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Jacopo Riboldi

@jriboldi.bsky.social
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Lecturer in Atmospheric Dynamics at ETH Zurich 🇮🇹🇨🇭 Tackling climate research problems from a weather-centered perspective 🌦🌀🌡

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 29/03/2026
The authors of a Comment article in Nature highlight concerns over adopting AI in meteorology and call on the weather and climate community to set clear standards, starting with agreed data sets, for testing out-of-sample extreme-event predictions objectively. 🧪
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Can AI models reliably forecast extreme weather events?
More-rigorous testing is required before artificial-intelligence approaches are widely adopted by public forecasting agencies.
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AGU (American Geophysical Union) @agu.org · 13/03/2026
In Geophysical Research Letters, scientists present the first simulation of an entire tropical cyclone, from an initial vortex to maturity, at a very high-resolution (100-meter grid spacing). 🔗 Check it out: buff.ly/85qhRSwhtt #AGUPubs #Atmosphere #TropicalCyclone
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Large Eddy Simulation of an Entire Tropical Cyclone From Initial Vortex to Maturity
Ito et al. 2026
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Jacopo Riboldi @jriboldi.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
The connection between Rossby waves and extreme weather, as well as their economic and societal impacts, are the main topics of the "2nd Workshop on the Dynamics of Rossby waves, compound extremes and impacts" starting tomorrow at @vuamsterdam.bsky.social, attended by 150+ scientists!! 〰️🇳🇱
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Jacopo Riboldi @jriboldi.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Or is it maybe a different wave train that continues, originated by the Rossby wave breaking over the subtropical jet? We noticed a similar dynamics in our WCD paper on circumglobal wave patterns during winter: doi.org/10.5194/wcd-... (Ahmadi-Givi et al. 2014, too: doi.org/10.1002/qj.2...).
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Jacopo Riboldi @jriboldi.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
The propagation of a Rossby wave train from N America did the rest: as the ridge amplified over the N Atlantic and merged with the anticyclone E of Greenland, the trough originated the deep cut-off low over N Africa. The wave train is expected to continue its eastward propagation to the Pacific 〰️➿
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Jacopo Riboldi @jriboldi.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Why is it happening? Upper-level anticyclones have been present between Greeland and Scandinavia in the last few weeks, and as a result the North Atlantic jet stream has been located more south than usual. This means that Atlantic cyclones can enter more easily into the Mediterranean (NAO-).
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Jacopo Riboldi @jriboldi.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
The strong pressure gradient between a cut-off cyclone over N Africa and a cold anticyclone over eastern Europe will lead in the next few days to very strong SE winds and heavy precipitation over southern Italy and Spain. The whole western Mediterranean will feel it! 🌀⛈️🌬️🌊 Plots: charts.ecmwf.int
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Jacopo Riboldi @jriboldi.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
In only 8 days, it is EGU26 submission deadline! 🚨 If your work involves Rossby waves, jet streams and extreme weather/climate events, consider submitting your abstract to the "Atmospheric Rossby Waves and Jet Dynamics" session! 🌬️〰️🌀 Invited speaker this year: Dr. Philipp Breul (University of Köln)
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Jacopo Riboldi @jriboldi.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
We also computed analogs focusing only on the impacted region, but the large-scale circulation pattern was quite different from the event, so much that one wonders if it was still the same event.
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Jacopo Riboldi @jriboldi.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Thanks for the shoutout!! In our case we showed that including information about the position of the low-level cyclone helped to improve precipitation in the analogs, probably because the moisture-bearing low-level flow was more constrained.
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Jacopo Riboldi @jriboldi.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
An interesting new project about the physical and dynamical processes behind extreme windstorms in present and future climate 🌬 at @unirdg-artcol.bsky.social Consider applying if you are interested!
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Jacopo Riboldi @jriboldi.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
"Sycophancy essentially means that the model trusts the user to say correct things,” says Jasper Dekoninck, a data science PhD student at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich".
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Dr. Serge Zaka @sergezaka.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Cette carte est unique au monde. Après plusieurs mois de modélisation, AgroClimat2050 dévoile une 1ère mondiale : la biogéographie future (c’est-à-dire l’aire de répartition) de l’une des 🍎 les + consommées au monde (Golden) grâce à un modèle agroclimatique qui n'a pas d'équivalent en Europe. 1/7
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Jacopo Riboldi @jriboldi.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Storm Boris hit central Europe with extreme precipitation in September 2024: how will this event look like in a warmer climate? 🌧🌡 Many different, but equally correct answers can be given! Discover the nuances in our new work, now in open discussion at egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...
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EGUsphere - Storm Boris (2024) in the current and future climate: a dynamics-centered contextualization, and some lessons learnt
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Jacopo Riboldi @jriboldi.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
A question about causality: are the oceans intensifying heat inland, or are they warming as a result of the same circulation inducing heat over land? The second pathway is clear, the first not immediately obvious as sea temperature is less than land air temperature.
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Jacopo Riboldi @jriboldi.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Esto no es un video del tifón, es un viejo video de una tormenta.
