Reposted by Robb Jnglin WillsZack Labe @zacklabe.com · 07/09/2026Check out the extent of ocean warmth over the last three months... The likelihood of experiencing these anomalously warm temperatures has been increased by human-caused climate change. And this has immense impacts on society and our environment. Data from www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/opt... 113758
Reposted by Robb Jnglin WillsRobb Jnglin Wills @robbjnglinwills.bsky.social · 02/09/2026The parallel between this paper and England et al. 2014 (doi.org/10.1038/ncli...) is a good reminder that part of the Pacific SST trend pattern discussion is similar to that which occurred during the “global-warming hiatus”. However, while the hiatus global warming trends have been reconciled...doi.orgRecent intensification of wind-driven circulation in the Pacific and the ongoing warming hiatus - Nature Climate ChangeThe slowdown in global average surface warming has recently been linked to sea surface cooling in the eastern Pacific Ocean. This work shows that strengthening trade winds caused a reduction in the 20... 112
Reposted by Robb Jnglin WillsMetJam @metjam.co.uk · 27/05/2026Oxford, the longest running continuous weather station in UK history, with temperature observations stretching back to 1815, has preliminarily broken its maximum temperature record for May yesterday by OVER 3ºC with a temperature of 33.7ºC. Unprecedented in its 211-year history. 9727761307
Reposted by Robb Jnglin WillsBen Sanderson @benmsanderson.bsky.social · 13/05/2026One datacenter. 9GW. powered entirely by natural gas turbines is about 31 million tonnes of CO2 per year. About the same as Switzerland. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.com‘Irresponsible’: backlash as Utah approves datacenter twice the size of ManhattanFacility would require more power than entire state uses and suck up vast amount of water in drought-stricken area 083
Reposted by Robb Jnglin WillsKevin Anchukaitis @thirstygecko.bsky.social · 09/04/2026The debate continues: Multidecadal variability in the Atlantic mostly forced, multidecadal variability in the Pacific mostly internal agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.comMultidecadal SST Variability Assessed as Primarily Forced in the Atlantic and Internal in the Pacific Using Rotated Low‐Frequency Component AnalysisRotated LFCA effectively separates forced and unforced variability Atlantic Multidecadal Variability is primarily forced The Pacific Decadal Oscillation exhibits some forced variability but is l... 1269
Reposted by Robb Jnglin WillsNora Fahrenbach @norafahrenbach.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Is more always better? Not when it comes to planting trees to cool the climate 🌲🌍 Our new study in @commsearth.nature.com shows that strategic reforestation can achieve the same cooling with half the land www.nature.com/articles/s43... #Reforestation #ScienceforPolicynature.comReforestation scenarios shape global and regional temperature outcomes - Communications Earth & EnvironmentStrategic reforestation can achieve similar global cooling with half the forest area, by avoiding reforestation in high latitudes, as revealed by implementing three distinct reforestation scenarios in... 1135
Reposted by Robb Jnglin WillsDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 17/12/2025Gonna keep posting about this. Dismantling NCAR is stupid and dangerous; doing it as payback to the governor of Colorado is idiotic.denver7.comTrump admin targets Boulder-based National Center for Atmospheric Research for dismantlingThe Trump administration is seeking to dismantle the Boulder-based National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). 310946
Reposted by Robb Jnglin WillsBob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 17/12/2025AGU has a Congressional email and call script up on NCAR:agu.quorum.usSave NCAR from being dismantled today!The Trump Administration has vowed to dissolve the center that provides critical extreme weather and climate data for our nation. 0130101
Reposted by Robb Jnglin WillsKatharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 17/12/2025NCAR is quite literally our global mothership. Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources. Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet. Unbelievable.usatoday.comTrump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in ColoradoThe Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs. 5822041127
Reposted by Robb Jnglin WillsBen Sanderson @benmsanderson.bsky.social · 17/12/2025Friends at NCAR, we're with you. @ncar-ucar.bsky.social is a trailblazer in community modelling driven not by idealogy, but by open science. We share all our code, thoughts, ideas. These can't be shut down. We'll fight and find every mechanism to support the ongoing CESM community. 17532
