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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 · 11/09/2026

Thanks Nick! A bit of a different question - have you ever used one of the AI models in class? I'm trying to integrate AIFS in my modeling class, and need to get some good idea, particularly for the practical exercise.

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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

Here the satellite picture of the area

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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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Blaž Gasparini @blazgaspa.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Die Wolken sind wunderschön. Man kann da rechts vielleicht sogar die durch Scherwellen verursachten Wolken erkennen. (www.srf.ch/meteo/meteo-...). Danke fürs Teilen!

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Schwerewellen - Wolken «rollen» über die Schweiz

Am Montagabend rollten sogenannte Schwerewellen über das Mittelland.

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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 · 28/04/2026

super schön, thanks for sharing!

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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

Maybe we just need to produce maybe a similar video on ice cloud physics? :) youtu.be/Luu7k6RU5Ug?...

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Cloud Feedback – Baba Brinkman Music Video

YouTube video by Baba Brinkman

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

Any thoughts beyond the cliché on observational and lab people have to talk to modelers and vice versa? [and we want to go beyond clichés!] Or is maybe microphysics too empirical of a science? Any thoughts? We reserved a full day in which our 80 participants will discuss this and other issues!

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

After all, cloud properties can be observed quite easily, as opposed to e.g. cloud feedbacks. (see one example here)

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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

Sophie is Scharinger, not with an ä, sorry!

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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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Blaž Gasparini @blazgaspa.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Nicht nur! Eine Kombo aus feuchter Luft in den höheren Schichten und Saharastaub, siehe z.B. www.meteoschweiz.admin.ch/ueber-uns/me...

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Trüb und staubig - MeteoSchweiz

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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 · 25/03/2026

Das könnte sein, aber bitte unterschätze nicht, dass nur Studien mit crazy Ergebnissen für die Medien oder high-ranking journals interessant sind. Eine „durchschnittliche Studie“ wird keine extrem schlechten oder guten Ergebnisse liefern und daher kaum mehr als ein paar Freaks interessieren...

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Blaž Gasparini @blazgaspa.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Is there a way to make your own EGU schedule (tag sessions or talks), as in past years, don't see this option on the site?

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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 · 16/03/2026

It's disappointing that the people that really did this study aren't mentioned anywhere in word, just the PI, making it a bit of a caricature of what's wrong with Austrian science. Journalists, please pay attention to that, you can do it better! @fwf-at.bsky.social

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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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