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Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Glaciologist @matthias-huss.bsky.social shows that the centre of the Great Aletsch glacier in Switzerland (the biggest in the Alps) lost 6 meters(!) of thickness just this summer. "No words...", he adds on LinkedIn.

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Simon Lee @simonleewx.com · 10/09/2026

8 years ago, I tweeted side-by-side maps from NASA GISS showing global temperatures in 1976 and 2018 – both hot summers in the UK. It subsequently went viral and was printed in the Daily Mail! The 2026 version is stark. Two locally extreme summers separated by 50 years of global climate change.

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Erich Fischer @erichfischer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Projection has become reality 22 years ago, Christoph Schär et al. published a landmark paper in Nature explaining that the 2003 heatwave was a harbinger of things to come. The study featured an iconic figure - shown in countless lectures - illustrating how outlandish the event was at the time

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

"The #climate we live in today is the least extreme climate you will experience in your lifetimes because of ongoing fossil fuel emissions."

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Corwin Wright @corwinwright.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

We are currently advertising for a two-year postdoc post as part of our @leverhulme.ac.uk-funded Seeing the Unseen project. Deadline is the 11th of August, and ideally we're aiming for a start date in late September. Please contact me if you'd like further details. www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...

Gravity waves generated by a simulated hurricane in the Caribbean

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Doug McNeall @dougmcneall.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Who else out there is working on data-driven or AI climate models?

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Ales Kuchar @kuchaale.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Looking at the recent #ECMWF forecast of zonal mean zonal wind at 10°N and 10 hPa #PolarVortex, it seems that the split #SSW was seen by the model initialised on Feb 23, literally 10 days before it is happening. This corresponds to the current skill of subseasonal to seasonal #S2S forecast systems

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Communications Earth & Environment @commsearth.nature.com · 20/02/2026

🚀A plume of pollutants in the upper atmosphere above Germany is identified using lidar observations of Li concentrations and can be traced back to the uncontrolled re-entry of a specific rocket launch through atmospheric modelling.🧪 👉Read more here: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

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Ales Kuchar @kuchaale.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

🚨New preprint alert!🚨 Was the strengthening of the Northern polar vortex in 2024/2025 associated with the Hunga Tonga #volcano? Our research using models and obs links descending volcanic water vapor plumes to the record-strong 2024/2025 Northern #PolarVortex egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...

A: Zonal mean weighted average for latitudes between 60–90◦N of water vapour volume mixing ratio (VMR; shading and
contour of 1 ppmv; monthly) anomalies for the extended winter 2024/2025 from MLS. Anomalies are expressed as differences with respect to the climatology for the period 2006–2020. Due to missing data, water vapour is visualized as monthly anomalies with interpolated gaps. Due to a retrieval artifact in the 10–8 hPa layer we smoothed the data vertically.

B: The average (east-west) zonal wind for 60◦N at 10 hPa for the extended winter 2024/2025 (OW3) in MERRA2. This is near the peak of the polar jet maximum.

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Important note for non-academics: you do not get tenure or promotion for pre-prints. You need published peer reviewed articles.

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Mathew Barlow @mathewabarlow.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Does anyone know how to access the 10 hPa ECMWF forecast data? With ecmwf-opendata, it seems I can only get up to 50 hPa. Thanks!

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Corwin Wright @corwinwright.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

We are currently advertising a four-year fully-funded* PhD project on if we can use stratospheric waves to predict hurricanes and typhoons earlier. If you or someone you know would be interested in this, please get in touch! www.findaphd.com/phds/project... * for UK students only, unfortunately

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Ales Kuchar @kuchaale.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Today at @agu.org the long-awaited report on global atmospheric impacts has been released. Kudos to all authors - tremendous work! See the document here: aparc-climate.org/publications... Press conference here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-Re... #WCRP #APARC #ClimateScience #HungaEruption #volcano

Hunga-Tonga report infographic generated in NotebookLM

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Uğur Öztürk @uguroeztuerk.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Twenty 4-Year #Postdoct Positions for Female Researchers at the @univie.ac.at Are you a female postdoctoral researcher interested in pursuing independent research at one of Europe’s leading universities? Don’t miss the opportunity to apply to the #ESTEEM: careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e...

