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Developing a new generation of Earth System Models Horizon Europe project GA nr. 101081193. Views are our own. #ClimateResearchNet Website: optimesm-he.eu Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/company/optimesm-he

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World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) @wcrpclimate.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
NEXT WEEK: How do scientists model tipping point risk & what can we learn when different models are compared? Join our webinar to learn more about multi-model results and discuss challenges that remain. 🗓 Wednesday, Sept 9 ⏰ 16–17:30 CEST 🔗 loom.ly/nGTerbo
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OptimESM HE @optimesm-eu.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Read the full White Paper on “Bridging The Gap: How EU climate research projects can better support Early-Career Researchers” based on our survey. zenodo.org/records/2043... #OptimESM #ESM
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OptimESM HE @optimesm-eu.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
We're glad we had so many ECRs across Europe answering our survey. We hope our recommendations will help future EU projects better support ECRs. says Mariana Rocha, about the White Paper on how EU climate research projects better can support ECRs. optimesm-he.eu/2026/06/15/b... #OptimESM #ECR
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OptimESM HE @optimesm-eu.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Find out how EU climate research projects can better support Early-Career Researchers! Read more on the OptimESM website optimesm-he.eu/2026/06/15/b... #ECR #climateresearch #optimESM
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OptimESM HE @optimesm-eu.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
What a success to gather TipESM and OptimESM in a joint annual meeting to share interesting results with each other and discuss topics for collaboration also inviting other EU-projects, IPCC and UN Human Rights. We are looking forward to elaborate further on the collaboration! #ESM #Tippingpoints
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OptimESM HE @optimesm-eu.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Thank you @tipesm.bsky.social colleagues for the first day of valuable knowledge exchange and insights! We look forward to continue the discussions today to strenghten our collaboration on #EarthSystemModelling and #TippingPoints
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OptimESM HE @optimesm-eu.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
OptimESM colleagues gathered in Copenhagen and online for a frutiful first day of the GA. Many milestones have been reached and it was discussed how to move forward with the results and the remaining tasks. Check out the list of publications on the OptimESM website: optimesm-he.eu/resources/pu...
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OptimESM HE @optimesm-eu.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Today started the OptimESM General Assembly in Copenhagen and online with project updates and breakout groups! The two following days we will continue the meeting together with TipESM. Looking forward to many interesting discussions!
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OptimESM HE @optimesm-eu.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
OptimESM project leader, Torben Koenigk, co-chaired the session Ocean climate and marine systems: consequences of missing the warming targets of the Paris Agreement, at the Swedish Climate Symposium in Lund, 20-22 May and René Navarro-Labastida presented. swedishclimatesymposium.com/ocean-climat...
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OptimESM HE @optimesm-eu.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
EGU26 has started!! Yesterday OptimESM colleague Mikhail Ivanov (OptimESM WP6 and SMHI) presented his talk with the title: Can ML-based statistical downscaling models reliably extrapolate into the future? Check out the OptimESM related sessions at EGU here: optimesm-he.eu/2026/04/29/o... #optimesm
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OptimESM HE @optimesm-eu.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Excited to see OptimESM actively shaping the conversation at EGU 2026! From convening sessions to sharing insights across the programme, our team is driving collaboration and progress in Earth system science. Join us for inspiring discussions and new connections! See link in the comments.
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OptimESM HE @optimesm-eu.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Ever wished you could give your younger self some advice? 🤔 At one of our Climate Research Communication Network meetings, communication officers, project managers & engagement leads from EU climate research projects shared useful insights. Here’s what they shared 👇 #ClimateResearchNet
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OptimESM HE @optimesm-eu.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Check this out and make sure to register!
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SEACLIM @seaclim.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
⚓ Registration Open #SEACLIM Science Highlights Webinar on Ports and Adaptation to Climate Change. Discover how climate projections, oceanographic information and coastal hazard assessments can support climate risk analysis for ports. Register: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/a6951b...
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EERIE Project @eerie-project.eu · 06/03/2026
🔴 Are you in #Barcelona? Are you interested in #ClimateChange? Then this **EERIE Project public lecture** is for you! ⤵️ 💡 New Views of Climate Change - Insights from Kilometer-Scale Earth System Models 🗓️ Monday, March 9 🕕 6pm CET 🏢 @bsc-cns.bsky.social Register here: events.hifis.net/event/3767/
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Public Lecture: New Perspectives on Climate Change from km-scale Earth System Models
The EERIE Project aims to expand our understanding of the role of ocean eddies – an integral part of the ocean’s weather – in the Earth’s climate system in a warming world. In order to achieve this, w...
