🧑‍🏫Ukrainian STEM talents visited us to learn how #AI aids #ClimateChange adaptation🌳lecture by @wouterdorigo.bsky.social & Emanuel Büechi Great to engage with these motivated students🧠 Thanks to @aithyra.bsky.social, MmF & Dmytro Rzhemovskyi for the neat organization👏 mmf.univie.ac.at/ai-science-s...

Our 💯 hours to #SaveAmericasForecasts starts tomorrow! Tune in to hear over 200+ US meteorologists and climate scientists share the importance of federally funded weather and climate research! wclivestream.com

🚨📄 Paper alert! 🎉 Congrats to long-term collaborator Richard de Jeu on his new paper unlocking Ka-band microwave for land-surface temp & vegetation monitoring. 🌍📡 @wouterdorigo.bsky.social @ruxizotta.bsky.social 🔗 doi.org/10.3389/frsen.2025.1574072 #RemoteSensing #KaBand #VOD

🌲🍃 It's #WorldForestDay 2025 🍂🌳 📉 Forests are changing fast. This animation shows deforestation in Brazil, using Landsat and VODCA2GPP. 🌍 Long-term satellite data help us understand climate impacts and ecosystem change. 🛰️ Based on the work of @ruxizotta.bsky.social 🔗 doi.org/10.5194/essd...

We can also add Austria to this sad list of winter wildfires: noe.orf.at/stories/3296...

Gepatschferner (Kaunertal, Tirol, AT) 2020 | 2024 Demise of the largest glacier in Tirol over the last 5 years! 😱 When the landscape is evolving at a non-geological speed... 🔥 📽️ Martin Mergili (Uni Graz), Stefan Haselberger (Uni Wien/PHUSICOS)

Hi - I'd like to share this story of what is happening at NOAA GFDL, where some of my colleagues and I worked until the mass firings at NOAA last week. "...the birthplace of weather and climate forecasting"

Zeigt unseren Kolleg*innen in den #USA unsere Unterstützung! #aufstehn für freie, unzensierte und zukunftsorientierte #WissenSchafft. #MarchforScience in #Wien: Freitag, 7 März 13:00 vor der @univie.ac.at @de.scientists4future.org at.scientists4future.org/2025/02/24/7...

Record low snowcover in the Alps! 🔥 At Zugspitze (highest GER mountain), the previous 145 cm record low (1972) for a 1st march has been smashed today: 110 cm! ❄️😱 Really worrying about the drought this summer (not to mention the glaciers...) 📈 🙏 @jojoski2.bsky.social

Your dignity honors the bravery of the Ukrainian people. Be strong, be brave, be fearless. You are never alone, dear President Zelenskyy. We will continue working with you for a just and lasting peace.

Distressing snow conditions across the Alps! 🔥 At (what should be) the peak of the winter season! 😱 91 cm at Rudolfshütte, 2317 m (Salzburg, AT) 17 cm at Ristolas, 1665 m (Queyras, FR) 1 cm at Sella Nevea, 1124 (Julian Alps, IT) @wetterblogat.bsky.social @gaetanheymes.bsky.social @aametsoc

📣🎓PhD Defense: 7 Mar 2025, 16:00 CET 🌍🛰️ Zdenko Heyvaert (KU Leuven & @tuwien.bsky.social, @geodepartment.bsky.social) will defend his PhD on 📖“Continental assimilation of satellite-based soil moisture & vegetation in land-atmosphere coupling.” 📍 livestream.kuleuven.be?pin=940064 #Climers #PhD

BP: from "Beyond Petroleum" to "Back to Petroleum" www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Jetzt ist es offiziell: Der schneeärmste Winter jemals in #Wien gemessen ***Now it'sofficial*** The least snow ever recorded in a winter in #Vienna We had the pleasure of celebrating 1 cm. In total.

Früher haben wir Wintersportler immer gesagt: der Jänner bringt die Kälte, der Februar den Schnee. Dieses Muster lässt sich heute nur ganz schwer erkennen... #dürre #klimawandel #drought #österreich #geosphere

✔ A growing number of Jupyter Notebooks are helping climate researchers discover the potential of the #ESA #CCI data via the toolbox. They can access and analyse more than four decades of global CCI climate data and benefit from user examples. More info: climate.esa.int/en/data/#/da...

This is why our work on climate monitoring is so important. And we will keep on doing so, especially in times of a growing number of incompetent politicians that tell you it's all a hoax @soniaseneviratne.bsky.social @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

'Glacier Mass Balance Intercomparison Exercise' ❄️🧊 Huge effort to gather mass loss estimate outside ice sheets btw 2000 and 2023 📈 Since 2000, 5% ice volume lost globally (273 gigatonnes/yr) 🌊 Guess who 'won'? 🥇 Alps and Pyrenees lost 39% of their 2000 volume! 😲😱 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our @climers.bsky.social group is looking to fill two summer positions for students: www.tuwien.at/en/mg/geo/ne... www.tuwien.at/en/mg/geo/ne...

A constant reminder that even if CO₂ emissions decreased annually as much as they did during the pandemic lockdown from now to 2030, we still wouldn't meet our emission target to keep global warming below 1.5°C.

Saw a skeet from @neilrkaye.bsky.social on a bulletin board today. Also, if you are 30 years old, more than half of all fossil fuel CO₂ emissions have occurred in your lifetime.

So far, this winter has been exceptionally #dry and #warm in #Austria, leading to the worst skitouring conditions I ever encountered in February

We got a message from the university to remove any use of the "DEI", "diversity", "equity", or "inclusion" from all public-facing documents. They said that even "biodiversity" is being flagged by the federal government. We live in the dumbest timeline.

This is really scary. I have no words for the madness happening in the US right now. Uncertain times for our dear colleagues across the pond working on #climatechange

Really cool #climate #earthobservation position @esa.int Who knows one day you might be telling us what to do 😉

Falls du es noch nicht getan hast: Sparmaßnahmen von #FPÖVP könnten das Aus für das #Klimaticket bedeuten. Das wäre ein Rückschritt für Klimaschutz und belastend für Pendler_innen. Unterschreibt hier für den Erhalt des Klimatickets: mein.aufstehn.at/petitions/da...

Great paper by our former @climers.bsky.social team member Matthias!

How are #soil moisture #trends and #droughts represented in @esaclimate.bsky.social, @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social and reanalysis products? With @soniaseneviratne.bsky.social @climers.bsky.social hess.copernicus.org/articles/29/...

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How imitation moves: Effects of movement congruency and temporal contingency on affiliation, social influence, empathy and prosocial behavior: http://osf.io/fd364/

Our latest dataset just released: global soil moisture from 1978-2024: climate.esa.int/en/news-even... @esaclimate.bsky.social @climers.bsky.social

Southern Pfandlscharten Glacier 1911 | 2024 Jürgen Merz This small west-flowing glacier located in the Hohe Tauern range (AT) has now completely disappeared ✝️ During the LIA (~1850), all the cirque was filled with 1.2 km² of ice down to an elevation of 2350 m! ❄️ 📷 @glacionaut/IG

I get that COPs are the best we have but they are infuriating - it is so hard to simply keep past commitments let alone accelerate action at the speed and scale required to have any hope of achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement. Shame on the countries that show up to obstruct rather than act.

I'm delighted to be again on the #Clarivate highly-cited researcher list, but this recognition should go to the entire #CLIMERS team at @geodepartment.bsky.social and to the many other great collaborations we have with #EO and #climate researchers around the globe. science.orf.at/stories/3227...

Let's start my Bluesky history with a blue-sky picture from my #Schneeberg hike yesterday.