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Christophe Cassou @cassouman40.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Bref coup de chaud mardi&mercredi associé a une dépression "pompe a chaleur" au large du Portugal #PlumeDeChaleur, puis probable mise en place d'un très puissant #DomeDeChaleur (fort anticyclone) pour la fin du moins de Juin avec persistance de chaleur extrême (Sud 🇫🇷). Effrayant mais pas surprenant!
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Jacopo Riboldi @jriboldi.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Yes and indeed these bullet points about inertia are nowhere to be found in the English version of Red Electrica. Still interesting, however, that everything seems to have started from a solar power plant... and the exact cause not been found yet.
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Jacopo Riboldi @jriboldi.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Interestingly yes, it seems. This is an excerpt from the conclusions (in Spanish, but I think the first sentence is still understandable).
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Under pressure from the Trump administration, the National Science Foundation (NSF), a $9 billion agency funding scientific research that has made America great, has canceled over a thousand grants and slowed new funding. That's just the beginning and will get way worse unless Congress intervenes.
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Amid DOGE-induced turmoil, National Science Foundation in crisis
The $9 billion agency, which exists solely to fund researchers, projects and facilities outside its Alexandria, Virginia, headquarters, is hitting reverse on its mission.
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Jacopo Riboldi @jriboldi.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Dear weather and climate dynamics enthusiasts, an exciting session with 24 contributions (orals+posters) awaits you at EGU25 **tomorrow**, Monday 28.05, from 14 to 18 in rooms M1 and X5. Hope to see many of you there at the "Atmospheric Rossby Waves and Jet Dynamics" session! 🌬️〰️🌀
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cira-csu.bsky.social @cira-csu.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
An incredible view of a dust storm charging south across Mexico.
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Christophe Cassou @cassouman40.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Première #galerne (coup de vent brutal sur Pays Basque/Sud Landes) ce soir 18 Avril autour de 19h avec rafales locales proches de 100km/h. Renversement/renforcement extrêmement rapide des vents au passage d'un front orageux après belle journée de chauffage (Température ~25°C dans le Sud-Ouest) 1/
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Jacopo Riboldi @jriboldi.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Doppler radars for tornado and severe weather rapid warnings, hurricane hunters' flights for improved track and intensity forecasts, weather and climate models used by many stakeholders... NOAA excellence and contribution to society are under threat. Full support to it and to @ametsoc.org effort!
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Jacopo Riboldi @jriboldi.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
You are welcome :) it is algebra-based but very insightful. And free, also for your students :) In case you need to deepen more specific topics just let me know, and I can easily refer to more advanced tomes.
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Jacopo Riboldi @jriboldi.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
www.eoas.ubc.ca/books/Practi...
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Practical Meteorology An Algebra-based Survey of Atmospheric Science - version 1.02b. isbn 978-0-88865-283-6
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Tomer Burg @burgwx.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
One of a meteorologist’s biggest pet peeves is “my app says it’ll be ____”. Weather apps can miss so many details that a meteorologist will know. Let’s use tomorrow in NYC — my app says it’ll be 78 degrees but rainy. But is that the full story? Spoiler alert… no, it’s not!
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American Meteorological Society @ametsoc.org · 25/03/2025
From life-saving weather warnings and cancer treatments to tech breakthroughs, federally funded science drives progress. In an open letter, the AMS urges strong federal science funding to ensure our future. More: bit.ly/4j6rQGZ
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Science Helps You Thrive: Strong U.S. Scientific Leadership Raises Us All
The AMS is a global community committed to advancing weather, water, and climate science and service.
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Jacopo Riboldi @jriboldi.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
In Svizzera si puoʻ essere un vero "Eidgenosse" (un "confederato") o magari più informalmente un "Bünzli" 🇨🇭
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Miriam Goldstein @miriamgoldstein.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
🧵: I am getting texts on what scientists should do in this perilous and scary moment. My advice: your biggest power is to organize through your professional societies. A few ideas -
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Tobia Spampatti, PhD @tspampatti.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
🚨Paper alert 🚨 Do you wonder about how emotions influence climate-friendly outcomes? @kimdoell.bsky.social and I have analyzed how 8 emotions influence climate beliefs, climate policy support, sharing climate messages, and climate behavior across 63 countries. We found that... 1/
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Giulio Betti @giuliofirenze.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Doge staffers enter Noaa headquarters and incite reports of cuts and threats
Members reportedly sought access to IT systems at agency that Project 2025 has called ‘harmful to US prosperity’
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Giulio Betti @giuliofirenze.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
129 cm di neve in 12 ore a Obihiro (Hokkaido), nuovo record nazionale. A record-breaking 1.29m of snow fell in Obihiro, Japan, within just 12 hours on February 4, 2025, setting a new national record for 12-hour snowfall and leaving cars stranded in deep snow. 1/2 watchers.news/2025/02/04/j...
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Japan sets new national 12-hour snowfall record with 1.29 m (4 feet) in Hokkaido
A record-breaking 1.29 m (4 feet) of snow fell in Obihiro, Japan, within just 12 hours on February 4, 2025, setting a new national record for 12-hour snowfall and leaving cars stranded in deep snow.