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ClimTip | Climate Tipping Points in the Earth System @climtip.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
❓When tipping causes tipping Ocean currents, monsoons, rainforests, ice sheets – all talk to each other Next week Anna von der Heydt @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social explains how such #climatetippingelements interact using paleoclimate clues🧩 Join us 3 Mar 2–3pm CET bit.ly/climtip-webi... #ClimTip
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OptimESM HE @optimesm-eu.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
This Social Media Strategy Wheel grew out of a CRC-net 2024 meeting on social media for EU research projects, held with the contribution of @maiaresilience.bsky.social communications experts. Collective lessons from EU climate project comms and management teams, distilled into practical strategies!
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OptimESM HE @optimesm-eu.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
🛞CRC-net Social Media Strategy Wheel: “Make social media work for your EU project” is an open resource built from the collective experience of EU climate project communication and management teams. #ClimateResearchNet Thanks @climtip.bsky.social @esm2025.bsky.social for the infographics!
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OptimESM HE @optimesm-eu.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
What’s new in climate science? 🌍A new synthesis in Global Sustainability highlights 10 recent advances, from record heat and ocean warming to carbon cycle changes and emerging societal impacts. A concise overview for researchers and policymakers. 🔗 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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OptimESM HE @optimesm-eu.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Meet Torben Koenigk! 🌍 Head of the global climate group at SMHI, he focuses on Arctic climate & Earth system modeling. As #OptimESM Coordinator & WP8 lead, he champions international collaboration to understand abrupt climate change and its impacts. optimesm-he.eu/about/the-te...
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OptimESM HE @optimesm-eu.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Meet Saloua Peatier🌍Postdoc at the University of Reading. In OptimESM, she studies idealised climate simulations to assess regional impacts of warming levels and abrupt climate change, including AMOC risks. optimesm-he.eu/about/the-te...
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OptimESM HE @optimesm-eu.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Meet Marco Possega🌍 Post-Doc at CNR-ISAC, working on land–atmosphere interactions, droughts, and soil moisture in climate models. In #OptimESM, he evaluates land-surface and soil-moisture processes and studies drought events, with a focus on the Mediterranean. optimesm-he.eu/about/the-te...
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Marco Possega, CNR-ISAC – OptimESM
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OptimESM HE @optimesm-eu.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Meet Sara Octenjak! She brings her expertise in stakeholder engagement & climate services to #OptimESM, helping turn science into urgent, just climate action. 🌍 optimesm-he.eu/about/the-te...
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Sara Octenjak, BSC – OptimESM
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OptimESM HE @optimesm-eu.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
⏰ Abstract deadline for #EGU26 is getting close! Several sessions are convened by researchers from the #OptimESM project – a great opportunity to share your work on Earth system & climate modelling. Submit soon! 🌍📊
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OptimESM HE @optimesm-eu.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Meet George Zittis, Research Scientist at the Cyprus Institute (CARE-C) and lead of the Climate Change Downscaling & Extremes Group. His team brings expertise in regional climate modeling and extremes, supporting #OptimESM with ML downscaling benchmarks and climate insights. 🔗 tinyurl.com/4hb8dxx4
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George Zittis, CARE-C The Cyprus Institute – OptimESM
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OptimESM HE @optimesm-eu.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Meet Annalisa Cherchi! 🌍 She is a senior scientist at CNR-ISAC and in #OptimESM, she contributes to improving hydrological processes in EC-Earth, with a focus on water-limited regions and future climate projections under warmer, drier conditions. 🔗 Read more: optimesm-he.eu/about/the-te...
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OptimESM HE @optimesm-eu.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Meet the people behind OptimESM 🌍 Over the coming weeks, we’ll introduce the team advancing next-generation Earth System Models to better understand climate change, extremes, and tipping points - delivering more credible insights for science, policy, and society. #OptimESM #HorizonEurope
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OptimESM HE @optimesm-eu.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Happy Holidays from OptimESM 🎄✨ Wishing our community a peaceful break and a great start to the new year. Thank you for being part of our journey!
