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Elizabeth Kent

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Ocean, climate, Southampton

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Shane Elipot @selipot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🌊 Hiring a postdoc in PO at UMiami @miamirosenstiel.bsky.social & UMaine! Study the AMOC across the RAPID-MOCHA & OSNAP arrays using models, moorings, SWOT & ML. Shape your own project, join cruises 🚢 Rolling review, apply early! umiami.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UMCareerStaf... #AMOC #OSNAP #RAPID
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Tim Osborn @timosbornclim.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
More on the HadSST v4.1 to v4.2 changes: Improvements to the Engine Room Intake biases during World War 2 and addressing the digitasation truncation bias in the Japanese Kobe SST collection identified by Chan et al. (2019). Sandford & Rayner (2026) doi.org/10.1002/joc....
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Addressing the World War 2 Warm Anomaly in HadSST.4.2.0.0
We present an update to the Hadley Centre Sea-Surface Temperature dataset (HadSST.4.2.0.0) that addresses residual warm bias during the Second World War (WW2). Using a quantitative definition of the ....
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Will the U.S. megadrought ever end? Spoiler: perhaps not A great explanation of why...and why this may be more than just a drought. www.sciencenews.org/article/unit...
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Will the U.S. megadrought ever end?
For 27 years, the Southwest has been gripped by a historic drought. Scientists think it might be here to stay.
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Hampshire @hampshireuk.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
D-day era floating roadway saved by preservation work #Hampshire #BBCNews
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World War Two Southampton Mulberry Harbour saved by preservation work
The structure had been partially submerged for decades before being recovered in Southampton.
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Sam Burgess @oceanterra.org · 10/09/2026
August 2026 was the warmest August ever recorded globally and the warmest month on record El Niño is pushing temperatures higher, but these records are occurring in a climate that has already been fundamentally altered by decades of burning fossil fuels heating our planet #Climate 🧪⚒️🌊
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 01/09/2026
Our Berkeley Earth high resolution dataset paper is now available for open review over at ESSD! Thanks to @rarohde.bsky.social and Bruce Calvert for all the hard work to get it released: essd.copernicus.org/preprints/es...
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Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature – High-Resolution (BEST-HR): a 0.25° Global Gridded Temperature Data Set for Climate Monitoring
Abstract. We present version 2 of the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature dataset, a global observational temperature record that now features enhanced spatial resolution (0.25° × 0.25°) and a new regr...
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Prof Richard Betts @richardabetts.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This summer was the hottest on record in the UK The summer of 1976 that some folks my age keep banging on about is now only the SEVENTH hottest on record The top five hottest summers all happened since 2003 We're heating the planet by burning fossil fuels www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...
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Summer 2026 provisionally hottest on record for the UK
The season’s mean temperature was made around 130 times more likely due to human-induced climate change.
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Tim Osborn @timosbornclim.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Ben Santer et al. show another claim in the Trump Admin's 2025 DOE climate report does not withstand scrutiny. Using the correct observational data, they find that observed tropical atmospheric temperature changes are consistent with the expected human fingerprint on climate. (my annotations)
Fig 3 from Santer et al. (2026) showing consistency between observed and modelled changes in atmospheric temperatures at different levels within the stratosphere and troposphere, with my annotations on panel c
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Shane Elipot @selipot.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I am recruiting a PhD student in physical oceanography to work on the observations and dynamics of the #AMOC! Come join us at @miamirosenstiel.bsky.social in Miami! Details and application at the link👇. DM me for details. 📸 Claudia Campi & Cedric Guigand graduate.earth.miami.edu/admissions/p...
A photograph of an autonomous underwater vehicle, also known as a glider.A photograph of a large oceanographic research vessel at sea
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Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Eclipse, Southampton, 2026. The first is filtered through the glasses that my partner brilliantly sourced late in the day. The second is filtered through a welder's filter that a fellow eclipse-watcher was kind enough to share.
