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Jhayron S. Pérez-Carrasquilla

@jhayron.bsky.social
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Earth system scientist using AI - Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Maryland www2.atmos.umd.edu/~jhayron

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Jacob Wenegrat @roguewave.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
🌊 3 year postdoc position in our group here at UMD Studying interactions of internal waves and deep boundary currents, cross-scale energy fluxes, and Lagrangian observations of topographic wakes. Full info: wenegrat.github.io/misc/Submeso... Thanks for looking!
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Jhayron S. Pérez-Carrasquilla @jhayron.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
#AMS2026 If you’re in Houston this week, I’d like to invite you to attend a session I’m co-chairing with my advisor, Maria Molina: - 9B Artificial Intelligence for Actionable Insights and Applications in Climate Science (Wednesday, 8:30–10:00 am) ams.confex.com/ams/106ANNUA...
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Simon Lee @simonleewx.com · 10/01/2026
📣 New paper with Lorenzo Polvani published in @agu.org GRL! Increasing Frequency and Persistence of the Summertime Greenland High Regime Not Captured by a Seasonal Prediction Model Very Large Ensemble Open access: doi.org/10.1029/2025... @earthscista.bsky.social @lamont.columbia.edu
Screenshot of part of our paper "Increasing Frequency and Persistence of the Summertime Greenland High Regime Not Captured by a Seasonal Prediction Model Very Large Ensemble" in GRL
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Simon Lee @simonleewx.com · 07/01/2026
Updated time series of daily year-round North American weather regimes for 1 Jan 1979 to 31 Dec 2025 just published on Zenodo: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... I plan to keep this dataset updated annually. Happy regime-ing!
Composite-mean normalised 500 hPa geopotential height anomalies for the four North American weather regimes: Pacific Trough, Pacific Ridge, Greenland High and Alaskan Ridge. The remaining 14% of days are classified as No Regime.
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David John Gagne II @djgagnedos.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Even after the news last week, we are still doing great research here at NCAR. My group has released a new paper, led by John Schreck, on arxiv about an efficient method for generating calibrated AI weather ensembles with reproducible scale specific perturbations. arxiv.org/abs/2512.18815
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Controllable Probabilistic Forecasting with Stochastic Decomposition Layers
AI weather prediction ensembles with latent noise injection and optimized with the continuous ranked probability score (CRPS) have produced both accurate and well-calibrated predictions with far less ...
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VisualPDE @visualpde.com · 25/12/2025
Some festive vortices to spin you into the new year! visualpde.com/fluids/vorti...
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Casey Ivanovich @ccivanovich.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Our paper exploring the drivers of the November 2023 “Taylor Swift” heatwave in Rio de Janeiro is officially out in WCD! Take a read to learn more about the causes of this record-breaking heatwave and Rio’s emerging risk for extreme heat: wcd.copernicus.org/articles/6/1...
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Physical drivers of the November 2023 heatwave in Rio de Janeiro
Abstract. Because extreme heat has not historically been a major hazard for the city of Rio de Janeiro, the November 2023 Heatwave magnitude and timing were staggering. Here we conduct a case study of...
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Flavio Lehner @climateflavors.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
I came to the US over 10 years ago for a postdoc at NCAR. It changed my life and supercharged my ability to do science. NCAR's unique community nature makes it a global node in atmospheric and climate research. It's really not possible to overstate its value for science and society.
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Flavio Lehner @climateflavors.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Hudson Bay is finally starting to freeze over in earnest. 2025 will likely go down as the 2nd-longest ice-free period for the Western Hudson Bay polar bear population, continuing the long-term trend (now >1 month longer than in the 1980s).
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Jhayron S. Pérez-Carrasquilla @jhayron.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Happy to share this short course at #AMS2026 that I'll be helping with: www.ametsoc.org/ams/educatio... Excited to see you there!!
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Intermediate Machine Learning in Python for Environmental Science Problems 2026
The AMS is a global community committed to advancing weather, water, and climate science and service.
