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Dr Doug Richardson @dresearchdson.bsky.social · 31/07/2024

Can the reverse happen i.e. Detailed Assessors give low scores but General Assessors rate it highly for some reason?

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Lily-belle Sweet @lilybellesweet.bsky.social · 17/06/2024

Can we learn from the recent past to predict future climate change impacts using machine learning? We have created a new benchmark dataset designed to help answer this question, and you can take part in the challenge: www.kaggle.com/competitions...

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Dr Doug Richardson @dresearchdson.bsky.social · 13/02/2024

Oh no! I thought I had it on the weekend but tested negative...

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Dr Doug Richardson @dresearchdson.bsky.social · 30/01/2024

Hoping to make this fab-looking meeting in June. Keen to (re)connect with the overseas compound events community.

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Dr Georgy Falster @raindrop-herder.bsky.social · 29/01/2024

to celebrate a recent *short format* paper featuring ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY panels across EIGHTEEN figures, I present what will definitely be simultaneously my most accurate and most niche post ever

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Dr Doug Richardson @dresearchdson.bsky.social · 11/12/2023

It's neat! I'll definitely try it out next time!

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Dr Doug Richardson @dresearchdson.bsky.social · 07/12/2023

I had a great time at my first CLEX workshop a few weeks back in Brisbane - met some wonderful people for the first time/first time IRL. Here I am pretending to be an art savant during my lightning lecture...

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Kai Kornhuber @kornhuber.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

High impact events are often compound events and need to be integrated in climate risk stress testing frameworks See our joint NGFS, Worldbank, ECB report with M. Dolk, N. Ranger, O. Mahul, A. Ceglar ‘Compound Risks: Implications for Physical Climate Scenario Analysis’ www.ngfs.net/sites/defaul...

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Sam Burgess @oceanterra.org · 27/11/2023

*New Dataset alert* Decadal Climate Predictions Project (DCPP) experiments, used in the C3S decadal prediction prototype service.  Available here: cds.climate.copernicus.eu/cdsapp#!/dat... 🧪

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Dr Doug Richardson @dresearchdson.bsky.social · 27/11/2023

I've just looked up the definition of a policy, and I still don't know if I agree with you or not... Either way, there's plenty I can list on my app. I doubt reviewers will take issue with me mixing up policy/plan/act!

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Nick Hedley @nickhedley.bsky.social · 27/11/2023

South Australia's electricity mix over the past 24 hours: 106% solar and wind. Average power spot price: A$2.44/MWh (the average across Australia: A$230.15/MWh)

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Dr Doug Richardson @dresearchdson.bsky.social · 27/11/2023

Powering Australia is the one policy I already had ;)

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Dr Doug Richardson @dresearchdson.bsky.social · 27/11/2023

That's great - thanks! I have been looking for policy names specifically for my DECRA application. I'd never thought about how news articles etc. never really *name* policies, just describe them.

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Dr Doug Richardson @dresearchdson.bsky.social · 26/11/2023

In Tassie they tend to be called "heat pumps" because you used the heating functionality a lot more than the cooling :)

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Dylan McConnell @dylanjmcconnell.bsky.social · 22/11/2023

Okay so this is a pretty big deal (Australian Gov to underwrite the energy transition basically - 32GW of RE/storage out to 2030) www.afr.com/companies/en...

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Chris Bowen’s energy transition rescue

The Albanese government will supercharge its struggling 82 per cent clean energy goal by dramatically expanding its underwriting of green generation and storage.

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Dr Doug Richardson @dresearchdson.bsky.social · 26/11/2023

Do you know if this policy has a new name? Or is it still the Renewable Energy Target?

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Dr Doug Richardson @dresearchdson.bsky.social · 26/11/2023

This was the worst way to start the week. A house two doors down from me sold a few weeks ago - complete knock-down job, $1.85 million.