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Peter Stott @stottpeter.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Fire apparently burning out of control in Mincinglake Valley Park in Exeter with smoke visible from our house and 16 fire engines in attendance. After this hot dry summer climate change from burning fossil fuels and its effects have come uncomfortably close to home. www.devonlive.com/news/devon-n...
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Huge fire at popular Exeter park as 16 fire engines battle blaze
Smoke can be seen from across the city
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Tim Osborn @timosbornclim.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
As part of the State of the Climate 2025 just published in BAMS (www.ametsoc.org/ams/publicat...) we updated the CRU sdPDSI global drought analysis to December 2025.
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State of the Climate
An international, peer-reviewed publication released each summer, the State of the Climate is the authoritative annual summary of the global climate published as a supplement to the Bulletin of the Am...
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Simon Lee @simonleewx.com · 10/08/2026
Happy to have contributed to Chapter 5 "The Arctic" in a section led by @drahbutler.bsky.social – featuring some discussion of an unusually early final stratospheric warming for winter 2024/25 and an unusually early sudden stratospheric warming for winter 2025/26! doi.org/10.1175/BAMS...
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Gavin Foster @thefosterlab.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I always thought it would take climate changes impacts to be felt before we take action. So here it is…when we making changes people? www.lbc.co.uk/article/new-...
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Drivers told to flee cars ‘if you want to stay alive’ as New Forest fire spreads - with 120 firefighters battling blaze | LBC
An area the size of 140 football pitches has reportedly been destroyed
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Richard Allan @rpallanuk.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
🌡️ The State of the Global Climate 2025 report is published: doi.org/10.1175/2026... ☁️ 🧊 🔥 This charts continued melting of ice & near record global temperatures last year but also identifies reduced cloud coverage & dry soils plus highlights extremes such as the Canadian and Iberian wildfires.
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John Kennedy @micefearboggis.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Choosing the Right Sea Surface Temperature Datasets: Benchmarking and Guidance for Climate Applications An important and useful paper led by Duo Chan. journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...
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Historic Southampton @historicalsoton.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
On this day in 1415, Richard of Conisbrough, 3rd Earl of Cambridge, and Lord Henry Scrope were beheaded outside the Bargate for their supposed role in the ‘Southampton Plot’ against King Henry V. 1/4
The Bargate.
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David Durant @bowsy.co.uk · 31/07/2026
For unknown reasons the Number 10 media team still doesn't have anything official on Bluesky so I spent 15 mins vibe-coding up this which automatically shares @andyburnham.bsky.social 's Instagram and TikTok posts. @unofficialandy.bsky.social #AndyBurnham Please share - thanks!
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Historic Southampton @historicalsoton.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
The Floating Bridge service had been carrying people across the River Itchen since 1836. Its days are numbered in this photo as the Itchen Bridge is built alongside it. The Floating Bridge service came to an end when the Itchen Bridge opened in 1977.
Construction of Itchen Bridge alongside the Floating Bridge.
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Emma Boland @emmaboland.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I'm really pleased to be taking on the role of Co-Chair of the @soosocean.bsky.social Observing System Design capability working group. 😃 🇦🇶 ⭐ We're looking for a new ECR and members of the leadership team, please consider nominating yourself or a colleague and share widely! soos.aq/opportunitie...
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
'Everett F. Wells', Swan Hunter shipyard, Leslie Street, Wallsend, 1977, photo by Graham Smith.
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Tim Osborn @timosbornclim.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
HadCRUT5 global temperature now updated to May 2026 crudata.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/tem...
Global temperature time series 1850-2026 from HadCRUT5 dataset
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
The extreme weather we have now is not the new normal. It’s going to keep getting worse as long as we continue to burn fossil fuels.
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‘Unprecedented’ changes in UK climate are normalising extremes, report says
Annual State of the UK Climate analysis finds last four years in UK are in top five hottest on record
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Historic Southampton @historicalsoton.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Two very different views from the same place on top of Southampton’s medieval walls.