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World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) @wcrpclimate.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
The WCRP Earth System Modelling and Observations (ESMO) Working Group on Subseasonal to Interdecadal Predictions (WGSIP) is launching a new webinar series in late 2025. 29 October 2025, 22:00 UTC — Theme: Predictability limits More info: loom.ly/F-Vfj6o #WCRP #ESMO #WGSIP
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Jhayron S. Pérez-Carrasquilla @jhayron.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Scientists Must Join Forces to Solve Forecasting’s Predictability Desert eos.org/opinions/sci...
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Scientists Must Join Forces to Solve Forecasting’s Predictability Desert - Eos
To strengthen societal resilience to worsening natural hazards, siloed Earth system science communities must collaborate to understand conditions that favor skillful subseasonal-to-seasonal forecasts.
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Fiona Spuler @fionaspuler.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Excited to share that our new paper is out in Weather and Climate Dynamics and was selected as a highlight publication🎉 We introduce a machine-learning approach to identify physically interpretable drivers of regional precipitation extremes. Have a look here: wcd.copernicus.org/articles/6/9...
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Learning predictable and informative dynamical drivers of extreme precipitation using variational autoencoders
Abstract. Large-scale atmospheric dynamics modulate the occurrence of extreme precipitation events and provide sources of predictability of these events on timescales ranging from days to decades. In ...
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 23/09/2025
Its worth noting that when the first modern climate models were published in 1970 it was hardly clear that there was a warming trend; if anything there had been flat or slightly cooling global temperatures for the past three decades:
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 23/09/2025
In a UN speech today, President Trump said that "all of these [climate] predictions were wrong". Back in 2019 I led a research effort to digitize old climate model projections and assess how well they did. Turns out they got future warming pretty spot on!
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Aaron Hill @draaronhill.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
🚨 Recruiting Two PhD/MS Students 🚨 I am looking to bring on at least two GRAs (M.S. or Ph.D. Level) beginning Spring or Fall 2026 to join our CHAOS research group. Research projects will be related to artificial intelligence and machine learning applications for extreme temperatures and rainfall
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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 29/08/2025
🌳 Deforestation and deadly heat A new study links tropical deforestation to ~28,000 heat-related deaths each year. Local warming from forest loss now accounts for over a third of climate heat mortality in affected regions. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #SciComm #ClimateCrisis 🧪
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Tropical deforestation is associated with considerable heat-related mortality - Nature Climate Change
The authors assess the impacts of tropical deforestation and its subsequent local warming on human heat-related mortality. They estimate that deforestation-related warming (+0.27 °C) is associated wit...
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Jhayron S. Pérez-Carrasquilla @jhayron.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
🚨I’m excited to share that the final version of my first PhD paper is already published! With my amazing advisor, Maria Molina, we characterized the predictability of North American weather regimes.
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LEAP-STC @leapstc.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Katie Dagon @ncar-ucar.bsky.social presents our next Lecture in #Climate #Data Science! 📅 THURS, 7/24/25 🕧 12:30p ET * please note time-shift this week * 📍 @columbiaseas.bsky.social Innovation Hub/Zoom 💻 RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/summer-202... @climate.columbia.edu #LEAPEducation #CESM #AI
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Jason Furtado @wxjay.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Please consider submitting an abstract to the Weather Regime session that I am co-chairing at the AMS 106th Annual Meeting. 👍🏼
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Nature Plants @natplants.nature.com · 08/07/2025
New Article: "When and where soil dryness matters to ecosystem photosynthesis" rdcu.be/evfGV A causality-guided explainable AI framework shows soil moisture dominates vapour pressure deficit in shaping global photosynthesis during water-limited conditions.
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Jake Nichol, PhD @complemental.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Published in JGR:MLC! We introduce CaStLe (Causal Space-Time Stencil Learning), a method for grid-level space-time causal discovery that scales efficiently in high-dimensional Earth system data. It enables causal analysis of grid-level processes like eruption plumes. #EarthScience #CausalDiscovery
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Space‐Time Causal Discovery in Earth System Science: A Local Stencil Learning Approach
We introduce Causal Space-Time Stencil Learning (CaStLe) for learning local causal dynamical structure underlying space-time data CaStLe enables previously infeasible analyses of grid-cell-level ...
