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UK Earth System Model @ukesm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“The Rapid Evaluation Framework brings together climate scientists and Earth observation researchers to quickly check how accurately climate simulations reflect reality. The better we can do that, the more reliable our picture of future climate change” climate.esa.int/en/news-even...
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New tool accelerates climate model assessment
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UK Earth System Model @ukesm.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Read this excellent CarbonBrief article if you want to know the facts and evidence behind climate change.
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Future Impacts, Risks and Mitigation Actions in a changing Earth @terrafirmaclimate.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Climate models are getting more powerful and more complex. But how do scientists know they're performing well? 🔍🌍 Our UKESM expert contributed to explain how benchmarking builds confidence in the models that inform our understanding of climate change. eos.org/editors-vox/... eos.org/editors-vox/...
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Climate Model Benchmarking: Building Trust and Advancing Science - Eos
A critical look at how well climate models work, how to successfully use them, and the anticipated challenges for their next-generation development.
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UK Earth System Model @ukesm.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
📢 Help shape the future of #UKESM! If you use UKESM models, data or science in your work, please take 10 minutes to complete our survey. Your feedback will help strengthen model development, improve user support and demonstrate the value of continued investment in UKESM. 📝 forms.gle/KB9QJQEwJys2...
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Help shape the future of UK Earth System Modelling
We’re reaching out to the UKESM community to better understand how UKESM models, data, and science are being used across research, training, policy, and other applications. Your input will help us str...
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Future Impacts, Risks and Mitigation Actions in a changing Earth @terrafirmaclimate.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
🌊 New research explored how the North Atlantic subpolar gyre & its phytoplankton bloom might respond to different levels of global warming, and identified a possible tipping threshold. terrafirma.ac.uk/limiting-war... 📖 Read doi.org/10.1029/2025... @noc.ac.uk @dryool.bsky.social @ukesm.bsky.social
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Limiting warming to 1.5-2°C could protect a vital North Atlantic ecosystem
A possible tipping threshold for a key North Atlantic ecosystem has been identified in a new study led by researchers at the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) and the TerraFIRMA project.
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Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Further to a post from last week, we've now got a shiny press release for our work using the @ukesm.bsky.social model on the recovery of the #Phytoplankton bloom of the #NorthAtlantic #SubpolarGyre after reaching #NetZero at different warming levels ... 🌊
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New study identifies a possible tipping threshold for a key North Atlantic ecosystem | National Oceanography Centre
Limiting warming could help protect one of the ocean’s most important ecosystems, according to new research led by the National Oceanography Centre (NOC).
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Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
🚨New publication alert!🚨 🌊 My colleague, Sophy Oliver (et al.) used idealised @tipmip.bsky.social simulations of the @ukesm.bsky.social model to study the fate of the #NorthAtlantic #SubpolarGyre and its recovery following #NetZero after reaching different temperatures. Reader: it does not end well.
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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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UK Earth System Model @ukesm.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
We're hiring a (Senior) Scientist in Earth System Modelling. Check out the links below, apply now, and share! @metoffice.gov.uk @horizoneu.bsky.social 📆 Closing date: 26 June 2026 📍 Exeter HQ Met Office 🌐 careers.metoffice.gov.uk/join-us/sear... careers.metoffice.gov.uk/join-us/sear...
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UK Earth System Model @ukesm.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Call for Early Career Researchers: Join and Lead Fresh Eyes on CMIP (Deadline: 30 May 2026) www.wcrp-climate.org/news/wcrp-ne...
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Call for ECRs: Join and Lead Fresh Eyes on CMIP (Deadline: 30 May 2026)
The Coupled Model Intercomparision Project (CMIP) is pleased to announce an open call for new members and leadership nominations for Fresh Eyes on CMIP, CMIP's early career scientist group. This is a...
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CMIP ─ Coupled Model Intercomparison Project @wcrp-cmip.org · 05/05/2026
🌍 Help shape CMIP – join Fresh Eyes today Fresh Eyes on CMIP bring together climate scientists, data users, and tool developers to improve accessibility, usability, and impact. ✅ Flexible time commitment ✅ Influence community practice ✅ Leadership opportunities 👉 Join us: zurl.co/kBHJ5
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Future Impacts, Risks and Mitigation Actions in a changing Earth @terrafirmaclimate.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
We're looking forward to the upcoming @egu.eu EGU26 from 3–8 May! Explore our TerraFIRMA & UKESM related talks and posters: terrafirma.ac.uk/terrafirma-a... @ukesm.bsky.social
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TerraFIRMA and UKESM at EGU26
TerraFIRMA and UKESM researchers will take part in the General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union (EGU26) from Sunday 3 May until Friday 8 May 2026 in Vienna, Austria.
