Irish Climate Analysis and Research Units (ICARUS) was established in order to improve our scientific understanding of climate change and its impacts, with particular emphasis on Ireland. This objective is achieved primarily through the analysis of past climate trends and their causes, regional climate modeling and assessing impacts for the future.

ICARUS provides key climate services, solutions, data and advice to the scientific community, policy makers and community at large, both nationally and internationally, with the most up to date scientific knowledge, relevant for a particular sector and region of interest.

ICARUS is one of the largest dedicated climate change research and modeling centres in Ireland conducting both pure and applied research, covering all aspects of climate change from regional climate modeling to impact assessments on a variety of sectors and provides a wide and diverse range of research capabilities in the climatic arena.

Personnel involved in ICARUS are recognised both nationally and internationally as having made a significant contribution to climate change research.

ICARUS is part of the Department of Geography, NUIM, and builds on over 35 years of climate change research conducted within the department.