler, T,Varghese, S,McGrath, R,Nolan, P,Wang, SY,Lynch, P,O'Dowd, C; (2008) 'Regional model simulation of North Atlantic cyclones: Present climate and idealized response to increased sea surface temperature'. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, 113 . [DOI] [Details] | |||||||||
| Steele-Dunne, S,Lynch, P,McGrath, R,Semmler, T,Wang, SY,Hanafin, J,Nolan, P; (2008) 'The impacts of climate change on hydrology in Ireland'. Journal of Hydrology, 356 :28-45. [DOI] [Details] | |||||||||
| Peter Lynch; (2009) 'On Resonant Rossby-Haurwitz triads'. Tellus, 61A :438-445. [DOI] [Details] |
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| Peter Lynch and Miguel D Bustamante; (2009) 'Precession and Recession of the Rock'n'roller'. Journal of Physics A-Mathematical and General, 42 . [DOI] [Details] |
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| Wim Verkley and Peter Lynch; (2009) 'Energy and enstrophy spectra of geostrophic turbulent flows derived from a maximum entropy principle'. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 66 (8):2216-2236. [DOI] [Details] |
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| Peter Lynch and Gérard De Moor; (2008) 'Les origines de la prévision numérique du temps et de la modélisation climatique'. La Meteorologie, 63 :14-24. [Details] |
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| Steele-Dunne, S., Lynch, P., McGrath, R., Semmler, T., Wang, S. Y., Hanafin, J., Nolan, P., ; (2008) 'The impacts of climate change on hydrology in Ireland'. Journal of Hydrology, 356 (1-2):28-45. [Details] | |||||||||
| Shiyu Wang, Ray McGrath,Jenny Hanafin, Peter Lynch, Tido Semmler, Paul Nolan; (2008) 'The impact of climate change on storm surges over Irish waters'. Ocean Modelling, 25 :83-94. [Details] |
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| Lynch, Peter & Owen Lynch; (2008) ' Forecasts by PHONIAC'. Weather, 63 (11):324-326. [Details] |
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| Semmler, T., S. Varghese, R. McGrath, P. Nolan, S. Wang, P. Lynch, and C. O'Dowd; (2008) 'Regional climate model simulations of North Atlantic cyclones: frequency and intensity changes'. Climate Research, 36 :1-16. [DOI] [Details] |
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| Lynch, Peter; (2008) 'The ENIAC Forecasts: A Recreation'. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 89 (1):45-55. [DOI] [Details] |
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| Lynch, P.; (2008) 'The Origins of Computer Weather Prediction and Climate Modeling'. Journal of Computational Physics, 227 :3431-3444. [DOI] [Details] |
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| Burzlaff, J¨urgen, Edel DeLoughry and Peter Lynch; (2008) 'Generation of zonal flow by resonant Rossby-Haurwitz wave interactions'. Geophysical & Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics, 102 :165-177. [DOI] [Details] |
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| Bokhove, O. and Peter Lynch,; (2007) 'Air parcels and air particles: Hamiltonian dynamics'. Nieuw Arch. Wisk, 5/8 (2):100-106. [Details] | |||||||||
| Semmler, Tido, Saji Varghese, Ray McGrath, Paul Nolan, Shiyu Wang, Peter Lynch and; (2007) 'Regional model simulation of North Atlantic cyclones: present climate'. Geophysical Research Abstracts, . [Details] | |||||||||
| Black, K; Davis, P; Lynch, P; Jones, M; McGettigan, M; Osborne, B; ; (2006) 'Long-term trends in solar irradiance in Ireland and their potential effects on gross primary productivity'. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 141 (2-4):118-132. [Details] | |||||||||
| Lynch, Peter; (2004) 'A Century of NWP: The View from Limerick. '. Weather, 59 (12):331-331. [Details] | |||||||||
| R. H. Cushman, H. R. Dullin, A. Giacobbe, D. D. Holm, M. Joyeux, P. Lynch, D. A. Sadovskii and B. I. Zhilinskii.; (2004) 'The CO2 molecule as a quantum realization of the 1:1:2 resonant swing-spring with monodromy'. Physical Review Letters, 93 (2):024302-1-024302-4. [Details] | |||||||||
| Lynch, Peter, and Conor Houghton. ; (2004) 'Pulsation and Precession of the Resonant Swinging Spring'. Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 190 (1-2):38-62. [Details] | |||||||||
| Lynch, Peter; (2003) 'Richardson Extrapolation: The Power of the 2-gon'. Mathematics Today, 39 (5):159-160. [Details] | |||||||||
| Lynch, Peter; (2003) 'Resonant Rossby Wave Triads and the Swinging Spring'. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 84 :605-616. [Details] | |||||||||
| Lynch, Peter; (2003) 'Margules' Tendency Equation and Richardson's Forecast'. Weather, 58 :186-193. [Details] | |||||||||
| Lynch, Peter; (2003) 'On the Significance of the Titius-Bode Law for the Distribution of the Planets'. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 341 :1174-1178. [Details] | |||||||||
| Holm, Darryl D. and Peter Lynch; (2002) 'Stepwise Precession of the Resonant Swinging Spring'. Siam Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems, 1 :44-64. [Details] | |||||||||
| Lynch, Peter; (2002) 'Resonant Motions of the Three-dimensional Elastic Pendulum'. International Journal of Nonlinear Mechanics, 37 :345-367. [Details] | |||||||||
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Other Journals
| Peter Lynch; (2011) 'The Two-Child Paradox: Dichotomy and Ambiguity' Bulletin of the Irish Mathematical Society 67 :67-73. [Details] |
Published Reports
| Susan Dunne, Jenny Hanafin, Peter Lynch, Ray McGrath, Elisa Nishimura, Paul Nolan, J. Venkata Ratnam, Tido Semmler, Conor Sweeney and Shiyu Wang ; (2008) Ireland in a Warmer World: Scientific Predictions of the Irish Climate in the Twenty-First Century. Met Eireann, Dublin. [Details] |