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RESCUE Climate @rescueclimate.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
🌡 What happens if we overshoot the 1.5°C target? 🗨️ Explore key #ClimateChange concepts in A Foreseen Overshoot, a #sciencecomic designed to make complex topics simple. 📖 Get your copy here, and don’t forget to share it! buff.ly/8J5ILbB
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AI4PEX @ai4pex.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
⏳ Counting down to the #AI4EO Winter School — March 16–20 2026, Athens 🇬🇷 AI, climate extremes & collaboration ahead. One week left to register! 👉 buff.ly/HZcLiTM #AIWinterSchool2026 #AI4PEX #MeDiTwin #ClimateAction #Networking #CINEA
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UK Earth System Model @ukesm.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
These insights aim to inform policy, research & action toward a climate resilient future. Projects: @esm2025.bsky.social @optimesm-eu.bsky.social @tipesm.bsky.social @climtip.bsky.social @rescueclimate.bsky.social @nextgems 🌱 🔗 bit.ly/4pgvktX #ClimateAction #EarthSystemModels
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UK Earth System Model @ukesm.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
↔️ Research Gaps Where do we need deeper investigation to strengthen climate resilience? 🔗 bit.ly/4pgvktX #ClimateResearch #Innovation #HorizonEU
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UK Earth System Model @ukesm.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
🌍 Earth System Insights: from our Horizon Projects Briefing 6 European Horizon projects gathered their insights together for an in-depth forum with the European Commission (DG RTD & DG CLIMA). Here’s what they had to say 👇 🔗 bit.ly/4pgvktX #ClimateAction #EarthSystem #HorizonEU
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ClimTip | Climate Tipping Points in the Earth System @climtip.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
🪾Large parts of the #Amazon face savanna-like dry seasons if deforestations levels reach 25%. In the next #ClimTip webinar #JuliaPongratz @lmumuenchen.bsky.social talks about the state and future of the rainforest from the latest findings. 👉 Join on 2 Dec 2025 at 2–3pm CET bit.ly/climtip-webi...
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OptimESM HE @optimesm-eu.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
This exciting scientific article was written within the OptimESM project! #ClimateResearch #EarthSystemModelling #HorizonEU www.smhi.se/en/news/news...
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New Deep Learning Method Brings Europe’s Climate into Sharper Focus
Researchers from the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI), have developed a new method that uses Deep Learning to generate very high-resolution climate data across Europe. The resu...
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OptimESM HE @optimesm-eu.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Six EU-funded climate modelling projects recently met with the European Commission to inform decision-making. A joint briefing with key insights is coming soon. 📝 🔗 optimesm-he.eu/2025/11/12/c... #ClimateResearch #ScienceForPolicy
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Climate Research at the Heart of EU Policy: Six Projects Unite to Inform Decision-Making – OptimESM
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ESM2025 @esm2025.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Can we really count on land to deliver climate mitigation? Our new highlight unpacks what AR/BECCS can do — and where uncertainties bite (carbon stocks, permanence, local climate effects). Full story → bit.ly/4qMYPEy #CDR #ESM2025research @euclimateaction.bsky.social
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AI4PEX @ai4pex.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
📣 Exciting update — registration is OPEN for Joint Winter School “AI for Earth System, Hazards & Climate Extremes”! 📅 March 16 – 20 2026 📍 Venue, NTUA, Athens, Greece 🔗 More info and registration: buff.ly/kNH2f5B #AIWinterSchool2026 #MeDiTwin #CINEA #ClimateResearchNet #earlycareer #PhD
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ESM2025 @esm2025.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
By this time yesterday, we were seeing everyone again for the Climate Research Communication Network 6th Meeting! We kept doing what this network does best:connect project/comm managers & DEC people from EU climate projects so we don’t all reinvent the wheel &so we can amplify each other’s work💪🌍
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UK Earth System Model @ukesm.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
6 EU-funded climate & Earth system modelling projects—@esm2025.bsky.social, @optimesm-eu.bsky.social, @tipesm.bsky.social, @climtip.bsky.social, @rescueclimate.bsky.social & NextGEMS—came together for a clustered science-to-policy meeting to present insights.💬🌐 ukesm.ac.uk/climate-rese...
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Climate Research at the Heart of EU Policy: Six Projects Unite to Inform Decision-Making
Climate research provides the scientific foundation of the European Union’s climate policies, including the ambitious European Green Deal, which aims to make Europe climate-neutral by 2050. Scienti…
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AI4PEX @ai4pex.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Amazing time at Researchers’ Night at SMHI 🎉 It was inspiring to see such strong interest from enthusiastic people to learn about modeling, AI, data and clouds☁️🌊🌿 Great collaboration with @optimesm-eu.bsky.social, @tipesm.bsky.social & Climateurope2💡 buff.ly/0ysJ0EC #ClimateResearch #ESM
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Lecture sparked curiosity and engagement in climate research
SMHI's climate research unit invited participants to Research Friday 2025 (that is part of the European Researchers' Night) in Norrköping and online. Students, teachers, and interested parties had…
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OptimESM HE @optimesm-eu.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Check out the article 'Enhanced risk of hot extremes revealed by observation-constrained model projections' by Claudia Simolo & Susanna Corti published earlier this year in Communications earth & environment: doi.org/10.1038/s432...
