Conor Murphy
Biographic Data
| ID | 3584387 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Conor Murphy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Conor |
| FAMILY NAME | Murphy |
| SIGNATURE | MURPHY C |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Ireland, Maynooth |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4891-2650 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Urban environmental policy transitions, drinking water supply system shifts in 1830s New York City and implications for urban climate resilience action
The objective of this paper is to examine transformational change in the New York City water supply system through the use of a framework designed to investigate urban environmental policy transitions. The framework utilises resilience theory and complex system transition theory to examine how a policy system responds to a series of stressors and shocks and then might undergo a broad system-level change — a “critical transition,” which is a non-l…
Adapting to climate change: Insights on being better prepared for Ireland’s future climate
Climate change is already impacting Ireland, through rising temperatures, more frequent extreme weather events, and increasing risks such as coastal erosion and flooding. Volume 3 of the Irish Climate Change Assessment Report (ICCA), launched in 2024, synthesises extensive research on past and projected climate-change impacts and provides a roadmap for being prepared for Ireland’s future climate. While climate action nationally has been focused o…
Future prospects for backyard skating rinks look bleak in a warming climate
Each winter, purpose‐built outdoor skating rinks are constructed in backyards and community parks across much of Canada and the northern United States. Past research projects that warmer winters will make it increasingly difficult to build outdoor rinks without artificial refrigeration. Here we build upon previous studies by mapping areas of North America where present average January temperatures are generally suitable each year for building out…
Google Trends indicators to inform water planning and drought management
Indicators are important tools for tracking the socio-environmental impacts of droughts and building resilience to climate change. We begin with an overview of metrics used for water planning and drought management, with particular emphasis on the UK. We explain how considerations of cost, immediacy, access, consistency, relevance, reliability and others denote the suitability of information for developing new indicators. We then demonstrate the …
Abrupt drought termination in the British–Irish Isles driven by high atmospheric vapour transport
During protracted dry spells, there is considerable interest from water managers, media and the public in when and how drought termination (DT) will occur. Robust answers to these questions require better understanding of the hydroclimatic drivers of DT than currently available. Integrated vapour transport (IVT) has been found to drive DT in Western North America, but evidence elsewhere is lacking. To evaluate this association for the British–Iri…
Health and wellbeing implications of adaptation to flood risk
Adaptation strategies to ameliorate the impacts of climate change are increasing in scale and scope around the world, with interventions becoming a part of daily life for many people. Though the implications of climate impacts for health and wellbeing are well documented, to date, adaptations are largely evaluated by financial cost and their effectiveness in reducing risk. Looking across different forms of adaptation to floods, we use existing li…
The impacts of and responses to place loss in a coastal community in Ireland
This paper explores the impact of place loss due to the loss of a beach from coastal erosion in the community of Courtown, Co. Wexford, Ireland. Using in-depth walking interviews and photo-elicitation, we investigate (i) the experiences and emotional challenges of place loss; (ii) the impacts of place loss and adaptive actions on people–place relationships and; (iii) how individuals re-imagine the future of place following loss. We find that plac…
Latent heat must be visible in climate communications
Anthropogenic forcing is driving energy accumulation in the Earth system, including increases in the sensible heat content of the atmosphere, as measured by dry‐bulb temperature—the metric that is almost universally used for communications about climate change. The atmosphere is also moistening, though, representing an accumulation of latent heat, which is partly concealed by dry‐bulb temperature trends. We highlight that, consistent with basic t…
The utility of Google Trends as a tool for evaluating flooding in data‐scarce places
Google Trends (GT) offers a historical database of global internet searches with the potential to complement conventional records of environmental hazards, especially in regions where formal hydrometeorological data are scarce. We evaluate the extent to which GT can discern heavy rainfall and floods in Kenya and Uganda during the period 2014 to 2018. We triangulate counts of flood searches from GT with available rainfall records and media reports…
Monitoring and moderating extreme indoor temperatures in low-income urban communities
