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Earth system scientist @UFZ & Prof @TUdresden, expert on compound weather and climate events
Herzlichen GlĂĽckwunsch! Eine sehr verdiente Auszeichnung fĂĽr eine herausragende Wissenschaftlerin und ausgezeichnete Mentorin!
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Bob Kopp
27 days ago
I had an engagement with blogger, failed California gubernatorial candidate, and self-identified reporter Michael Shellenberger this past week, which started out being about this new paper being heralded by climate skeptics as disproving global sea-level acceleration. (LONG đź§µ)
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Our new study on how large floods will change in Europe under climate change, led by
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about 1 month ago
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Jonas Jägermeyr
about 1 month ago
I am looking for a Postdoc to join my team at
@climate.columbia.edu
and NASA GISS. We will be working with Corteva Agrisceince and advance our understanding of historical and future crop breeding using crop models. Exciting and ambitious, please share!
academic.careers.columbia.edu#!/168193
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Academic Search and Recruiting
https://academic.careers.columbia.edu/#!/168193
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Erich Fischer
about 1 month ago
Numerical weather prediction models (ECMWF IFS) still outperform AI weather models in forecasting record-breaking hot and cold extremes and unseen wind extremes Preprint
arxiv.org/abs/2508.15724
with Zhongwei Zhang
@erichfischer.bsky.social
@zscheischlerjak.bsky.social
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Numerical models outperform AI weather forecasts of record-breaking extremes
Artificial intelligence (AI)-based models are revolutionizing weather forecasting and have surpassed leading numerical weather prediction systems on various benchmark tasks. However, their ability to ...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15724
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ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig
2 months ago
🏅Outstanding Publication! What if
#ExtremeFloods
are driven by compounding factors? Using
#LightGBM
+
#SHAP
to quantify how rainfall, soil moisture, snowpack & temperature interact, this study reveals "The Secret Network of Extreme Floods" đź”—:
https://scads.ai/the-secret-network-of-extreme-floods/
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5 months ago
To what extent does human-induced climate change contribute to global extreme wildfires? In our latest study, we quantified the contribution of human-induced climate change to over 700 observed extreme wildfires globally.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Growing human-induced climate change fingerprint in regional weekly fire extremes - npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
npj Climate and Atmospheric Science - Growing human-induced climate change fingerprint in regional weekly fire extremes
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41612-025-01021-z
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Andreia F. S. Ribeiro
5 months ago
On International Firefighters’ Day, happy to share our latest research about challenges in international firefighting cooperation due to increasing fire weather season overlap between Australia and North America.
doi.org/10.1029/2024...
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Lily-belle Sweet
5 months ago
Transdisciplinary coordination is essential for advancing agricultural modelling with machine learning. The opportunities are great, but to avoid pitfalls, we need to establish benchmarks, evaluation criteria and best practices. Our perspective:
www.cell.com/one-earth/fu...
@cp-oneearth.bsky.social
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Transdisciplinary coordination is essential for advancing agricultural modeling with machine learning
Crop models play a key role in understanding and improving the climate-change resilience of food systems. If appropriately used, machine learning can help tackle some of the critical challenges of agr...
https://www.cell.com/one-earth/fulltext/S2590-3322(25)00059-4
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UFZ
5 months ago
#Klimawandel
erhöht das Risiko gleichzeitiger Waldbrände, zeigen deutsche und australische Forschende in ihrer Studie. Die sog. Feuerwetter überlappen sich zunehmend und erschweren so staatenübergreifende Hilfe.
#UFZ
@zscheischlerjak.bsky.social
@afsribeiro.bsky.social
www.ufz.de/index.php?de...
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Aletta Bonn
6 months ago
🎺
#job
alert: Are you interested in
#Biodiversity
and
#Health
linkages? Come and work with us in our lab at
@ufz.de
@idiv-research.bsky.social
apply online via UFZ recruitment portal until 18 May 2025 👇
lnkd.in/eQmcKDQU
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Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
6 months ago
Our 2024 climate chronicles have just been published! Check out the Collection:
www.nature.com/collections/...
Thread below details all articles and their take-home messages. [1/n]
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Climate chronicles
Climate chronicles brings together Nature Reviews Earth & Environment's annual series of 'Year in Review' articles.
https://www.nature.com/collections/ghbicfgjcd
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Ed Hawkins
6 months ago
Looking for a new postdoc position in climate? Help us build a reanalysis-based storyline approach to consider how individual extreme events and their impacts are altered in different climates. Based in Edinburgh as part of collaborative project:
elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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Postdoctoral Researcher in impact attribution from extreme weather events
We seek a postdoctoral research associate (PDRA) for a 33-month position to work on the UK NERC-funded pushing the frontiers grant “Attributable impacts from extreme weather events”.
https://elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1001/job/12255
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Ken Caldeira
7 months ago
If someone would like to do a postdoc with me on the Stanford campus aimed at thinking about allocation of resources across different domains (climate, environment, food, health, education, wealth transfer, etc) to improve human welfare (balancing near-term and long-term goals), please contact me.