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Ales Kuchar @kuchaale.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Sudden 30 °C temperature rise over Antarctica upends Australia's spring outlook www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-26/weather-pattern-could-disrupt-australia-for-months/105817572 www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYWj...

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Rare phenomenon could disrupt Australia’s weather for months

Temperatures above Antarctica have risen by 30C, in a rare event that could potentially flip Australia's spring weather for months.

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Eos @eos.org · 13/09/2025

Each degree of warmer weather leads to more added sugar consumption for the average adult male in the U.S. Climate change will intensify the issue.

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Heat Spurs Unequal Consumption of Sweet Treats - Eos

A new analysis shows warmer weather may drive more added sugar consumption, particularly among already-vulnerable groups.

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Austrian Fietser #klimafreak @woemi.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Mark your calendars! On 10 May, the Grätzl Kidical Mass rolls through Vienna! 🚲🇦🇹🥳Join us for a fun, safe bike ride with kids and families—reclaiming our streets for the next generation. Let’s make cycling visible, joyful, and loud! See you there! #KidicalMass #Vienna

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Scott Osprey @sosprey.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

A greater awareness and scrutiny of the upper atmosphere is a must to inform on impacts and future regulation of satellite reentry. Let’s hope upcoming missions like the European www.cairt.eu and similar US missions go forward.

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Cairt - English

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Blaž Gasparini @blazgaspa.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Am 14. Mai, über solares #Geoengineering für die Stadt #Wien, online

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Ales Kuchar @kuchaale.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Vulkanausbruch im Südpazifik beeinflusste Winterwetter in Europa. TEXT: short.boku.ac.at/92odzp001000... VIDEO: youtu.be/iwMkAvyJV9M @bokuvienna.bsky.social @sn.at #PyVista

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 15/04/2025

Beautiful data-art on the cover of the European State of the Climate Report released today. The mountainscape shows changes in European temperatures since 1940. Designed by @annalombardi.bsky.social. #esotc Full report: climate.copernicus.eu/esotc/2024

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Ales Kuchar @kuchaale.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Our ACP Letter finally published. It introduces a novel pathway by which a massive amount of WV by the Hunga Tonga #volcano may have contributed to #PolarVortex disruptions and consequently impacted surface climate. @bokuvienna.bsky.social www.atmospheric-chemistry-and-physics.net/about/news_a...

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ACP - New ACP Letter: Modulation of the northern polar vortex by the Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha'apai eruption and the associated surface response

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Ales Kuchar @kuchaale.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

#PyVista #visualization of my left knee based on DICOM files from MRI. Amazing how easily and openly you can visualize medicine data dev.pyvista.org/api/readers/...

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Ales Kuchar @kuchaale.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

If you would like to check my #AGU24 presentation on Modulation of the Northern Polar Vortex by the Hunga Tonga Eruption and Associated Surface Response, I prerecorded it here: youtu.be/Jkswrgt2iI8. Or check our preprint for details: egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20....

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Modulation of the Northern Polar Vortex by the Hunga Tonga Eruption and Associated Surface Response

YouTube video by Aleš Kuchař

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Simon Lee @simonleewx.com · 04/12/2024

I've made a starter pack of people who work on the stratosphere/middle atmosphere and/or often post about the stratosphere, including forecasts of the polar vortex. Please do suggest anyone I've missed – quite hard to keep up with everyone on here now! go.bsky.app/MxwzdEi

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Ales Kuchar @kuchaale.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

#PyVista #visualization of how massive amount of water vapour erupted into the upper atmosphere by Hunga Tonga #volcano has been spread out in SOCOL Earth System Model. More details in our preprint: egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...

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