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UK Earth System Model @ukesm.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
We're looking forward to the upcoming @egu.eu EGU26 from 3–8 May! Explore our UKESM & TerraFIRMA related talks and posters: ukesm.ac.uk/2026/05/01/u... @terrafirmaclimate.bsky.social
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UKESM and TerraFIRMA at EGU26
UKESM and TerraFIRMA researchers will take part in the General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union (EGU26) from Sunday 3 May until Friday 8 May 2026 in Vienna, Austria.
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Future Impacts, Risks and Mitigation Actions in a changing Earth @terrafirmaclimate.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
🌍Post-doctoral research opportunity on Earth-System modeling and ice sheet-climate interactions @cnrisac.bsky.social @eu-liquidice.bsky.social ⏲️Deadline: 10 May 🌐More info: selezionionline.cnr.it/jconon/call-... docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Selezioni online Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Contratti di Ricerca - CR 01 ISAC BO
Selezioni online Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
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Future Impacts, Risks and Mitigation Actions in a changing Earth @terrafirmaclimate.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
📚PhD scholarship opportunity on Multi-scale modelling of #climatechange impacts on Mediterranean coastal systems at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice in collaboration with the Italian National Research Council & @cnrisac.bsky.social 🌐More info: www.unive.it/web/en/2161/... csrcc.it/fileadmin/us...
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PhD Degrees: Annual Call
PhD Degrees - Annual Call
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Future Impacts, Risks and Mitigation Actions in a changing Earth @terrafirmaclimate.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
📣 Rapid Evaluation Framework #REF was recently launched. This free-to-use tool enables scientists to rapidly assess how accurately climate models represent the real world 🌐 Read more terrafirma.ac.uk/rapid-evalua... @nceoscience.bsky.social @wcrp-cmip.org #CMIP #CMIP7 #IPCC #ClimateModels
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Rapid Evaluation Framework launched
The Rapid Evaluation Framework (REF) enables scientists to rapidly assess how accurately climate models represent the real world.
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ELLIS unit Jena @ellisunitjena.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
⚪𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗣𝗵𝗗 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝘁 𝗠𝗣𝗜-𝗕𝗚𝗖 - 𝗛𝘆𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗱 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺-𝗔𝘁𝗺𝗼𝘀𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗯𝗼𝗻 & 𝗪𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗙𝗹𝘂𝘅𝗲𝘀 3-year PhD at the @bgc-jena.mpg.de within the GENAI-X project as part of the ELLIS Unit Jena. ‼️Apply until April 9: www.bgc-jena.mpg.de/en/career/02...
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PhD Candidate (m/f/d) | Hybrid Modelling for Ecosystem-Atmosphere Carbon & Water Fluxes
PhD Candidate (m/f/d) Hybrid Modelling for Ecosystem-Atmosphere Carbon & Water Fluxes
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UK Earth System Model @ukesm.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
🌍CLIMERI-France is hiring a Scientific officer for the coordination of their research infrastructure on climate modeling. 📆Application deadline: 10 April 2026 🌐More info: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
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Portail Emploi CNRS - Job offer - Scientific officer for the coordination of the CLIMERI-France research infrastructure on climate modeling (M/F)
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RESCUE Climate @rescueclimate.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Women scientists' role in the climate research field is increasingly prominent, although they remain under-represented. On 1st April 2026 at 14:00 CET, we bring visibility to the work of women climate researchers through our Collaboration Workshop! Register: buff.ly/AEIPiWq Info: buff.ly/zRKvR9s
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 05/03/2026
NEW ANALYSIS: UK emissions fell 2.4% in 2025 as coal fell to a 400-year low. Incredibly, we used less coal last year than than in 1600, when Queen Elizabeth I was on the throne and Shakespeare was writing Hamlet. All the details in our article: www.carbonbrief.org/...
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UK Earth System Model @ukesm.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
🚀 We're hiring! Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Earth System Modelling: develop the UKESM2 model and use it to investigate tipping points. 📍 Grade 7 (£41,064–£48,822) Location: Met Office, Exeter 🌍 Apply today! jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx... Closes: 26 February
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Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Research Fellow in Earth System Modelling
Research Fellow in Earth System ModellingSalary: Grade 7 (£41,064 – £48,822 p.a. depending on experience)Location: Met Office, Exeter (with scope for hybrid working)Would you like to join a team asses...
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UK Earth System Model @ukesm.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
🚀 We're hiring a Scientific Software Engineer! Join the UKESM team to help develop and optimise the next generation UK Earth System Model for tipping point research. 💼 Grade 7 (£41k–£48k) Location: Met Office, Exeter 🌍 Apply today! jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx... Closes: 26 February.