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Jhayron S. Pérez-Carrasquilla @jhayron.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
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Nature Geoscience @natgeosci.nature.com · 10/07/2025
⚒️ Article: Both anthropogenic aerosols and tropical ocean warming have contributed to reduced precipitation over the Southwestern US in recent decades @ynkuo.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Recent southwestern US drought exacerbated by anthropogenic aerosols and tropical ocean warming - Nature Geoscience
Climate model simulations suggest that both anthropogenic aerosols and tropical ocean warming have contributed to reduced precipitation over the southwestern United States in recent decades, thus maki...
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 09/07/2025
Under Trump, NOAA ran the most recent competition for their highly prestigious postdoc program in climate and global change — but funded no one, wasting huge amounts of applicant and reviewer time. It gets a lot worse. Now current postdocs in the program are going unpaid.
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Recipients of a U.S. Climate Science Fellowship Are Put on Unpaid Leave
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Mike Byrne @drmichaelbyrne.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
As the UK prepares for an extended heatwave over coming days, interesting new @natgeosci.nature.com research suggests longer heatwaves as climate warms #climate #heatwave www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Accelerating increase in the duration of heatwaves under global warming - Nature Geoscience
The duration of long heatwaves increases at an accelerating rate with warming such that a large increase in the risk of long-lasting heatwaves results from relatively modest warming, according to an a...
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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 29/06/2025
Climate mitigation and adaptation measures are not costs. They are investments. The true costs occur when mitigation fails and adaptation is too slow so we suffer from continually worsening extreme weather events like heatwaves and floods. Invest now to reduce costs in future.
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The Weather & Climate Livestream @wclivestream.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
The 💯-hour Weather and Climate Livestream is now available on YouTube! Head to www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcWR... to rewatch your favorite talks, catch up on the parts you missed, and learn how you can help Save America's Forecasts. And there's still time to call your reps at wclivestream.com/act
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The 100-Hour Weather & Climate Livestream, Part 1
YouTube video by The Weather & Climate Livestream
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David John Gagne II @djgagnedos.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Our first paper on the CREDIT AI weather prediction framework is now published in npj Climate and Atmospheric Science! Updated paper includes comparisons with pangu and more details about the model. Check it out at www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Community Research Earth Digital Intelligence Twin: a scalable framework for AI-driven Earth System Modeling - npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
npj Climate and Atmospheric Science - Community Research Earth Digital Intelligence Twin: a scalable framework for AI-driven Earth System Modeling
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Jhayron S. Pérez-Carrasquilla @jhayron.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Yesterday from Iowa City ☁️
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Dr. Kelly Núñez Ocasio @knubez.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
The 2025 Atlantic hurricane season started but have you ever wondered how hurricane seeds form? Read about it 👇 Thanks to @dinahvp.bsky.social ‪‪@usatoday.com for the article! www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
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How 'tropical waves' carry confounding clues about huge hurricanes
The patterns found in the atmosphere often uneventfully dissipate, but occasionally feed giant hurricanes.
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John Fasullo @jfasullo.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
While global mean sea level rise over recent decades has been driven mainly by greenhouse gases, the regional pattern in the Pacific has likely resulted from sulfate aerosol emissions - with important implications for the coming decades... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Pan-Pacific low-frequency modes of sea level and climate variability
Coastal sea level records suggest that Pacific Ocean sea level and climate trends are unlikely to persist over the coming decades.
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Pedram Hassanzadeh @pedramh.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Can AI weather models predict out-of-distribution gray swan extremes? We report @pnas.org that the answer is NO for global gray swans, YES for regional ones: AI models can't extrapolate from weaker events but can learn from similar events in other regions during training! doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
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Can AI weather models predict out-of-distribution gray swan tropical cyclones? | PNAS
Predicting gray swan weather extremes, which are possible but so rare that they are absent from the training dataset, is a major concern for AI wea...
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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
9 people were killed in a tornado last night in KY. The NWS office responsible for that area has faced some of the most extreme cuts by the Trump administration, including the loss of overnight forecasting. Last night, they were rushing to find help for the office. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/w...