Early 1900s view looking out over the Western Shore and West Bay from the old walls. Modern view of Westquay shopping centre, built on reclaimed land.
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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 11/07/2026
Framing the causes of hotter heatwaves The recent reductions in aerosol emissions have acted to unmask the warming that was already caused by past greenhouse gas emissions climatelabbook.substack.com/p/framing-th...
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Framing the causes of hotter heatwaves
Fossil fuels or human-induced climate change?
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 09/07/2026
Folks skeptical of human-driven warming like to point to a period of somewhat less rapid warming from 1900-1945. In a new analysis at TCB, I dig into the different factors driving it, and find that humans, natural factors, and variability all played an important role: www.theclimatebrink....
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Historic Southampton @historicalsoton.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Castle Hall was a two-storey stone-built house situated in the south-west corner of the Southampton Castle grounds. It was originally built in the late eleventh or early-to-mid twelfth century at the base of low natural cliff on the shoreline. 1/5
Photograph of the remains of the vault.
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 06/07/2026
The global surface temperature record is one of the most iconic figures in climate science. We now have 12 different groups of researchers from the US, UK, EU, Japan, and China (among others) that have calculated it and found nearly identical results:
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Historic Southampton @historicalsoton.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Women making Spitfire parts at the Supermarine works in Woolston, early 1939. This factory in Southampton, where the Spitfire was originally designed and first built, would be targeted by the Luftwaffe during two daylight air raids in September 1940. 1/2
Women at a production line using a hammer to manufacture Spitfire parts. 📸: Illustrated London News, 4 February 1939.
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Historic Southampton @historicalsoton.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
The Arcades, part of Southampton’s fourteenth century defensive wall, photographed in the early 1900s.
Photograph of the Arcades.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 02/07/2026
One thing I've learned about paradoxes: often the answer to the riddle of "how can this one thing have such a contradictory set of features and effects?" is "it's not one thing, it's *two* things*." 1/
A village revel in a sleepy wood, with many Renaissance peasants having a debauch. In the background is a hulking mainframe computer.
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Tim Osborn @timosbornclim.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Announcement: the new version of CRU-TS (v4.10) running through to December 2025 is now released. This is the first update we've completed since the retirement of Ian 'Harry' Harris who maintained CRU-TS for many years. Andrew Friedman has now taken on this role. crudata.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/hrg/
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CRU-TS high-resolution gridded climate datasets Climatic Research Unit (CRU)
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American Association of Geographers @geographers.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
June 20 is #ShowYourStripes Day! Use this graphic from @uniofreading.bsky.social & @ncas-uk.bsky.social to raise awareness of the rise in the Earth’s temperature. buff.ly/YUgbECW #GeoKky #Climate #ClimateChange #ShowYourStrips #ClimateSky
Show Your Stripes Graphic.

Graphics and lead scientist: Ed Hawkins, National Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Reading., National Centre for Atmospheric Science, UoR.
Data: Berkeley Earth, NOAA, UK Met Office, MeteoSwiss, DWD, SMHI, UoR & ZAMG
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Paul Voosen @voosen.me · 12/06/2026
Oh, back from the future, here it is:
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The ocean current that warms Europe may be more resilient than feared
Studies of the Atlantic's circulation find signs of both weakening and unexpected stability in the face of global warming
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Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
@microsoft.com - Does this screen serve any purpose whatsoever? I've yet to notice any change despite years of making different choices. I tick the box and say "Yes" purely as a Pavlovian reflex to Windows dialogues, but without any conscious expectation that, this time, things will be different.
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Peter Thorne @peterthorne.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Will you look at that @icarus-maynooth.bsky.social in the talk on the new era6 reanalysis given by Hans Hersbach of @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social
Maynooth University mentioned in a slide of era6 improvements
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Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Trump regime takes aim at crucial ocean monitoring network. Ships will be dispatched this month to remove the more than 900 deep-sea instruments that comprise the network, one of the world’s most trusted sources of climate and oceanic data. www.scientificamerican.com/article/trum...