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Thomas Frölicher
7 months ago
📢 Postdoc Opportunity: Ocean Tipping Points & Impacts! We're hiring a postdoc in my group at the University of Bern, Switzerland, to study ocean tipping points and their impacts. The position is part of HEurope project TipESM (
@tipesm.bsky.social
). Feel free to reach out with any questions. 🌊
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Ed Hawkins
7 months ago
Interested in volunteering to be an author for the IPCC AR7 Working Groups? Nomination process open until 17th April:
apps.ipcc.ch/nominations/...
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IPCC Nominations - Authors
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Douglas Maraun
7 months ago
Like to develop your own research profile? Work on a permanent contract in a diverse, inspiring & supportive work environment? We seek to appoint a scientist working on climate hazards for risk assessments & on data management & analysis. Join us at Wegener Center:
jobs.uni-graz.at/en/jobs/6015...
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Tagesschau Bot
7 months ago
1,5 Grad-Schwelle möglicherweise dauerhaft überschritten
#Klimawandel
#Erderwärmung
#1,5Grad
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1,5 Grad-Schwelle möglicherweise dauerhaft überschritten
Im Jahr 2024 lag die Erderwärmung erstmals 1,5 Grad Celsius über dem vorindustriellen Niveau: Laut einer neuen Studie ist das keine Ausnahme, sondern ein langfristiger Trend.
https://www.tagesschau.de/wissen/klima/globale-erwaermung-100.html
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Adam Sobel
8 months ago
People may not understand just how important federal science research funding is to the prosperity of the nation. I tried to explain it, because it's under unprecedented and direct assault.
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DER SPIEGEL
8 months ago
Das 1,5-Grad-Ziel ist gefährdet, wie aktuelle Berechnungen zeigen. Trotzdem rät Klimaforscher Emanuele Bevacqua, daran festzuhalten: Noch sei es möglich, die Erderwärmung zu verlangsamen.
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Studie zu den Pariser Klimazielen: Hat die 1,5-Grad-Ära begonnen, Herr Bevacqua?
Das 1,5-Grad-Ziel ist gefährdet, wie aktuelle Berechnungen zeigen. Trotzdem rät Klimaforscher Emanuele Bevacqua, daran festzuhalten: Noch sei es möglich, die Erderwärmung zu verlangsamen.
https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/natur/studie-zu-den-pariser-klimazielen-hat-die-1-5-grad-aera-begonnen-herr-bevacqua-a-0511d6b6-3fac-4bf8-baf6-ee47943ab1b1?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky#ref=rss
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Peter Jelinek
8 months ago
Was der Klimawissenschaftler Emanuele Bevacqua sagt. Wäre doch mal schön, wenn wir dazu eine Talkshow hätten, oder
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Emanuele Bevacqua
8 months ago
In Nature Climate Change, we show that a year above 1.5 °C signals that Earth is most probably within the 20-year period that will reach the Paris Agreement limit.
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A year above 1.5 °C signals that Earth is most probably within the 20-year period that will reach the Paris Agreement limit - Nature Climate Change
What a first year with temperature 1.5 °C above the pre-industrial baseline implies for long-term temperature goals is unclear. Here the authors show that such a first year above the baseline is highl...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-025-02246-9
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Excellent thread on our new paper in Nature Climate Change on what a year above 1.5°C means for the Paris Agreements lower temperature target
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Mariana Madruga de Brito
8 months ago
🚨 We’ll soon be hiring a 3-year postdoc to join our Leipzig lab on climate discourses 🌍🔍 Our Working group bridges
#NLP
, social science, and environmental research to explore how climate change, public discourse & political action interact. Stay tuned!
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Hayley Fowler
9 months ago
I'm currently advertising for 2 post-doc positions: (1) role of natural climate variability in modulating climate projections (2) developing a weather generator for UK and Ireland for climate projections -
jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastl...
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Research Assistant/Associate in Climate
Research Assistant/Associate in Climate
https://jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastle-Research-AssistantAssociate-in-Climate/1151718801/
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Altmetric
10 months ago
THREAD This Is The Story Of The The Pernicious Rise of AI-Generated Papers and their Online Impact An Incomplete History Told In The Voice of Documentarian Adam Curtis 1/31
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Peter Watson
10 months ago
PhD opportunity at Bristol: "Machine Learning for Understanding Extreme Weather in a Changing Climate". Please share with potential applicants. Deadline is Jan 31 12:00.
www.bristol.ac.uk/geography/co...
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Reto Knutti
11 months ago
Redrawing the global warming stripes. In a new paper led by Sebastian Sippel published in Nature today, we show that the early 20th century global ocean surface temperatures and thereby global mean surface temperature were warmer than previously thought. Thread... (1/13)
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Robert McSweeney
11 months ago
Today,
@carbonbrief.org
has published the latest, and most comprehensive, update to our interactive map of extreme weather attribution. The redesigned map now includes almost 750 extreme events and trends from more than 600 studies.
interactive.carbonbrief.org/attribution-...