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After Cuts, a Kentucky Weather Office Scrambles for Staffing as Severe Storms Bear Down
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 10/05/2025
HAPPY 75th, NSF! We’re celebrating this milestone by highlighting some of NSF’s most transformative accomplishments—innovations that have shaped our world and continue to drive progress in health, technology, the environment, and beyond. Read on 🧵(1/11):
A chocolate cake with red and white decorations and lit candles shaped as the number 75. Bold text reads: ‘The NSF Turns 75 Today. What has it done over the past 7 decades?’ The background is a celebratory red with a spray-paint texture.
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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 17/04/2025
87 years ago. In April 1938, Guy Callendar published the first evidence from thermometer observations that the world’s land areas were warming. He also linked the observed warming to the increase in atmospheric CO₂ from burning coal. 87 years ago. rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
A hand drawn graph showing the rise in global land temperatures published in 1938.
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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Contrary to popular belief, what is important in science is as much its spirit as its product: it is as much the openmindedness, the primacy of criticism, the submission to the unforeseen, however upsetting, as the result, however new that may be. – Francois Jacob www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Don C. Schmitz @tallydon.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
www.nature.com/articles/s41... Yep.
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The global human impact on biodiversity - Nature
Key measures of biodiversity were quantified and found to be affected by human pressures that shifted community composition and decreased local diversity across terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecos...
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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 26/03/2025
We can also explore trends in extreme months. The wettest month of the year has become 20% wetter in the period since 1836. #RainfallRescue
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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 26/03/2025
Five years ago today, most historical UK monthly rainfall observations were not available to scientists. But the 66,000 pieces of paper containing the data had been scanned. With covid lockdown approaching we saw an opportunity to transcribe the data. #RainfallRescue began... 🧵
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Amy McGovern @profamymcgovern.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
You gotta laugh or you cry! This is well done
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National Weather Service Ordered to Deport La Niña
Under the threat of even more mass layoffs, today President Donald Trump ordered the National Weather Service to deport Pacific weather pattern La Niña. “We got an email from DOGE this morning conf…
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Stephan Rasp @raspstephan.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
🚨 WeatherBench Update 1. WeatherBench-X, our new evaluation code, is now on GitHub: github.com/google-resea... 2. New models (plus other small updates) on the WeatherBench website: sites.research.google/weatherbench/ 1/n
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GitHub - google-research/weatherbenchX: A modular framework for evaluating weather forecasts
A modular framework for evaluating weather forecasts - google-research/weatherbenchX
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David John Gagne II @djgagnedos.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Remember that big snowstorm that dumped a record amount of snow on New Orleans a few weeks ago? Should have been a huge disaster for an unprepared area right? It wasn't because NWS warned the city & state:https://www.axios.com/local/new-orleans/2025/01/23/interstate-closure-record-snowfall-louisiana
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Dr Emma Hodcroft @firefoxx66.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Normal: Fiscally conservative administrations carefully considering cuts to reduce costs without losing function or expertise, improving efficiency. Not normal: Hacking away without any foresight, burning taxpayer-funded expertise, & expecting you'll be left with anything remotely functional.
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Jhayron S. Pérez-Carrasquilla @jhayron.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
What was the need to call them "daemonic processes"? 😂
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Dr Emma Hodcroft @firefoxx66.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Huge thanks to my sister for helping put these together.
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I know it's totally overwhelming but here are just a handful of things happening in US Science & public health RIGHT NOW. I need you to know, so you can realise how you are being defrauded from a healthy, disease free future, with thriving science. I need you to know, so you can tell others.
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Jhayron S. Pérez-Carrasquilla @jhayron.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
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Vanessa Robledo @robledovd.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
The Iowa Flood Center has selected me to be featured in their Student Spotlight. I feel deeply honored—thank you so much for this recognition! iowafloodcenter.uiowa.edu/news/2025/01...
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Weather and Water: Improving Flash Flood Predictions
Vanessa Robledo, a second-year PhD student in civil and environmental engineering (CEE), is helping improve the Iowa Flood Center’s abilities to better forecast flash flood events. Building on her mas...
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Duvan Nieves Ruiz @dunieves.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
What an enriching experience at #AMS2025! Yesterday I presented my poster on tropical cyclones and today I shared our forecast model. I'm grateful for the interest and warmth from the scientific community. Thank you @ametsoc.bsky.social for this incredible opportunity to share and learn. 🌪️🎯
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