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Taimoor Sohail

@taimoorsohail.bsky.social
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Physical Oceanographer and Climate Scientist at UNSW Australia

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Tim Raupach @timraupach.com · 22/09/2026
Respect and applause to @andrewkingclimate.bsky.social, @alexborowiak.bsky.social, Ruchit Kulkarni, @drkimclimate.bsky.social, @taimoorsohail.bsky.social, Gen Tolhurst, & Anna Zehrung for this piece on making climate science more inclusive for LGBTQIA+ scientists 🌈 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Increasing LGBTQIA+ inclusion in climate science
Nature Climate Change - LGBTQIA+ climate scientists have long encountered oppression and discrimination across society and in the workplace. We suggest specific actions, which need to be supported...
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Taimoor Sohail @taimoorsohail.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
🚨New Paper! Led by Joey Bisits, with @janzika.bsky.social, we explore the drivers of cabelling instability in the ocean using a first-of-its-kind turbulence-resolving simulation. See here for energy budgets, diffusion calcs and pretty pictures using Oceananigans: doi.org/10.1017/jfm....
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Cabbeling as a catalyst and driver of turbulent mixing | Journal of Fluid Mechanics | Cambridge Core
Cabbeling as a catalyst and driver of turbulent mixing - Volume 1011
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Taimoor Sohail @taimoorsohail.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Excited to have been given the opportunity to explain my research to a national audience on ABC Radio National Breakfast. The 5.30 AM wake up was worth it!
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Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science (ACEAS) @antarcticsciaus.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
“As the current slows down, it could impact the ocean’s ability to really absorb that extra heat and keep us protected, or keep us insulated from the impacts of global climate change.” - @taimoorsohail.bsky.social speaking on ABC Radio National Breakfast about his latest research ⬇️ bit.ly/43tMqfw
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Strongest ocean current set to slow as ice sheets melt - ABC listen
The world's strongest ocean current could be about to slow down, as melting ice sheets see an influx of fresh water dumped into the Southern Ocean.
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Matt King @deformedearth.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Hear Dr @taimoorsohail.bsky.social discuss this important work on Australia's ABC Radio National. So good for people across our nation to hear about this finding and the risks associated - nice job Taimoor! 🌊 www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
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Strongest ocean current set to slow as ice sheets melt - ABC listen
The world's strongest ocean current could be about to slow down, as melting ice sheets see an influx of fresh water dumped into the Southern Ocean.
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Taimoor Sohail @taimoorsohail.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
New research out today with colleagues Bishakhdatta Gayen and Andreas Klocker projects that the world’s strongest current, the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, may slow by 20% by 2050 in a high emissions future. So happy to have this out for the world to read! www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Earth’s strongest ocean current could slow down by 20% by 2050 in a high emissions future
Melting Antarctic ice is releasing cold, fresh water into the ocean, which is projected to cause the slowdown
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Matt King @deformedearth.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Antarctic melt may slow the world's largest ocean current - "far-reaching impacts on global climate patterns, oceanic heat distribution, and marine ecosystems”. More important work from @antarcticsciaus.bsky.social colleagues led by @taimoorsohail.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Earth’s strongest ocean current could slow down by 20% by 2050 in a high emissions future
Melting Antarctic ice is releasing cold, fresh water into the ocean, which is projected to cause the slowdown
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Navid C @navidcy.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Great piece by @taimoorsohail.bsky.social et al in The Conversation about the findings of their latest paper that just got out at Environmental Research Letters (doi.org/10.1088/1748...) regarding the biggest ocean current of all. 🌊 theconversation.com/melting-anta...
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Melting Antarctic ice will slow the world’s strongest ocean current – and the global consequences are profound
Part of the system that pumps water, heat and nutrients around the globe is at risk. Climate change could slow the Antarctic Circumpolar Current down 20% by 2050.
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Navid C @navidcy.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
This 👇🏼 is open for another 6 days! 🌊 🌏 Not sure if this is for you? Want to find more about the project? Are you on the fence? Do reach out..! 😊 We'll be using a new ocean model: github.com/CliMA/Oceana... github.com/CliMA/ClimaO... and collaborate with CliMA (clima.caltech.edu).