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OptimESM HE @optimesm-eu.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
The impact of a weakened AMOC on European heatwaves by Virna L Meccia, Claudia Simolo, Katinka Bellomo and Susanna Corti: doi.org/10.1088/1748... via @ioppublishing.bsky.social
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The impact of a weakened AMOC on European heatwaves - IOPscience
The impact of a weakened AMOC on European heatwaves, Meccia, Virna L, Simolo, Claudia, Bellomo, Katinka, Corti, Susanna
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RESCUE Climate @rescueclimate.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
🤝 Last week, RESCUE participated in a joint policy meeting hosted by @esm2025.bsky.social This brought together policy officers and European projects with common themes & approches (OptimESM, TipESM, ClimTip, nextGEMS) to present their latest policy-relevant results and discuss the research impact.
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OptimESM HE @optimesm-eu.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
In JGR Oceans (2025), Stephen Kelly, Ekaterina Popova, Andrew Yool, Fatma Jebri, Sophy Oliver and Meric Srokosz show that the North Atlantic Bloom 🌊 may face abrupt shifts this century🐟 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
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Abrupt Changes in the Timing and Magnitude of the North Atlantic Bloom Over the 21st Century
Future stability of the North Atlantic bloom (NAB) examined using Earth system and high-resolution ocean model configurations The NAB collapses (halving of chlorophyll) across much of the North A...
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EERIE Project @eerie-project.eu · 23/09/2025
🆕 A quick guide to an elusive concept! 💡 #Storylines can help #climate scientists better convey a message and help average people understand the challenges they may face in the future due to #ClimateChange. ▶️ What's a Storyline? (Three different approaches): youtu.be/E0SzovQjQOc
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What's a Storyline? (Three different approaches)
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OptimESM HE @optimesm-eu.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Matteo Mastropierro, Katsumasa Tanaka, Irina Melnikova & Philippe Ciais is Testing GWP* to quantify non-CO2 contributions in the carbon budget framework in overshoot scenarios in npj Climate and Atmospheric Science (2025)🌡️ #ClimateScience #HorizonEurope #OptimESM www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Testing GWP* to quantify non-CO2 contributions in the carbon budget framework in overshoot scenarios - npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
npj Climate and Atmospheric Science - Testing GWP* to quantify non-CO2 contributions in the carbon budget framework in overshoot scenarios
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ESM2025 @esm2025.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
🚨 CNRM is hiring a Chapter Scientist for IPCC AR7 WGI Chapter 9 at CNRM (@meteofrance.com/CNRS), Toulouse! A unique opportunity for early-career researchers to contribute directly to the @ipcc.bsky.social process. 📑 12 months (extendable +2 years) ⏰ Apply by 16 Oct 2025 Details 👉 bit.ly/4moPFeb
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Chapter Scientist for the Chapter 9 of IPCC WGI AR7 F/M - Météo France | Nos offres d'emploi
Expert public de la météo et du climat, Météo-France est à vos côtés pour contribuer à votre sécurité au quotidien et vous aider à prendre les meilleures décisions, dans un climat qui change. Face à des épisodes météo dangereux encore plus intenses et plus fréquents sous l’effet du changement climatique, nos missions au service de votre sécurité sont cruciales. Nous mobilisons notre expertise, notre excellence scientifique et technologique pour vous permettre d’anticiper les phénomènes météorologiques et climatiques à enjeux, et de vous y adapter.
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OptimESM HE @optimesm-eu.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Weiwei Xiong, Katsumasa Tanaka, Philippe Ciais, Daniel J. A. Johansson and Mariliis Lehtveer present emIAM v1.0 in Geoscientific Model Development (2025) 🖥️ — an emulator for Integrated Assessment Models. 🔗 gmd.copernicus.org/articles/18/... #IAM #EarthSystemModels #HorizonEurope #OptimESM
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emIAM v1.0: an emulator for integrated assessment models using marginal abatement cost curves
Abstract. We developed an emulator for integrated assessment models (emIAM) based on a marginal abatement cost (MAC) curve approach. Drawing on the output of IAMs in the Exploring National and Global ...
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OptimESM HE @optimesm-eu.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Read another one of the articles published by researchers in OptimESM in 2025: "Monitoring the Multiple Stages of Climate Tipping Systems from Space: Do the GCOS Essential Climate Variables Meet the Needs?" link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Monitoring the Multiple Stages of Climate Tipping Systems from Space: Do the GCOS Essential Climate Variables Meet the Needs? - Surveys in Geophysics
Many components of the Earth system feature self-reinforcing feedback processes that can potentially scale up a small initial change to a fundamental state change of the underlying system in a sometim...
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