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Ambrogio Volonté

@ambroeusvolonte.bsky.social
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Senior Research Fellow @ Uni of Reading Meteorology & NCAS | Sting jets💨 Cyclones (Arctic, Extratropical, Mediterranean....) 🌀 Alps🏔 Monsoons⛈️| Cycling,hiking & views all my own| Catholic, husband, dad, son

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Ambrogio Volonté @ambroeusvolonte.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Can AI weather models forecast UK windstorms well enough to be used when providing wind weather warnings? We found that they are not yet suitable to replace current NWP models, particularly when strong winds are linked to sharp fronts & smaller features. Preprint: essopenarchive.org/doi/full/10....
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Evaluating machine-learning weather prediction for UK windstorm weather warnings | ESS Open Archive
Machine-learning weather prediction (MLWP) has recently emerged as a powerful new approach, with potential to complement or even replace numerical weather prediction (NWP) within early warning systems...
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National Centre for Atmospheric Science @ncas-uk.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Following the withdrawal of funding by UKRI-NERC, we can confirm that the FAAM Airborne Laboratory will cease operations at the end of this financial year. Our immediate priority is supporting affected staff and the wider UK atmospheric science community. ncas.ac.uk/closure-of-t...
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Closure of the FAAM Airborne Laboratory - NCAS
The National Centre for Atmospheric Science can confirm that the FAAM Airborne Laboratory will cease operations at the end of this financial year, following the withdrawal of funding by UKRI-NERC.
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Ambrogio Volonté @ambroeusvolonte.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
8 days left to apply!
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Ambrogio Volonté @ambroeusvolonte.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Are you investigating the role of "Diabatic processes across scales in the extratropics"?this? Do you want to know more about it? There's a workshop for you! diabatics2026.w.uib.no We have a great invited speakers line-up (despite me being one...). Deadline for abstract submission is tomorrow!
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Diabatics 2026 workshop – Wolkersdorf, near Vienna, Austria, 28 April – 1 May 2026
The workshop is jointly organized under the auspices of the Working Group on Predictability, Dynamics and Ensemble Forecasting of the WMO’s World Weather Research Programme and the International Commission on Dynamic Meteorology of the International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences.
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Ambrogio Volonté @ambroeusvolonte.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Interested in revealing how moisture-driven surface cyclones can develop into hazardous windstorms, now and in the future? You could do it at @unirdg-met.bsky.social @ncas-uk.bsky.social, working with @benharvey.bsky.social, @jriboldi.bsky.social, Sue gray and me! jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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Research Scientist (North Atlantic Storms and Climate Change):Whiteknights Reading UK
The closing date for applications is 23.59 on 21 November 2025
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Ambrogio Volonté @ambroeusvolonte.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Really looking forward to the panel discussion with Prof Ros Cornforth (Walker Centre, Uni of Reading) Prof Sir Brian Hoskins (Uni of Reading & Imperial College London) Dr Ben Wilson (Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund) taking place @ Corpus Christi College, Oxford at 10.30 am tomorrow (1/4)
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Ambrogio Volonté @ambroeusvolonte.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
This morning Sue Gray presented our work producing the first global climatology of sting-jet extratropical cyclones: wcd.copernicus.org/articles/5/1.... Using ERA5 we analysed ~10k top intensity 1979-2022 cyclones and looked for cloud-head mesoscale instability as a proxy of sting-jet activity
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A global climatology of sting-jet extratropical cyclones
Abstract. Sting jets have been identified in the most damaging extratropical cyclones impacting northwest Europe. Unlike the cold conveyor belt and other long-lived cyclone wind jets, sting jets can l...
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Ambrogio Volonté @ambroeusvolonte.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Beautiful frosty sunrise this morning on the Gurten, above the freezing fog in Bern and with great views towards the Jungfrau group. A great start for the first day of the 10th European Storm Workshop!
Sunriseview from Gurten Ostsignal towards the Jungfrau
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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 27/01/2025
Storm Éowyn developed through a process called explosive cyclogenesis This brought the UK's highest wind gust of the season so far on Friday with 100mph gusts at Drumalbin in South Lanarkshire This view from space shows how the storm developed 👇
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Ambrogio Volonté @ambroeusvolonte.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
We've put together a little explainer on Storm Éowyn, its development, where it stands compared to other (in)famous storms and on whether future explosive cyclones could become more "sting-jetty" and diabatically driven theconversation.com/why-meteorol... @ncas-uk.bsky.social
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Why meteorologists are comparing Storm Éowyn to a bomb
Éowyn’s wind speeds are comparable with the most infamous storms of recent years and decades.
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Ambrogio Volonté @ambroeusvolonte.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Worth stressing that while storm structure, intensity, sat imagery & gust timing/location are all consistent w/ sting-jet descent, we don't know yet if it reached the ground & caused the W Ireland record gusts. The cold conveyor belt might have had a role & is responsible for the gusts over Scotland
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Ambrogio Volonté @ambroeusvolonte.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
The intensity & structure of #StormÉowyn were certainly conducive to sting-jet descent. This satellite image would be consistent with it, as would be the timing and location of the record gust. However, we can't yet say whether the cold conveyor belt also played a role there 1/2
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National Centre for Atmospheric Science @ncas-uk.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Storm Bert is set to hit the UK on Saturday, bringing strong winds, snow and rain. We spoke to Ambrogio Volonté, Senior Research Fellow at @ncas-uk.bsky.social and the University of Reading, about named storms, and found out what has been causing the cold weather. ncas.ac.uk/scientist-ex...
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Scientist explains Storm Bert and current cold snap - NCAS
Ambrogio Volonté explains what named storms are, and what is causing the current cold snap.
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