Climate change presents significant threats to human health, especially for low-income urban communities in the Global South. Despite numerous studies of heat stress, surprisingly little is known about the temperatures actually encountered by people in their homes, or the benefits of affordable adaptations. This paper examines indoor air temperature measurements gathered from 47 living rooms within eight low-income communities of Accra and Tamale…
Long-term precipitation in Southwestern Europe reveals no clear trend attributable to anthropogenic forcing
We present a long-term assessment of precipitation trends in Southwestern Europe (1850–2018) using data from multiple sources, including observations, gridded datasets and global climate model experiments. Contrary to previous investigations based on shorter records, we demonstrate, using new long-term, quality controlled precipitation series, the lack of statistically significant long-term decreasing trends in precipitation for the region. Rathe…
Changing climate both increases and decreases European river floods
Place attachment, disruption and transformative adaptation
This paper explores place disruption, where transformative adaptation was proposed for flood risk management, by examining: a) the relationships between place attachment, place-related symbolic meanings, place-protective interpretative responses and attitudinal responses, and b) evaluation of governance processes. Questionnaires were administered to residents in Clontarf, County Dublin, Ireland in 2014 (n = 280) in the aftermath of community resi…
Super Storm Desmond: A process-based assessment
Super' Storm Desmond broke meteorological and hydrological records during a record warm year in the British-Irish Isles (BI). The severity of the storm may be a harbinger of expected changes to regional hydroclimate as global temperatures continue to rise. Here, we adopt a process-based approach to investigate the potency of Desmond, and explore the extent to which climate change may have been a contributory factor. Through an Eulerian assessment…
Sharing the Pain: Perceptions of Fairness Affect Private and Public Response to Hazards
Structural causes of vulnerability to hazards are well established in geographical research. But what facilitates individual adaptive behavior? How does the performance of government intervention affect such behavior? Drawing on political economy, environmental psychology, and climate justice perspectives, we explore how perceived fairness of responses to weather-related extreme events affects the public and private distribution of responsibility…
The reliability of an ‘off‐the‐shelf’ conceptual rainfall runoff model for use in climate impact assessment: Uncertainty quantification using Latin hypercube sampling
Much uncertainty is derived from the application of conceptual rainfall runoff models. In this paper, HYSIM, an ‘off‐the‐shelf’ conceptual rainfall runoff model, is applied to a suite of catchments throughout Ireland in preparation for use in climate impact assessment. Parameter uncertainty is assessed using the GLUE methodology. Given the lack of source code available for the model, parameter sampling is carried out using Latin hypercube samplin…
Patients' health-related quality-of-life and health state values for motor neurone disease/amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Unawareness of Smell Loss in Normal Aging and Alzheimer's Disease: Discrepancy between Self-Reported and Diagnosed Smell Sensitivity
Awareness of loss in smell sensitivity was assessed in 80 normal elderly subjects, 80 patients with probable Alzheimer's disease (AD), and 80 patients with sinusitis by comparing measured smell sensitivity to questionnaire-based, self-reported sensitivity. Both AD patients and sinusitis patients had significantly poorer diagnosed smell sensitivity than the normal elderly. Both patient groups had thresholds which on average were about nine times m…
Sharing the Pain: Perceptions of Fairness Affect Private and Public Response to Hazards
Structural causes of vulnerability to hazards are well established in geographical research. But what facilitates individual adaptive behavior? How does the performance of government intervention affect such behavior? Drawing on political economy, environmental psychology, and climate justice perspectives, we explore how perceived fairness of responses to weather-related extreme events affects the public and private distribution of responsibility…
The utility of Google Trends as a tool for evaluating flooding in data‐scarce places
Google Trends (GT) offers a historical database of global internet searches with the potential to complement conventional records of environmental hazards, especially in regions where formal hydrometeorological data are scarce. We evaluate the extent to which GT can discern heavy rainfall and floods in Kenya and Uganda during the period 2014 to 2018. We triangulate counts of flood searches from GT with available rainfall records and media reports…
Unawareness of Smell Loss in Normal Aging and Alzheimer's Disease: Discrepancy between Self-Reported and Diagnosed Smell Sensitivity
Awareness of loss in smell sensitivity was assessed in 80 normal elderly subjects, 80 patients with probable Alzheimer's disease (AD), and 80 patients with sinusitis by comparing measured smell sensitivity to questionnaire-based, self-reported sensitivity. Both AD patients and sinusitis patients had significantly poorer diagnosed smell sensitivity than the normal elderly. Both patient groups had thresholds which on average were about nine times m…
