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Paul Griffiths @paultgriffiths.github.io · 08/09/2026

My annual summer progress ends today. A very fine August but 暑いですね。。。

Pictures of a man's progress around Japan - trip to Hokkaido to eat melon and marvel at the landscape, NIES field work trip to the Minami alps, Suica's Penguin merch, and various Tokyo spots.

Paul Griffiths @paultgriffiths.github.io · 29/05/2026

This is such a clear visualization of where we are now. From a recent Copernicus report climate.copernicus.eu/5-charts-dis...

Distribution of daily global surface air temperature anomalies (°C) relative to 1991–2020 for each year from 1940 to 2025. Selected important climate events have been annotated. Data source: ERA5. Credit: C3S/ECMWF. Visualisation inspired by the work of Erwan Rivault (BBC).

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Paul Griffiths @paultgriffiths.github.io · 03/04/2026

Kyushu U today to give a talk at the Center for Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (COAR), RIAM. Very happily my visit coincides with peak Sakura! Here’s my gracious host Prof Toshi Takemura showing all the beauty.

Prof Toshi Takenura standing in front of the Sakura and the people doing hanami at the Kasuga campus

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Paul Griffiths @paultgriffiths.github.io · 24/03/2026

A nice trip to MRI in Tsukuba to attend Stephanie Fiedler’s seminar (and to talk with Stephanie and her host Naga Oshima)

Dr Naga Oshima of Japan Meteorological Research Institute, Tsukuba introduces Prof Dr Stephanie Fiedler, Heidelberg University, at the start of her seminar.

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Paul Griffiths @paultgriffiths.github.io · 11/03/2026

Happy to be at #CMIP26 with my Bristol colleagues. Always amazing to come to the Kokukaisaikan in Kyoto.

Colleagues from University of Bristol "Bristol Research Initiative for the Dynamic Global Environment (BRIDGE)" standing in front of the welcome banner of the CMIP26 workshop being held in Kyoto.

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Paul Griffiths @paultgriffiths.github.io · 09/01/2026

Having a great day at JAMSTEC, visiting the Earth Surface System division. Their lobby has former versions of the Earth Simulator computer (currently at version 4) and, nerd that I am, here is a photo. JAMSTEC also lead work on LLM for climate adaption planning - essopenarchive.org/users/555101...

an edited image showing three variants of the rack mounted HPC machines used for the JAMSTEC Earth Simulator.

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Paul Griffiths @paultgriffiths.github.io · 20/11/2025

🚨🧪The ML4O3 Perspective on 'Applications of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Tropospheric Ozone Research' is published (as a Highlight) today in @egu-as.bsky.social GMD. Great team effort from our many co-authors. doi.org/10.5194/gmd-...

A Sankey type diagram showing connections between the Challenges, Future Directions and Tangible Next Steps in ML/AI research in for tropospheric ozone.

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Paul Griffiths @paultgriffiths.github.io · 17/07/2025

From the back of the room - a great turnout for the UKCA science meeting. Heading towards our community town hall.

A photo of a lecture theatre at the University of Reading Dept of Meteorology showing a packed, stuffy room full of scientists and laptops. The screen at the front shows a talk from Hanish Gordon of CMU

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Paul Griffiths @paultgriffiths.github.io · 12/06/2025

Alas IWGGMS is over but it’s been a great workshop. Can’t wait for the next trip to Shikoku!

All the fun of the IWGGMS fair. A sunset over the inland sea; hordes of scientists running up stairs for free beers; Takamatsu’s very friendly station which has a smiley face; a look at Thursday’s delicious obento lunch (provided by the workshop!); a photo of the opening session, and a scene from the initiation of an instrument scientist in to the python way of data analysis in Pandas when the spreadsheet is in Unicode 🧐

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Paul Griffiths @paultgriffiths.github.io · 15/05/2025

Getting #UKESM evaluation going at the @terrafirmaclimate.bsky.social General Assembly in Exeter hosted by the @metoffice.bsky.social. Composition avengers assemble!

UKESM scientists sitting in the sun to discuss how to evaluate the CMIP7 and, more importantly, which one of them will do it

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Paul Griffiths @paultgriffiths.github.io · 03/12/2024

Ten minutes late arriving at the @ncas-uk.bsky.social meeting on AI/ML and horrified to have missed the first half of @atmbnl.bsky.social’s think piece on future directions. Great day of talks followed.

Professor Bryan Lawrence of Reading University and the UK National Centre for Atmospheric Science addresses the NCAS meeting on AI and ML. On the screen is a slide on seamless prediction with a well-balanced prevarication of a conclusion.

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Paul Griffiths @paultgriffiths.github.io · 24/11/2024

TIL that the dog in the amazing keshō-mawashi worn by Takanoshō was drawn by the artist as a likeness of the redoubtable wrestler.

A picture of the sumo wrestler Takanoshō Nobuaki standing in front of his ceremonial belt aka keshō mawashi. The design of the belt is a smiling dog that is drawn so that it resembles the wrestler.

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Paul Griffiths @paultgriffiths.github.io · 20/11/2024

IWGGMS-21 happening next year in Takamatsu. For those who went to IGAC 2018, a chance to revisit!

A flyer for a conference, advertising the 21st International Workshop on Greenhouse Gas Measurements from Space meeting to be held in Takamatsu Japan in June 2025. The flyer shows green islands in a blue sea

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Paul Griffiths @paultgriffiths.github.io · 13/11/2024

Seminar mini-world tour concludes! After Kobe (Japan Society for Atmospheric Chemistry annual meeting) and Tsukuba (National Institute for Environmental Science), a trip to Seoul to visit my #IO3C colleague Prof Ja Ho Koo. Thanks to him and his group for a great day (Korean BBQ trip not shown).