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Mapped: How climate change affects extreme weather around the world - Carbon Brief
Attribution studies calculate whether, and by how much, climate change affected the intensity, frequency or impact of extremes – Carbon Brief has mapped every published study on how climate change has...
https://interactive.carbonbrief.org/attribution-studies/index.html
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Glen Peters
11 months ago
📢Global Carbon Budget 2024📢 Despite some predicting a peak in global fossil CO2 emissions, we estimate growth of 0.8% [-0.3% to 1.9%] in 2024. Maybe a peak next year? Is it all bad news, or can we find some good news?
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Prof Friederike Otto
11 months ago
We Europeans need to practice survival in a rapidly changing climate - my opinion piece, focussed on Spain, but could equally have been written 3 years ago after the deadly floods in Germany . We've not learned enough & that costs lives and livelihoods.
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Why did so many die in Spain? Because Europe still hasn't accepted the realities of extreme weather | Friederike Otto
Severe flooding is, unfortunately, inevitable. What isn’t inevitable is how ready we are, says Friederike Otto of World Weather Attribution
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/04/spain-deaths-europe-realities-extreme-weather-flooding
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Flavio Lehner
11 months ago
New perspective paper on how weather/climate extreme event attribution could be combined with the science of disaster risk reduction to make it more useful - includes case studies.
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
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Broadening the scope of anthropogenic influence in extreme event attribution - IOPscienceSearch
Broadening the scope of anthropogenic influence in extreme event attribution, Aglaé Jézéquel, Ana Bastos, Davide Faranda, Joyce Kimutai, Natacha Le Grix, Anna M Wilson, Samuel Rufat, Theodore G Shepherd, Rupert F Stuart-Smith, Anne F Van Loon, Emanuele Bevacqua, Fabio D’Andrea, Flavio Lehner, Elisabeth A Lloyd, Julia Moemken, Alexandre M Ramos, Sebastian Sippel, Jakob Zscheischler
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2752-5295/ad7527/meta
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Benjamin Cook
11 months ago
Climate change intensified the 2022 European drought "human-induced global warming contributed to over 30% of the drought intensity and its spatial extent via enhanced evaporation"
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Direct and lagged climate change effects intensified the 2022 European drought - Nature Geoscience
An attribution analysis using observations, hydrological models and climate models suggests that both direct and lagged effects of climate warming contributed to Europe experiencing the highest observ...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-024-01559-2
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Robb Jnglin Wills
about 1 year ago
🚨Postdoc in Climate Dynamics at ETH Zurich🚨 We are hiring a postdoc to work on understanding projected future changes in the atmospheric circulation and climate. The scope is broad, with flexibility to work on questions aligned with your interests/experience.
jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...
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Postdoc Position in Climate Dynamics
https://jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOPG_ethz_9OyZdnZXUZO7gTRynL
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Charlie Koven
about 1 year ago
Great new paper by Gordon Bonan and others on the deep historical legacies that limit how we think about the biosphere within the climate system, and the need to more fully represent diverse ways of understanding nature in the face of climate change.
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
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Jonathan Wider
over 1 year ago
A preprint I’ve been working on together with Olivier Pasche, Zhongwei Zhang,
@zscheischlerjak.bsky.social
, and Sebastian Engelke is out:
arxiv.org/abs/2404.17652
. We compared ML-based weather models and ECMWF’s HRES in case studies on 3 recent high-impact extreme events! Summary & a few thoughts 🧵👇
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Gavin Schmidt
over 1 year ago
I have a commentary in Nature on our disquieting inability to work out why 2023 was so warm.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Climate models can’t explain 2023’s huge heat anomaly — we could be in uncharted territory
Taking into account all known factors, the planet warmed 0.2 °C more last year than climate scientists expected. More and better data are urgently needed. Taking into account all known factors, the pl...
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00816-z
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Laura Suarez-Gutierrez
almost 2 years ago
The Compound Event Network is on bsky! Give them a follow to keep up with the most recent research on compound and cascading climate hazards and risks. ➡️
@compoundnet.bsky.social
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Lily-belle Sweet
almost 2 years ago
Researchers often use interpretable machine learning tools like feature importances to identify drivers, but cross-validation strategy used can affect these results: Our open access study in AIES
doi.org/10.1175/AIES...
(with co-authors Jakob Zscheischler, Christoph MĂĽller, Mohit Anand)
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Cross-Validation Strategy Impacts the Performance and Interpretation of Machine Learning Models
Abstract Machine learning algorithms are able to capture complex, nonlinear, interacting relationships and are increasingly used to predict agricultural yield variability at regional and national scal...
https://doi.org/10.1175/AIES-D-23-0026.1
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