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Trump administration takes aim at crucial ocean monitoring network
The Ocean Observatories Initiative has been collecting data on physical, chemical, geological and biological conditions in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans for the past decade
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Historic Southampton @historicalsoton.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
On this day in 1937, SS Habana arrived in Southampton from Bilbao. On board were around 3,840 Basque children who had been evacuated from the Spanish Civil War. They were taken to a volunteer-run camp at North Stoneham before being relocated to homes across the country.
Habana at Southampton with her decks completely packed with children.Plaque on Southampton Civic Centre.
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Mike Sieracki @msier.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
NSF is closing down most of the Ocean Observatory oceanobservatories.org/2026/05/anno...
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Announcement on NSF OOI Descoping - Ocean Observatories Initiative
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has initiated descoping of the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) Major Facility. This plan includes the removal of all in-water infrastructure from the Ir...
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Municipal Dreams @municipaldreams.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Modern Mooch visits Southampton's famously brutalist Wyndham Court estate ... modernmooch.com/2026/05/11/w...
Corner view of seven-storey brutalist housing block
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Tim Osborn @timosbornclim.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
The Royal Meteorological Society @rmets.org recently wrote a piece celebrating influential women in weather and climate. It’s well worth a read on any day, not just on International Women’s Day www.rmets.org/metmatters/t...
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Ten influential women in weather and climate - past and present
To mark International Women’s Day, here are some of the influential women who changed weather and climate science globally, from scientific breakthroughs to public communication.
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
11/ OBSERVATIONS - Also published just this week: data from four mooring arrays along the western Atlantic shows a consistent decline in deep overturning transport across all latitudes over the past 20 years. The models predicted decline. We're now measuring it.
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Science | AAAS
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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Apropos of nothing here’s a picture of global cooling (it’s that tiny little dip at the end).
Seven data sets all agreeing on the overall surface temperature trends from 1850 to 2025.
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Richard Allan @rpallanuk.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Earth is warming as ther's more energy arriving than leaving driven by rising greenhouse gases & this imbalance is growing rather than shrinking as needed to limit #climate change. Our recent contributions to this in @ioppublishing.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1088/1748... doi.org/10.1088/1748...
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Reconciling Earth’s growing energy imbalance with ocean warming
Reconciling Earth’s growing energy imbalance with ocean warming, Allan, Richard P, Merchant, Christopher J
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EPCC @epcc.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
ARCHER2, the UK national supercomputing service, has delivered an eightfold return on investment to the economy according to independent analysis. Operated by EPCC, it has enabled more than £4.2bn in benefits to the UK economy since launching in 2021: edin.ac/47JGMHB
Montage with photo of Prof Mark Parsons and quote: "This report provides a resounding justification of the value of Government investment in large-scale national supercomputing."
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John Kennedy @micefearboggis.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
The WMO State of the Global Climate 2025 report came out today. The report landing page with the report, press release, Story Map, extremes supplement, and an interactive extremes map. wmo.int/publication-... mini-thread
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Key Climate Indicators
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Earth’s climate swings increasingly out of balance wmo.int/news/media-c...
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Earth’s climate swings increasingly out of balance
Geneva, Switzerland (WMO) – The Earth’s climate is more out of balance than at any time in observed history, as greenhouse gas concentrations drive continued warming of the atmosphere and ocean and me...
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Gavin Foster @thefosterlab.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
One good thing to out of this mess is that it once again highlights the urgent need to decarbonise: www.theguardian.com/environment/....
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Reaching net zero by 2050 ‘cheaper for UK than one fossil fuel crisis’
Climate change committee finds move to renewable energy would also bring health, economic and security benefits
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Sam Burgess @oceanterra.org · 10/03/2026
The extreme events of February 2026 highlight the growing impacts of #climate change and the pressing need for global action. 🌡️ Global temperatures were 1.49°C above pre-industrial levels, for the 5th warmest February More details: climate.copernicus.eu/press-releases
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