Adapting to climate change: Insights on being better prepared for Ireland’s future climate
Climate change is already impacting Ireland, through rising temperatures, more frequent extreme weather events, and increasing risks such as coastal erosion and flooding. Volume 3 of the Irish Climate Change Assessment Report (ICCA), launched in 2024, synthesises extensive research on past and projected climate-change impacts and provides a roadmap for being prepared for Ireland’s future climate. While climate action nationally has been focused o…
Health and wellbeing implications of adaptation to flood risk
Adaptation strategies to ameliorate the impacts of climate change are increasing in scale and scope around the world, with interventions becoming a part of daily life for many people. Though the implications of climate impacts for health and wellbeing are well documented, to date, adaptations are largely evaluated by financial cost and their effectiveness in reducing risk. Looking across different forms of adaptation to floods, we use existing li…
Latent heat must be visible in climate communications
Anthropogenic forcing is driving energy accumulation in the Earth system, including increases in the sensible heat content of the atmosphere, as measured by dry‐bulb temperature—the metric that is almost universally used for communications about climate change. The atmosphere is also moistening, though, representing an accumulation of latent heat, which is partly concealed by dry‐bulb temperature trends. We highlight that, consistent with basic t…
Unawareness of Smell Loss in Normal Aging and Alzheimer's Disease: Discrepancy between Self-Reported and Diagnosed Smell Sensitivity
Awareness of loss in smell sensitivity was assessed in 80 normal elderly subjects, 80 patients with probable Alzheimer's disease (AD), and 80 patients with sinusitis by comparing measured smell sensitivity to questionnaire-based, self-reported sensitivity. Both AD patients and sinusitis patients had significantly poorer diagnosed smell sensitivity than the normal elderly. Both patient groups had thresholds which on average were about nine times m…
Patients' health-related quality-of-life and health state values for motor neurone disease/amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
The reliability of an ‘off‐the‐shelf’ conceptual rainfall runoff model for use in climate impact assessment: Uncertainty quantification using Latin hypercube sampling
Much uncertainty is derived from the application of conceptual rainfall runoff models. In this paper, HYSIM, an ‘off‐the‐shelf’ conceptual rainfall runoff model, is applied to a suite of catchments throughout Ireland in preparation for use in climate impact assessment. Parameter uncertainty is assessed using the GLUE methodology. Given the lack of source code available for the model, parameter sampling is carried out using Latin hypercube samplin…
Sharing the Pain: Perceptions of Fairness Affect Private and Public Response to Hazards
Structural causes of vulnerability to hazards are well established in geographical research. But what facilitates individual adaptive behavior? How does the performance of government intervention affect such behavior? Drawing on political economy, environmental psychology, and climate justice perspectives, we explore how perceived fairness of responses to weather-related extreme events affects the public and private distribution of responsibility…
Super Storm Desmond: A process-based assessment
Super' Storm Desmond broke meteorological and hydrological records during a record warm year in the British-Irish Isles (BI). The severity of the storm may be a harbinger of expected changes to regional hydroclimate as global temperatures continue to rise. Here, we adopt a process-based approach to investigate the potency of Desmond, and explore the extent to which climate change may have been a contributory factor. Through an Eulerian assessment…
Place attachment, disruption and transformative adaptation
This paper explores place disruption, where transformative adaptation was proposed for flood risk management, by examining: a) the relationships between place attachment, place-related symbolic meanings, place-protective interpretative responses and attitudinal responses, and b) evaluation of governance processes. Questionnaires were administered to residents in Clontarf, County Dublin, Ireland in 2014 (n = 280) in the aftermath of community resi…
Changing climate both increases and decreases European river floods
Long-term precipitation in Southwestern Europe reveals no clear trend attributable to anthropogenic forcing
We present a long-term assessment of precipitation trends in Southwestern Europe (1850–2018) using data from multiple sources, including observations, gridded datasets and global climate model experiments. Contrary to previous investigations based on shorter records, we demonstrate, using new long-term, quality controlled precipitation series, the lack of statistically significant long-term decreasing trends in precipitation for the region. Rathe…
Monitoring and moderating extreme indoor temperatures in low-income urban communities