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Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Scientific Software Engineer in Earth System Modelling
Scientific Software Engineer in Earth System ModellingSalary: Grade 7 (£41,064 – £48,822 p.a. depending on experience)Location: Met Office, Exeter (with scope for hybrid working)Are you keen to apply ...
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UK Earth System Model @ukesm.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
We’ve refreshed our UKESM website with clearer navigation and easier access to key resources. Feel free to explore the new layout and tell us what else you’d like to see👀💻📱 ukesm.ac.uk
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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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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 20/11/2025
Nature security is shared security. On 20 Nov, join us at the UK Pavilion to explore how protecting biodiversity—from the Amazon to the UK—strengthens global resilience. • Stability • Climate • Health Watch the event live here: youtube.com/live/g1L6RB3...
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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
At #COP30 today - Wildfires: Science, Stories, and Strategies for Resilience in Amazonia UKCEH with Fundacion Avina, Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and University of East Anglia UK Pavilion or livestream: www.youtube.com/live/VNg-QCfYbvQ
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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Wildfires are becoming a defining climate-related challenge. Their inclusion in the UNFCCC Loss & Damage framework is essential, researchers say. New in @commsearth.nature.com buff.ly/nNXUyyU UKCEH co-author Maria Barbosa is at #COP30 next week to discuss #wildfires science 🔥
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Recognition of Loss & Damage from wildfires is key for climate justice - Communications Earth & Environment
Wildfires are becoming one of the defining climate-related crises of the twenty-first century. We argue that their inclusion in the Loss & Damage framework of the United Nations Framework Convention…
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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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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 16/10/2025
Report reveals climate change increased likelihood of Southern California’s wildfires 🔥 The State of Wildfires report, co-led by the Met Office, @ukceh.bsky.social, @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social & @ecmwf.int evidences the link between climate change and wildfire activity. Read more⬇️
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Severe heatwaves and droughts are making extreme wildfires more frequent and intense worldwide
The latest State of Wildfire report is building unequivocal evidence of how climate change is increasing the frequency and severity of extreme wildfires.
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Future Impacts, Risks and Mitigation Actions in a changing Earth @terrafirmaclimate.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
TerraFIRMA & UKESM project member Dr Douglas Kelley introduced the latest State of Wildfires report he co-led🔥🌍
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ESM2025 @esm2025.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Day 3. GA's last morning: Wrap-up & perspectives with @rolandseferian.bsky.social and others. 4.5 years together. In a little over a month the project ends. Today we celebrate what we built in science and in community. #ESM2025inToulouse is over.
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ESM2025 @esm2025.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Back from our vegan lunch — espresso kicks in. Two rooms, two workshops: •TCRE- @chrisd-jones.bsky.social @metoffice.gov.uk •ESM Challenges: Complexity, Resolution & AI - chaired by Colin Jones @universityofleeds.bsky.social with presentations for various ESM2025 researchers. #ESM2025inToulouse
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ESM2025 @esm2025.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
GA Day2 kicks off!☕☀️ Keynote#3 "RCMIP2-a framework for simple climate modelling in the IPCC 7th assess & beyond" Why Coordinated Calibration Matters? ➡️It allows us to separate the influence of model structure from calibration choices. @benmsanderson.bsky.social @cicero.oslo.no #ESM2025inToulouse
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ESM2025 @esm2025.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Now onto 2 collaborative workshops for the community: 📈 Improving the assessment of the transient climate response to cumulative CO₂ chaired by @chrisd-jones.bsky.social @uniofreading.bsky.social 📊: Model Selection workshop, chaired by Eleanor O'Rourke @wcrp-cmip.org #ESM2025inToulouse
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ESM2025 @esm2025.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Back from lunch at #ESM2025inToulouse! "The REF is a complete end to end system providing a systematic & rapid performance assess. of the expected models participating in the CMIP Assess. Fast Track, supporting the next IPCC AR7 cycle." Ranjini Swaminathan @uniofreading.bsky.social @wcrp-cmip.org
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UK Earth System Model @ukesm.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
The UKESM team is participating in #ESM2025inToulouse and looks forward to the gathering, sharing and discussion.🌐
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UK Earth System Model @ukesm.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
The UKESM team is participating in ESM2025 and looks forward to the gathering, sharing and discussion.🌐
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Future Impacts, Risks and Mitigation Actions in a changing Earth @terrafirmaclimate.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
A rewarding day out helping to maintain hedge guards with @ncas-uk.bsky.social at #GairWood @universityofleeds.bsky.social 🌱🌳 #Conservation #Volunteering
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Kaitlin Naughten @kaitlinnaughten.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
The Greenland Ice/Ocean Modeller (supervised by me) will advance the @ukesm.bsky.social's representation of Greenland's meltwater release to the ocean, and study implications for the collapse of the North Atlantic Subpolar Gyre: bas.ciphr-irecruit.com/applicants/v...