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Tim Raupach @timraupach.com · 20/11/2023

Apply now to study in the upcoming climate and weather master's program at the UNSW Sydney Climate Change Research Centre! Study at UNSW and collaborate with NSW Bushfire and Natural Hazards Research Centre and NSW Department of Planning and Environment. Full info: www.linkedin.com/posts/unsw-c...

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Dr Doug Richardson @dresearchdson.bsky.social · 15/11/2023

Although for much of the globe, its the drying of fuels that leads to more burning (red shading here) - noisy signal though using this 19-year satellite data set.

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Dr Doug Richardson @dresearchdson.bsky.social · 15/11/2023

Our analysis from last year shows the same thing - a wet year prior to the fire season typically leads to higher burned areas in northern Australia (red shading in this image). From www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Dr Doug Richardson @dresearchdson.bsky.social · 15/11/2023

It highlights the role of La Niña-driven rains that increase the fuel load, which then dries out. This year has the highest area burned since 2011, which was also just after La Niña.

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Dr Doug Richardson @dresearchdson.bsky.social · 13/11/2023

Apparently the difference is whether you pour the espresso on top of the water, or the other way around?

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Dr Doug Richardson @dresearchdson.bsky.social · 13/11/2023

As an aside, how do people make sure their images are the perfect size for this app?

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Dr Doug Richardson @dresearchdson.bsky.social · 13/11/2023

This work was a very enjoyable first foray into the energy space. It is intended to provide a bit of a foundation for understanding the relationships between solar and wind power resource, weather patterns and the larger climate state. More to come…

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Dr Doug Richardson @dresearchdson.bsky.social · 13/11/2023

We also looked at the kinds of weather patterns associated with these droughts.

Weather patterns associated with solar, wind and compound (wind + solar) droughts in autumn.

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Dr Doug Richardson @dresearchdson.bsky.social · 13/11/2023

El Niño and other climate modes of variability can affect how likely these droughts are, but this influence is region-specific and may not matter for the grid at-large. BUT – this is just the resource (solar radiation and wind speed) – many other factors at play.

Blue shading shows regions that experience more solar droughts during La Niña winters than during El Niño winters.

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Dr Doug Richardson @dresearchdson.bsky.social · 13/11/2023

These ‘droughts’ happen in at least 15 out of 36 Renewable Energy Zones on >50% of days. Winter is the most at-risk season, mostly due to lower solar resource. Renewable Energy Zone = region of high renewable energy potential.

Number of Renewable Energy Zones that experience a wind, solar or compound (wind + solar) drought on the same day.

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Dr Doug Richardson @dresearchdson.bsky.social · 13/11/2023

✨New paper alert*✨ Cloudy, still days might sound mild, but they are bad for renewable energy! This new paper looks at how often Australia experiences compound cloudy, wind-less days. *less new if you read the pre-print. doi.org/10.1038/s416...

Regions of high wind and/or solar resource.

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Dr Doug Richardson @dresearchdson.bsky.social · 12/11/2023

There is at least one cafe where you can order a 'long black' OR an 'americano'.

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Dr Doug Richardson @dresearchdson.bsky.social · 06/11/2023

☕ I'm very happy to have been interviewed by L'Express recently! Read here (in French) for some nice coverage of the impacts of climate change on coffee: www.lexpress.fr/monde/le-caf... with an accompanying video feat. me and some lovely shots of Brazil: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ShF...

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Café : pourquoi le prix de votre expresso risque de s'envoler

50% des terres cultivables dans le monde ne le seront plus en 2050 à cause du réchauffement climatique. Au Brésil, premier producteur mondial, des caféiculte...

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Dr Doug Richardson @dresearchdson.bsky.social · 03/11/2023

A previous colleague of mine did that! Nightmare. I group mine according to the totally subjective 'type' of coding I use them for (file system stuff with os, glob...; data analysis with numpy, xarray...; plotting with matplotlib, cartopy...)

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Dr Doug Richardson @dresearchdson.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

👋 Introducing myself to bsky: I'm a climate scientist! Follow me for any combination of the following: compound events, energy systems, fire weather and forecasting. Here's hoping for a return of the halcyon days of climate twitter.

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