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Instituto de Geociencias (CSIC-UCM) @igeociencias.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Aumento de las frecuencias de bloqueo en simulaciones de modelos climáticos idealizados de muy alta resolución, por @bernat_jimenez igeo.ucm-csic.es/aum... #IGEOinvestiga
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Jacopo Riboldi @jriboldi.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Interesting read! There are many neopositivist and even "messianic" expectations about AGI, I hope we will soon have more realistic expectations about that "bubble", too.
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Tomer Burg @burgwx.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
It's no exaggeration to say today brought a truly historical weather event to the Gulf Coast - lots of places all the way down to the water got over 6-8 inches of snow, shattering records going as far back as 1895 in some places. Let's review what caused this historic event 🧵
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Jacopo Riboldi @jriboldi.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
This drastic circulation change indicates that the large-scale flow configuration has to be fully reconfigured over the North Atlantic after the cold spell. Does such a pattern shift happen as a result of the cold spell, or is the cold spell a byproduct of it? That's an open question imo. (4/4)
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Jacopo Riboldi @jriboldi.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
The risk of windstorms over the North Sea region remains significantly high up to 7-10 days after the cold spell. This is consistent with the zonal flow pattern expected in the next few days over the North Atlantic and "seen" by medium-range models. (3/4) bsky.app/profile/simo...
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Jacopo Riboldi @jriboldi.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
As noticed by @simonleewx.com, this event is a nice example of the "pathway" connecting central North America cold spells to windstorms over the British Isles just a few days later -see figure below, taken from doi.org/10.1029/2022... (Anomalous 2m T in blue; magenta: jet stream; orange: sfc wind)
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Jacopo Riboldi @jriboldi.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
It is high time to meditate on the effect that North American conditions can have on Europe (and not only from a meteorological viewpoint!) In the current event, I like how it is the same trough now above the southern US that moves over the Atlantic to support the strong Atlantic cyclogenesis 🌀
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Jacopo Riboldi @jriboldi.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
📢 Extended abstract submission deadline for the storm tracks workshop! 📢 15 Jan. 2025 -> 20 Jan. 2025 A very focused meeting, bringing together many experts of storm tracks and extratropical dynamics 🌦 I attended the previous one and can only recommend it 🙂
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Jacopo Riboldi @jriboldi.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Very interesting review co-authored by @usyseth.bsky.social profs @manuelaibrunner.bsky.social and A. Prein about the increasing "hydroclimatic volatility", aka sudden transitions from drought to flooding or vice versa. Water cycle gets faster in a warmer climate!🌡🌧🔄 www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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Hydroclimate volatility on a warming Earth - Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
Rapid transitions between extreme wet and extreme dry conditions — ‘hydroclimate whiplash’ — have marked environmental and societal impacts. This Review outlines observed and projected changes in hydr...
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Jacopo Riboldi @jriboldi.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Winds will gradually weaken during Thursday as the cyclone slowly moves eastward. Another impression of the importance of Rossby wave breaking events for different types of impactful extremes!
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Jacopo Riboldi @jriboldi.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
They are driven by a deep, isolated upper-level cyclone over S California, that resulted from a spectacular anticyclonic Rossby wave breaking event over the west coast. Notice the <-3σ anomalies (thanks @aliciambentley.bsky.social for the maps).
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Jacopo Riboldi @jriboldi.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
The fires ravaging the outskirts of Los Angeles are driven by anomalously strong easterly winds, locally known as 'Santa Ana winds". Low-level winds speeds over the area exceed 5 standard deviations in anomaly (though wind speed is not gaussian, but ok). But why are they so strong?
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Jacopo Riboldi @jriboldi.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
In 10 days, it is EGU25 submission deadline! 🚨 If your work involves large-scale dynamics and extreme weather/climate events, then consider submitting your abstract to the "Atmospheric Rossby Waves and Jet Dynamics" session! 🌬️〰️🌀 Invited speakers: Peiqiang Xu (IAP) and Talia Tamarin-Brodsky (MIT)!
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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
New evidence that it was the economic vibes, stupid open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
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A Win for the Vibecession Story
Guess what? Popular economic narratives aren’t reliable
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Jacopo Riboldi @jriboldi.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Very interesting! A "red" weather alert might now have a direct effect on the GDP 🚨 An even greater responsibility for @aemet.extwitter.link and civil protection bodies. It will be an occasion to further refine the national warning system, while making Spain more resilient to climate change 🌦
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Reto Knutti @retoknutti.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Redrawing the global warming stripes. In a new paper led by Sebastian Sippel published in Nature today, we show that the early 20th century global ocean surface temperatures and thereby global mean surface temperature were warmer than previously thought. Thread... (1/13)
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Jacopo Riboldi @jriboldi.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Despite the similarities, this cyclone is not -I repeat- of tropical nature. ❌🌴 But when looking at Hart diagrams without knowing the context, it may look tropical! What a fascinating storm 🌀 As usual, thanks to TropicalTidbits and @aliciambentley.bsky.social for the amazing maps 😀 (7/7)
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