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British Antarctic Survey Careers | Greenland Ice/Ocean Modeller
Two post-doctoral research positions in ocean and ice sheet modelling:   Greenland Ice/Ocean Modeller and Ice Modeller/Emulation Scientist
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UK Earth System Model @ukesm.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
YESS, the Young Earth System Scientists community, is an interdisciplinary, international, bottom-up early career researchers (ECR) network in Earth system science, collaborating & exchanging on a range of themes through webinars, workshops, learning groups, etc. Find out more www.yess-community.org
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Young Earth System Scientists – community
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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 26/08/2025
Provisional statistics from the Met Office show that summer 2025 will ‘almost certainly’ be the warmest summer on record for the UK. It would move 2018 off the top spot and relegate 1976 out of the top five warmest summer in a series which dates back to 1884. 👉 www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...
Photograph of bright sun in a clear blue sky with clouds at the bottom. Text reads: 'Met Office NEWS RELEASE 26 August 2025 – This summer will ‘almost certainly’ be warmest on record for the UK.'
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Future Impacts, Risks and Mitigation Actions in a changing Earth @terrafirmaclimate.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Check out new research papers from TerraFIRMA and UKESM at terrafirma.ac.uk/resources/ 🌐 @terrafirmaclimate.bsky.social @ukesm.bsky.social
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Future Impacts, Risks and Mitigation Actions in a changing Earth @terrafirmaclimate.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
New modelling highlights how the Amazon's rich biodiversity evolved & the growing threat posed by human activities🌳Study uses new method to integrate archaeological & geoscientific data into climate models, reconstructing past human-environment interactions—featured in a German Archaeology magazine.
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UK Earth System Model @ukesm.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
🌍21st June is #ShowYourStripes day. The bar chart shows the temperature change in the UK up to 2024 compared to the average of 1961-2010 showyourstripes.info 2024 was the warmest year on record. 📣Take action! www.un.org/en/actnow/te...
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PIK_climate @pik-potsdam.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
New paper shows the pace of global warming has roughly doubled since the 1980s. Led by @piersforster.bsky.social, over 60 scientists have worked to update "Indicators of Global Climate Change" - including PIK researchers @wflamb.bsky.social and Jan Minx. www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...
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Pace of warming has doubled since 1980s
19.06.2025 – The rate of global heating in the period 2012-2024 has roughly doubled from the 1980s according to the latest peer-reviewed update of “Indicators of Global Climate Change” published today...
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Future Impacts, Risks and Mitigation Actions in a changing Earth @terrafirmaclimate.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
The marine heatwave in the seas around the UK and Ireland has soared this week, with some areas now 4°C warmer than normal, impacting marine life, fisheries & swimming activities🌊 Scientists predict 2025 will be one of the hottest years🌡️ @noc.ac.uk @metoffice.bsky.social www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Marine heatwave: UK sea temperatures soar after exceptionally warm Spring
Sea temperatures in some areas off the UK and Ireland are 4C above average.
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UK Earth System Model @ukesm.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
"UKESM1 simulates all these steps, with advanced representation of atmospheric chemistry, physical climate processes, and the global carbon cycle... The important findings in this study would not have been possible without use of such an advanced Earth system model..." – Prof. Colin Jones
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Future Impacts, Risks and Mitigation Actions in a changing Earth @terrafirmaclimate.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
In an era of AI, why does explainable machine learning still matter for #wildfire prediction? ECMWF scientist Joe McNorton takes us inside the Probability of Fire (PoF) system to uncover the drivers of fire activity🔥 terrafirma.ac.uk/integrating-... @ukesm.bsky.social
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Integrating Land Surface Modelling and Machine Learning for Wildfire Prediction
The Probability of Fire (PoF) model plays a vital role in wildfire attribution.
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National Centre for Atmospheric Science @ncas-uk.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
We're hiring! Join our team in Reading as a post-doctoral scientist. Work on the PROMOTE project to develop innovative methods to represent and evaluate climate tipping points in a leading Earth system model. Apply by 20 May 📆 ncas.ac.uk/job-opportun...
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Job Opportunity: Research Scientist - NCAS
We are looking for a Research Scientist to join our team at the University of Reading.
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