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Blaž Gasparini @blazgaspa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A bit of a delayed message, but I spent a great week visiting MISU at Stockholm University, connecting with old friends, and getting to know the vibrant department better!

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Blaž Gasparini @blazgaspa.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Was just wondering where in that range 2026 would appear and how does it compare to 2003. Thanks Erich for the plot!

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Blaž Gasparini @blazgaspa.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I'm glad to have made it to Nairobi for this very special workshop! www.cloudsfor.africa

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Blaž Gasparini @blazgaspa.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

From a team retreat to the Gordon Research Conference on Geoengineering in Maine, then NYC, Princeton, and ETH Zurich for the IAC ETH 25th anniversary—before heading back to the office. Wrapped up with a talk for the INCUS community. What a great start to the summer!

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Blaž Gasparini @blazgaspa.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Day 6 of "one cloud a day" series: thin ice clouds over midlevel clouds (cloud top temperature of about -15°C) near the Labrador region. Excited to see @wbmol.bsky.social paper looking at similar situations later this year

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Blaž Gasparini @blazgaspa.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Day 5 of "one cloud a day" series Congestus anvils over the western N Atlantic, NE of Newfoundland

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Blaž Gasparini @blazgaspa.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Day 4 of "one cloud a day" Shallow convection - more and less organized - somewhere south of Greenland

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Blaž Gasparini @blazgaspa.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Day 3 of "one cloud a day" series. Very nice gravity wave clouds over the English Channel

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Blaž Gasparini @blazgaspa.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Day 2 of "one cloud a day": thunderstorm towering above a sea of midlevel clouds, somewhere SE of Paris

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Blaž Gasparini @blazgaspa.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

One cloud a day series from the flight yesterday: today - thunderstorm behind Paris

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Blaž Gasparini @blazgaspa.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Very nice views on pretty explosive convection south of Vienna when flying just a bit north of it earlier today! No surprise, given the high CAPE sounding

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Kai Kornhuber @kornhuber.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Don't miss the @iiasa.ac.at AI for Climate Science Seminar feat. @aikovoigt.bsky.social & Max Meindl @univie.ac.at (Wed 3rd, 2pm): 🧠 ”How much climate data do we need? Machine learning approaches for evaluating high-resolution climate models” 👩‍💻 Info & Registration: iiasa.ac.at/events/jun-2...

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uwz.at @uwz.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

In Linz wurde heute ein #Staubteufel beobachtet. Solche Kleintromben entstehen bei starker bodennaher Überhitzung der Luft: Thermikblasen lösen sich vom Boden und steigen auf. Wenn bereits eine geringe Rotation vorhanden ist, wird diese durch die Streckung des Wirbels verstärkt (Pirouetteneffekt).

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Ember @ember-energy.org · 14/05/2026

Germany had 2.5 GW of operational grid-scale batteries in 2025, the largest fleet in the EU 🔋 Another 10 GW is in the pipeline. Had that capacity been online in 2025, Germany could have avoided €830 million in gas purchases and solar redispatch costs. ember-energy.org/lat...

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Blaž Gasparini @blazgaspa.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

A great EGU26! We're almost at the end! Here are pictures of posters presented by our MSc students focusing on ice clouds & convection: Marijan Trogrlić, Shirin Hamzeh Marand, Johannes Elias Hobiger Was great to see them present and getting increasingly confident! @univie.ac.at @egu-as.bsky.social

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Blaž Gasparini @blazgaspa.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

As always, peak of my science year and the perk of living in Vienna: a beautiful ~8 km bike ride over Donauinsel to @egu.eu conference venue!

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Blaž Gasparini @blazgaspa.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

The most inspiring week for science here in Vienna continued yesterday with a great colloquium talk on convective mass flux by @andrewilwilliams.bsky.social He even made use of our blackboard!

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Blaž Gasparini @blazgaspa.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

After a strong start at Lange Nacht der Forschung, the best 2 weeks of the year for science in Vienna continued today with our institute's internal pre-EGU poster showcase, also known as Posters & Pizza @ Exner

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Blaž Gasparini @blazgaspa.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Our pre-EGU ice cloud workshop is rapidly approaching, with speakers on day1 and plenty of time for discussions on day2. Thinking about what we want to achieve now, and have a question Why do you think small-scale processes aren't considered as interesting as some larger-scale climate concepts?

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Blaž Gasparini @blazgaspa.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

The most fun part of LNF26 (both for the visitors, particularly kids; but also for me) was to demonstrate again and again cloud formation! Huge thanks to Sophie Schäringer to prepare it! So what's going on there? Hint: pressure changes, pV = nRT, Clausius-Clapeyron www.noaa.gov/office-educa...

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Blaž Gasparini @blazgaspa.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Had a lot of fun last night with our Meteo & Climate team at the LNF26!

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Florent Brient @florentbrient.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

A Song of Clouds and Dust

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Blaž Gasparini @blazgaspa.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

I wish this came ~2 months earlier 50-70 cm of snow on ground in the hills SW of Vienna, above > 900 m, photo from yesterday, near Annaberg...see also their weather station at 900 m (www.lawinenwarndienst-niederoesterreich.at/lawis-und-st...)

snowy landscape, near Annaberg, Niederösstereich

snow and precipitation, Annaberg, Niederösstereich

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Manuel Oberhuber @manueloberhuber.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Die Niederschlagsbilanz der letzten 3 Tage - Vergleich zwischen Modell und Messung. Fazit: Bescheiden. Im Großteil von Österreich ist deutlich weniger Regen und Schnee gefallen als berechnet. Und zwar nicht nur bei diesem Modell, sondern auch bei allen anderen. Selten, aber doch kommt sowas vor.