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Taimoor Sohail @taimoorsohail.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
After many years of long discussions, our paper on the new inverse method we call the Optimal Transformation Method (OTM) is finally out! With OTM, we can infer global ocean heat/freshwater transports, correct air-sea flux products, and more! Led by @janzika.bsky.social! doi.org/10.5194/gmd-...
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An optimal transformation method for inferring ocean tracer sources and sinks
Abstract. The geography of changes in the fluxes of heat, carbon, freshwater and other tracers at the sea surface is highly uncertain and is critical to our understanding of climate change and its imp...
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Claire Yung @claire-y.bsky.social · 11/12/2023
Hello Bluesky! My new paper with Ryan Holmes is out now in JPO: using a new method to analyse time-varying processes' contributions to ocean heat transport. We found some interesting results associated with vertical mixing variability. Read it here: journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...
Figure from journal article Yung & Holmes 2023 showing contributions of time-varying surface forcing and vertical mixing to diathermal heat transport at different timescales.
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Taimoor Sohail @taimoorsohail.bsky.social · 04/12/2023
Really proud of this work, which went from an idea back in August 2022, to a published piece this week! With co-authors Damien Irving, @janzika.bsky.social, and Jonathan Gregory, we explored the reduced impact of aerosols on our climate system: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
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Anthropogenic Aerosols Offsetting Ocean Warming Less Efficiently Since the 1980s
Since 1980, aerosol-driven ocean cooling has decelerated substantially, alongside a drop in ocean heat uptake efficiency The drop in ocean heat uptake efficiency is limited to the tropics, which ...
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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 14/11/2023
Love how Government (& universities) in Australia crow about the amount of funding & number of grants they provide for "world-class research". But these are tiiiiiny numbers! Basically 50 people working for 2–3 years. Peanuts🥜 More like "world-class underfunding, normalised".
Tweet from the Australian Research Council announcing the outcomes for the Linkage Projects 2023 (round 1) scheme. Just 50 projects were funded with $26 million in total.
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Taimoor Sohail @taimoorsohail.bsky.social · 14/11/2023
Great! Zenodo is down just as I'm finalising a manuscript revision. Seems like it's been down for a few days now so not sure when I'll get this submission in!
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Taimoor Sohail @taimoorsohail.bsky.social · 10/11/2023
Sad it took the High Court intervention to do this, but so so happy the inhumane detention system is being dismantled www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11...
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Willem Huiskamp @willemh.bsky.social · 08/11/2023
Disgraceful that it took this long, but what a welcome result.
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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
It's harder to get funding for basic research projects than ever before in Australia. The @arc_gov_au Discovery Projects scheme now has the lowest “success rate” ever: 16.3%. Only 1 in 6 grants are funded. Why? The funding available has plummeted. Please help, Jason Clare MP❗️
Graph showing funded providing to Australian Research Council Discovery Projects, and the success rate of proposals, each year since 2002. The success rate has declined sharply since 2020, and is now at its lowest point ever (16.3%). The funding in this graph has been adjusted for inflation to 2023$.
Data: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AyITNrCVt7pdLiUzyvC99q7l_X99rCS68r8_3i3h85s/edit?usp=sharing
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Willem Huiskamp @willemh.bsky.social · 25/10/2023
"It’s like eating caviar off a paper plate" It's bleak how many of us can probably see ourselves in this article
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Falling behind: postdocs in their thirties tire of putting life on hold
Temporary contracts, low salaries and cost-of-living hikes force many researchers to put off parenthood and other big decisions. Temporary contracts, low salaries and cost-of-living hikes force many r...
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Taimoor Sohail @taimoorsohail.bsky.social · 25/10/2023
Happy to have been asked to provide comments on a new and critical piece of work about Antarctic ice shelf melting for Nature Climate Change. Free link 👇 rdcu.be/dphfQ
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