Reposted by Robb Jnglin WillsAndrew Williams @andrewilwilliams.bsky.social · 09/12/2025📢Submit to our EGU session!📢 We are organizing a session at EGU 2026 in Vienna, with a focus on climate sensitivity, radiative feedbacks and the pattern effect! If you work on anything related to climate sensitivity, we'd love to have you! 🥳🥳🥳 Submit soon! :) 21712
Reposted by Robb Jnglin WillsMike Byrne @drmichaelbyrne.bsky.social · 18/11/2025We are convening an EGU 2026 session on the large-scale atmospheric circulation in past, present and future climates! Always a fun and vibrant session, abstract deadline is 15th Jan 💨🌎 meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/sessio...meetingorganizer.copernicus.orgSession CL4.2 173
Reposted by Robb Jnglin WillsGavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 10/09/2025Online chatter suggests that the DOE Climate Change (Denying) Working Group has been disbanded and the report will be withdrawn. 😂 Seems that violating FACA and the Information Quality Acts have consequences. Not seen any official announcement though. 617933
Reposted by Robb Jnglin WillsKris McNeill @krismcneill.bsky.social · 11/07/2025We are looking for an Assistant Professor (tenure track) in the area of Soil Chemistry. Please spread the word! Application deadline is September 30. ethz.ch/en/the-eth-z...ethz.chAssistant Professor (Tenure Track) of Soil Chemistry 078
Reposted by Robb Jnglin WillsGavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 19/06/2025This is a bit technical, but I'm updating my table of TCR/ECS values for CMIP6 models, and I need to find info on these models: "AWI-ESM-1-1-LR", "CAS-ESM2-0", "CMCC-CM2-HR4", "E3SM-1-1", "E3SM-1-1-ECA", "EC-Earth3-Veg-LR" , "ICON-ESM-LR". Anyone? thx! 4114
Reposted by Robb Jnglin WillsDaniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 11/06/2025For years, I've long said that climate.gov's team of remarkable communicators (& their amazing blogs, which were accessible but did not "dumb down" the science!) was NOAA's best (& most cost effective!) public-facing extreme #weather / #climate education effort to date. This will be a huge loss. 7432202
Reposted by Robb Jnglin WillsYann Quilcaille @yannquilcaille.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Reminder: call for abstracts for the CMIP Community Workshops. Latest developments in models & approaches, reflections on CMIP6, explorations on CMIP7, etc. In particular for those related to climate emulators, I encourage you to check the session 29. All info here: wcrp-cmip.org/event/cmip26/wcrp-cmip.orgCMIP Community Workshop 2026 - Coupled Model Intercomparison ProjectThe CMIP Community Workshop 2026 will bring together a growing, and increasingly diverse, community of Earth system scientists, partners, and stakeholders. It 1117
Reposted by Robb Jnglin WillsClare E. Singer @claresinger.bsky.social · 30/05/2025Can't believe it's already hour 47/100! Dr. Olivier Pauluis is currently talking about why the atmosphere moves. Join us here: wclivestream.com/watch/ 1187
Reposted by Robb Jnglin WillsEd Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 29/05/2025The village of Blatten in Switzerland is partly buried by the collapse of a glacier which melted because our greenhouse gas emissions warmed the climate. Another reminder that choosing to not invest enough today to reduce emissions means far greater costs for society in the long term. 7342134
Reposted by Robb Jnglin WillsMarshall Shepherd @drshepherd2013.bsky.social · 16/05/2025Heads up on this vital 100 hour streaming marathon on the value of weather and climate expertise as National Weather Service struggles with staff shortages and reduction in service www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...forbes.com100-Hour Streaming Marathon To Highlight Value Of Weather ExpertiseA 100-hour streaming marathon before hurricane season seeks to raise awareness of cuts to the weather-climate enterprise and why that expertise matters to us all. 117796
Reposted by Robb Jnglin WillsCIRES @cires.colorado.edu · 08/05/2025New research from CIRES Fellow Kris Karnauskas found that widely-used estimates of upwelling along the equator in the Pacific Ocean are far off — the water is rising much faster. @oceansclimatecu.bsky.social @colorado.edu @ametsoc.org Read the story: cires.colorado.edu/news/pacific... 0119
Robb Jnglin Wills @robbjnglinwills.bsky.social · 23/04/2025I’m looking forward to EGU next week, where there will be a large representation from the ETH Climate Dynamics group! A 🧵 of all the exciting research our group will be sharing. I’m also looking forward to catching up with everyone going to EGU! (1/11) 2135