Climate change presents significant threats to human health, especially for low-income urban communities in the Global South. Despite numerous studies of heat stress, surprisingly little is known about the temperatures actually encountered by people in their homes, or the benefits of affordable adaptations. This paper examines indoor air temperature measurements gathered from 47 living rooms within eight low-income communities of Accra and Tamale…
The impacts of and responses to place loss in a coastal community in Ireland
This paper explores the impact of place loss due to the loss of a beach from coastal erosion in the community of Courtown, Co. Wexford, Ireland. Using in-depth walking interviews and photo-elicitation, we investigate (i) the experiences and emotional challenges of place loss; (ii) the impacts of place loss and adaptive actions on people–place relationships and; (iii) how individuals re-imagine the future of place following loss. We find that plac…
Latent heat must be visible in climate communications
Anthropogenic forcing is driving energy accumulation in the Earth system, including increases in the sensible heat content of the atmosphere, as measured by dry‐bulb temperature—the metric that is almost universally used for communications about climate change. The atmosphere is also moistening, though, representing an accumulation of latent heat, which is partly concealed by dry‐bulb temperature trends. We highlight that, consistent with basic t…
The utility of Google Trends as a tool for evaluating flooding in data‐scarce places
Google Trends (GT) offers a historical database of global internet searches with the potential to complement conventional records of environmental hazards, especially in regions where formal hydrometeorological data are scarce. We evaluate the extent to which GT can discern heavy rainfall and floods in Kenya and Uganda during the period 2014 to 2018. We triangulate counts of flood searches from GT with available rainfall records and media reports…
Abrupt drought termination in the British–Irish Isles driven by high atmospheric vapour transport
During protracted dry spells, there is considerable interest from water managers, media and the public in when and how drought termination (DT) will occur. Robust answers to these questions require better understanding of the hydroclimatic drivers of DT than currently available. Integrated vapour transport (IVT) has been found to drive DT in Western North America, but evidence elsewhere is lacking. To evaluate this association for the British–Iri…
Health and wellbeing implications of adaptation to flood risk
Adaptation strategies to ameliorate the impacts of climate change are increasing in scale and scope around the world, with interventions becoming a part of daily life for many people. Though the implications of climate impacts for health and wellbeing are well documented, to date, adaptations are largely evaluated by financial cost and their effectiveness in reducing risk. Looking across different forms of adaptation to floods, we use existing li…
Future prospects for backyard skating rinks look bleak in a warming climate
Each winter, purpose‐built outdoor skating rinks are constructed in backyards and community parks across much of Canada and the northern United States. Past research projects that warmer winters will make it increasingly difficult to build outdoor rinks without artificial refrigeration. Here we build upon previous studies by mapping areas of North America where present average January temperatures are generally suitable each year for building out…
Google Trends indicators to inform water planning and drought management
Indicators are important tools for tracking the socio-environmental impacts of droughts and building resilience to climate change. We begin with an overview of metrics used for water planning and drought management, with particular emphasis on the UK. We explain how considerations of cost, immediacy, access, consistency, relevance, reliability and others denote the suitability of information for developing new indicators. We then demonstrate the …
Adapting to climate change: Insights on being better prepared for Ireland’s future climate
Climate change is already impacting Ireland, through rising temperatures, more frequent extreme weather events, and increasing risks such as coastal erosion and flooding. Volume 3 of the Irish Climate Change Assessment Report (ICCA), launched in 2024, synthesises extensive research on past and projected climate-change impacts and provides a roadmap for being prepared for Ireland’s future climate. While climate action nationally has been focused o…
Urban environmental policy transitions, drinking water supply system shifts in 1830s New York City and implications for urban climate resilience action
The objective of this paper is to examine transformational change in the New York City water supply system through the use of a framework designed to investigate urban environmental policy transitions. The framework utilises resilience theory and complex system transition theory to examine how a policy system responds to a series of stressors and shocks and then might undergo a broad system-level change — a “critical transition,” which is a non-l…
Geography (14 works) · Climate change (12 works) · Environmental Science (11 works) · Meteorology (8 works) · Climatology (7 works) · Geology (7 works) · Flood myth (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Flood Risk Assessment and Management (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works)