A seminar at Yonsei University in Seoul. A fat man addressing a group of students. The projector screen shows a figure from Prof Alex Archibald’s TOAR review paper. Prof Ja Ho Koo is visible at the front in a red hoodie.

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Paul Griffiths @paultgriffiths.github.io · 22/07/2024

After a restful weekend mooching about the front range of the Rockies, another mountain(of tech difficulties) emerged at the start of the #TOAR2 CLA meeting - which we’ve now “summitted”. The very patient James Keeble now presenting on our ROSTEES WG.

A room full of ozone nerds looking desperately at the only working laptop in the room

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Paul Griffiths @paultgriffiths.github.io · 17/07/2024

Quadrennial Ozone Symposium this week. Today is the tropospheric chemistry session. Many excellent talks: for me the recent work of Amir Souri was a real highlight and I always enjoy a chance to hear Michael Prather and his views on ozone chemistry.

Professor Michael Prather UCI speaking at the quadrennial ozone symposium

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Paul Griffiths @paultgriffiths.github.io · 15/07/2024

A great week at the Schmidt Sciences Cross-VESRI/ICCS Summer School. Some really useful sessions on the intersection of ML/AI and new computational methods.

Large hulking figure caught staring at BSOD during libtorch/FTorch training session

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Paul Griffiths @paultgriffiths.github.io · 05/07/2024

Looking forward to an interesting and, maybe, not yet obsolete workshop on Next Generation Environmental Modeling hosted by NERC. Peter Dueben of ECMWF opens proceedings to speak on the Quiet, Digital and ML revolutions in forecasting.

A screen showing a zoom call in a London hotel with Peter Dueben from ECMWF speaking to his first slide.

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Paul Griffiths @paultgriffiths.github.io · 07/12/2022

Day 2 of our causal workshop co-organised by @shmh40 and supported by @AccelerateSci. Thanks to @PManshausen for a fascinating overview of the potential for causal methods to investigate aerosol-cloud interactions

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Paul Griffiths @paultgriffiths.github.io · 06/12/2022

Final talk from Cory Zigler - bringing spatial data into causal inference, and also introducing weather2vec! Both are exciting tools to better understand air quality.

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Paul Griffiths @paultgriffiths.github.io · 06/12/2022

🤯 as @Marlene_Climate explains how to use (what is usually) the summary diagram from a paper as the basis for causal analysis.

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Paul Griffiths @paultgriffiths.github.io · 06/12/2022

Our #CausalMethods workshop is underway - Dr @amt_shrma presenting on the DoWhy library. github.com/py-why/dowhy

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Paul Griffiths @paultgriffiths.github.io · 27/10/2022

Excellent session on AI for Climate Change Adaptation at the #Trilateral_AI symposium today. Good to hear differentiable models briefly discussed.

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Paul Griffiths @paultgriffiths.github.io · 06/06/2022

The first ROSTEES science meeting is underway! Featuring presentations from Qiang Fu, @martabalos and @DrJamesKeeble on the impact of the stratosphere on tropospheric ozone. Thanks to the @IGACProject TOAR activity for sponsoring this activity.

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Paul Griffiths @paultgriffiths.github.io · 24/05/2022

F1. AS3.1 Aerosol physics and Chemistry. @lanky_manky keeping the hybrid #EGU22 gremlins at bay

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Paul Griffiths @paultgriffiths.github.io · 23/05/2022

The second session of our #EGU22 on “Composition-Climate Interactions including natural aerosols” is underway with my co-conveners @catzigle and @DrJamesKeeble chairing this session. Find us in M1 for talks on aerosols, chemistry and climate!

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Paul Griffiths @paultgriffiths.github.io · 27/09/2021

Morning visitor to @RobinsonCamb - spotted by my dear friend Dr Gallimore.

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Paul Griffiths @paultgriffiths.github.io · 17/01/2020

In Siem Reap and caught sight of the @CamSocVent logo. Thanks for the nice intro to your work, manager Pheakdey

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Paul Griffiths @paultgriffiths.github.io · 05/10/2019

Embracing complexity... ⁦my chance (and yours) to hear more from @StuartMaudsley⁩ group

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Paul Griffiths @paultgriffiths.github.io · 25/09/2019

Day two of a short visit to @N_Earth to join in with their work on air quality in Thailand. The new NARIT buildings are looking amazing - ready for a grand opening on their 10th anniversary in January? - and new observing capacity is coming on stream all the time.

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Paul Griffiths @paultgriffiths.github.io · 18/07/2019

Dr Shalini Punjabi describing results from her work at the long-term monitoring site at Cape Verde Atmospheric Observatory. These efforts are vital for our understanding of atmospheric composition changes. #ACSIS

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Paul Griffiths @paultgriffiths.github.io · 04/07/2019

A visit to the @Ri_Science for their public discussion meeting on #climaterepair. Their warm up music is @ISO50 btw.

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Paul Griffiths @paultgriffiths.github.io · 07/03/2019

Fantastic few days working with the air quality scientists @N_Earth. So much is changing here at NARIT and so quickly. The planetarium is built, an observatory (🔭) is finished and the radio telescope is planned out.

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Paul Griffiths @paultgriffiths.github.io · 03/10/2018

Geophysical farewell from Tokyo.

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Paul Griffiths @paultgriffiths.github.io · 12/08/2018

Intensive studies of the alpine boundary layer underway

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