Reposted by Robb Jnglin WillsGerard McCarthy @germac.bsky.social · 22/04/2025We published a signal-to-noise analysis of AMOC observations in GRL. TLDR: Direct observations (RAPID) of the AMOC do show a decline in line with climate model projected weakening (~1 Sv/decade) but the noise is still very large in comparison to the signal. Paper: doi.org/10.1029/2025... 14020
Reposted by Robb Jnglin WillsNora Fahrenbach @norafahrenbach.bsky.social · 15/04/2025Looking forward to presenting the results from our study at #EGU25 in Vienna next week! The rough reality: How forests reshape tropical circulation and hydroclimate 📅 Tue, 29 Apr, | 🕑 10:45–12:30 CEST | 📍 Hall X1, X1.43 071
Reposted by Robb Jnglin WillsErich Fischer @erichfischer.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Can climate models reproduce observed trends? The answer can be challenging. Our new review paper in Science Advances led by Isla Simpson and Tiffany Shaw @drshaw.bsky.social discusses challenges and ways forward in confronting climate models and observations. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 110544
Reposted by Robb Jnglin WillsAmerican Meteorological Society @ametsoc.org · 21/02/2025The AMS is temporarily opening its career services to all who need them, regardless of membership status, and offering dues waivers and meeting registration fee reductions for those impacted by job loss due to changes in the government. Read more: bit.ly/4gRiHAk 191024455
Reposted by Robb Jnglin WillsDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 24/11/2023IPCC scenarios are projections, not predictions. "The future has not been written. There is no fate but what we make for ourselves." We get to decide what the world will look like in 2100. gmd.copernicus.org/articles/13/... 16365143
Reposted by Robb Jnglin WillsProf. Sonia I Seneviratne @soniaseneviratne.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Here is a starter pack of scientists based in Switzerland🇨🇭active in climate/environmental research (in nat. & soc. sciences) @retoknutti.bsky.social @robertfinger.bsky.social @jksteinberger.bsky.social @rarohde.bsky.social @florianaltermatt.bsky.social @kariningold.bsky.social go.bsky.app/5cJemte 1613345
Robb Jnglin Wills @robbjnglinwills.bsky.social · 09/09/2024🚨Postdoc in Climate Dynamics at ETH Zurich🚨 We are hiring a postdoc to work on understanding projected future changes in the atmospheric circulation and climate. The scope is broad, with flexibility to work on questions aligned with your interests/experience. jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...jobs.ethz.chPostdoc Position in Climate Dynamics 12222
Robb Jnglin Wills @robbjnglinwills.bsky.social · 17/07/2024Promoting papers feels a bit strange this week considering everything going on, but I am excited about our new paper showing a larger influence of Gulf Stream anomalies on the atmospheric circulation over Europe in models that resolve weather fronts (1/6) t.co/5tVgIBGuJrt.cohttps://doi.org/10.1029/2023MS004123 541
Robb Jnglin Wills @robbjnglinwills.bsky.social · 21/06/2024To optimize climate models, how do we prioritize between resolution & ensemble size, between physical param. development & incorporating AI? In a perspective paper out this week, Tapio Schneider, Ruby Leung, and myself argue we need a balanced approach: t.co/Vm87lbjrPzt.coOpinion: Optimizing climate models with process knowledge, resolution, and artificial intelligenceAbstract. Accelerated progress in climate modeling is urgently needed for proactive and effective climate change adaptation. The central challenge lies in accurately representing processes that are sm... 010
Robb Jnglin Wills @robbjnglinwills.bsky.social · 04/01/2024Less than a week to submit an abstract for #EGU24. If you work on understanding the contributions of internal variability and forced responses to historical or future climate change and climate impacts (e.g., using large ensembles), then please consider submitting to our session! 031
Robb Jnglin Wills @robbjnglinwills.bsky.social · 04/12/2023Can climate models reproduce observed trends in the tropical Pacific SST gradient? Does their ability to do so (or not) have implications for climate sensitivity? In a new paper led by Maria Rugenstein and @ShreyaDhame, we show … 🧵 doi.org/10.1029/2023...doi.orgConnecting the SST Pattern Problem and the Hot Model ProblemWe reconcile seemingly contradicting evidences for the ability of climate models to reproduce observed surface temperature pattern trends All models fail to reproduce long-term trends but many al... 2248