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Blaž Gasparini @blazgaspa.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Yay, we seem to have inspired a new cool cloud physics event, our first inofficial spin-up Excited to be part of it, and thanks to the organizers for giving me space to talk about career and beyond it! @mathilderitman.bsky.social

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Blaž Gasparini @blazgaspa.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

I realized I haven't posted a cloud picture since a while. There you go with a view in direction Dachstein from Saturday, before the cold front, with already a pretty moist troposphere, despite mildly föhny conditions

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Blaž Gasparini @blazgaspa.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Enjoying a rare good visibility moment riding down a substantially < 30° slope in Langtaufers, near (snow)bo(a)rders of IT/South Tyrol & AT/Tyrol & SUI/Graubünden

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Blaž Gasparini @blazgaspa.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

I'm super happy to see this one out! For those interested, please take a look at the well-prepared Jupyter notebook with the model Nick prepared (link in paper) and start playing with the model yourself!

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Blaž Gasparini @blazgaspa.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Best avalanche app of all! (though also curious to see how the www.skitourenguru.com plans for an app materialize)

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Skitourenguru

Skitourenguru supports you in planning a suitable ski tour with low avalanche risk.

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Cristi Proistosescu @cristiproist.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

I've seen several Big Climate Accounts™ post about how the recent winter storm was made worse by climate change. It's a convenient narrative. s But what is "worse"? Colder temperatures? More snow? More freezing rain? Is there any primary literature supporting the idea of worse snowstorms? 1/

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Blaž Gasparini @blazgaspa.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Who says January is boring? We had a festive end of the month at the Info Coffee at the img.univie.ac.at!

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Blaž Gasparini @blazgaspa.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I realized it's been a while since I last posted a cloud photo. There it is, a panorama of this very dry but cold winter in the NE Alps, together with some cool lenticularis and stratiform clouds from the edge of action of a Mediterranean cyclone...

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Oliver Morton, Eater of Sun @eaterofsun.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

This would be a very good week for anyone who has not already abandoned the Mercator projection for maps of the world to do so

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Blaž Gasparini @blazgaspa.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

boah....better than my views of it in Kiruna in October!

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Blaž Gasparini @blazgaspa.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

A bit with a delay, but it was quite an aurora night in midlatitudes...even visible from Vienna a tiny bit (no good photos though)...here seen from a mountain in E Austria.

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Blaž Gasparini @blazgaspa.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

24 hours more time to submit your "Upgoer5" talk. Using only 1000 most common words in English! Last year was super fun! (note: it does not count towards the abstract limit, you can still have a normal one) www.linkedin.com/posts/marina... @egu.eu @egu-as.bsky.social

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#egu | Marina Dütsch

Last year, the Up-Goer Five challenge premiered at the #EGU General Assembly. This year, it's back! The session invites speakers to explain their research using only the 1000 most common English words...

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European Severe Storms Laboratory @essl-ecss.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Is damaging hail getting worse? An ESSL-led study published in Nature Geoscience finds that very large hail is modelled to occur most frequently in South America, the United States, and South Africa, but Europe shows the strongest increase in very large hail frequency. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

A map of the world showing the modeled trend of large hail between 1950 and 2023.

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Blaž Gasparini @blazgaspa.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Look at those values close to -30°C today morning!

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Blaž Gasparini @blazgaspa.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Annual pilgrimage to the computer gods done. Better do it early in the year, and hope for their mercy for the rest of it :)

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Blaž Gasparini @blazgaspa.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

After the snow-bringing dark bora aka bora scura in Trieste/Trst, a colorful last sunset of the vacation

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Blaž Gasparini @blazgaspa.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

4-year postdoctoral fellowships for women @univie.ac.at The application consists of a short (3-page) research statement only. Feel free to get in touch if you’re interested or would like to discuss potential projects. careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e... Application deadline: 2 March 2026

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E-STEEM: Postdoctoral Positions for Women in STEM and Economics - University of Vienna

Supporting women in science: Postdoctoral positions in STEM and Economics as part of the E-STEEM programme. Apply between January and March 2026.

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Blaž Gasparini @blazgaspa.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Christmas magic is when you suddenly get a substantial chunk of your supercomputing cluster for the km-scale global climate simulations; Thank you @asc.ac.at ! @eurocc-austria.at

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Manuel Oberhuber @manueloberhuber.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

~ Update Neuschnee ~ Die Hotspots: Höhere Lagen der West- & Südsteiermark (teilweise über 30cm), Bucklige Welt und Umgebung, Teile des Waldviertels. Wien und Graz liegen an der Grenze, im Südosten der beiden Städte fällt wohl nur wenig Schnee, in höheren Lagen wird es schön weiß.

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Blaž Gasparini @blazgaspa.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Did Hunga Tonga eruption cool or warm the climate? Is it still influencing it? Abig report on it is out! Including contributions from our Viennese colleague @kuchaale.bsky.social

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Blaž Gasparini @blazgaspa.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Finally getting out of the fog for a while!

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wetterblogAT @wetterblogat.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Erstmals seit 17 Tagen hat sich heute Vormittag in #Linz (OÖ) mal wieder "länger" die Sonne blicken lassen - für exakt 53 Minuten. Es ist dies die längste trübe Phase in der Linzer Messgeschichte (Beginn: Linz Stadt 1992, Linz Flughafen 1961).

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