Reposted by Vitus BensonAtmosphere-Biosphere-Coupling, Climate & Causality @abcube.bsky.social · 06/05/2026📅 Thu, 07 May | 15:35–15:45 CEST |📍 Room 1.14 Mechanistic Interpretability for Mapping Ecosystem Functioning 🎤 Talk by @vitusbenson.bsky.social et al. | EGU26-20910 031
Reposted by Vitus BensonRiskKAN @riskkan.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Great to meet with friends and colleagues at the 2nd #RiskKAN Symposium held at #IIASA under the theme of ‘Resilience to Complex Climate Risks across Weather and Climate Many thanks to all participants and sponsors @futureearth.bsky.social @wcrpclimate.bsky.social #IRDR #WWRP 183
Reposted by Vitus BensonTim Raupach @timraupach.com · 01/12/2025How should decision-makers address extreme weather hazards when considering complex climate risks? At #EGU26, Ben Newell, @vitusbenson.bsky.social, @janasillmann.bsky.social and I are convening a session on interdisciplinary approaches. Abstract deadline 15 Jan! www.egu26.eu/session/57683 041
Reposted by Vitus BensonOlof Mogren @mogren.ml · 06/12/2025Vitus Benson on atmospheric transport and inverse modeling of CO2. #aicc #eurips #eurips2025 132
Reposted by Vitus BensonKelley De Polt @kdepolt.bsky.social · 17/10/2025Our preprint is now live and open for discussion on Open Research Europe! Empowering ECRs to Make Research Projects Flourish: Lessons from a European Research Project Read the full preprint here: doi.org/10.12688/ope...doi.org 152
Reposted by Vitus BensonDan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 01/10/2025Had never read Jane Goodall's original 1963 article in Nat Geo on the wild chimpanzees in Tanzania until now. It's a wonderful blend of science and journalism, and well worth your time. www.nationalgeographic.com/pdf/jane-goo... 2238
Reposted by Vitus BensonKai Kornhuber @kornhuber.bsky.social · 16/09/2025An amazing bunch to follow. If you’re interested in latest science, events or webinars about emerging risks from climate extremes, have a look at the @riskkan.bsky.social starter pack. @iiasa.ac.at @climate.columbia.edu 0104
Reposted by Vitus BensonKai Kornhuber @kornhuber.bsky.social · 04/09/2025Open call for new Steering Committee Members at @riskkan.bsky.social. We invite experts in relevant fields to self-nominate for the next term: www.risk-kan.org/about-riskka... Find out more at www.risk-kan.org and feel free to reach out in case of questions! @iiasa.ac.at @climate.columbia.edu 046
Reposted by Vitus BensonAlexander Ecker @aecker.bsky.social · 15/08/2025📢 We have an opening for a tenure track assistant professor position (W1 t.t. W2) in AI in our CS dept @uni-goettingen.de, Germany. ⏰ Application deadline: Sept 19 🗣️ Please share! uni-goettingen.de/en/697924.htmluni-goettingen.deW1-TT-W2 Artificial Intelligence - Georg-August-University GöttingenWebsite of the Georg-August-University Göttingen 174
Reposted by Vitus BensonPhiline Lou Bommer @philinelb.bsky.social · 05/08/2025🚨New paper 🚨 We are happy to announce that our paper “Deep Learning meets Teleconnections: Improving S2S Predictions for European Winter Weather” has been published at Machine Learning: Earth @ioppublishing.bsky.social 📄 iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1... 💻 github.com/philine-bomm...iopscience.iop.orgRadware Bot Manager CaptchaTo ensure we keep this website safe, please can you confirm you are a human by ticking the box below. 142
Reposted by Vitus BensonRobert Rohde @rarohde.bsky.social · 01/07/2025Proposed NOAA budget zeros out ALL climate laboratories and cooperative institutions. GFDL, NSSL, GML, etc. This appears to also end the US greenhouse gas sampling network, including at Mauna Loa, the oldest continuous carbon dioxide monitoring site on Earth. www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul... 40865633
Reposted by Vitus BensonSimon Clark @simonoxfphys.com · 20/06/2025So @esa.int invited to watch their new Biomass satellite launch, and it's one of the most amazing pieces of science I've seen youtu.be/YfqvsVgtThQyoutu.beWe don't know what's happening with forestsYouTube video by Simon Clark 2409
Reposted by Vitus BensonPhiline Lou Bommer @philinelb.bsky.social · 20/06/2025🚨Preprint alert 🚨 Why limit our view to a single concept when neurons potentially encode multiple concepts? 👀 Check out 🔎PRISM🔎, our new multi-concept interpretability framework for LLMs. Congratulations to @lkopf.bsky.social and the team! 📄: arxiv.org/abs/2506.15538 141
Reposted by Vitus BensonAna Bastos @anabastos.bsky.social · 20/05/2025How long does it take until we detect forced signals in global and regional land carbon fluxes? And can we use dynamical adjustment to reduce the noise and shorten the detection time? Check out LiNa's paper 👇 egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20... Co-advised by @sebastian-sippel.bsky.socialegusphere.copernicus.orgConstraining the time of emergence of anthropogenic signal in the global land carbon sinkAbstract. The global land carbon sink has increased since the preindustrial period, driven by increasing atmospheric CO2 concentration and climate change. However, detecting these anthropogenic signal... 1135
Reposted by Vitus BensonAtmosphere-Biosphere-Coupling, Climate & Causality @abcube.bsky.social · 13/05/2025New paper from our group! Winkler & Sierra propose a new path forward to Impulse Response Functions (IRFs) for Earth system modeling—capturing time- and state-dependencies critical for understanding carbon–climate feedbacks. 🌍🌀 Read more in Geophysical Research Letters: tinyurl.com/bdff3b6y 0102
Reposted by Vitus BensonCarlos Rodríguez - Pardo @carlosrodriguezp.bsky.social · 11/04/2025📯Calling all AI x Climate researchers! The CMCC Workshop on AI for Carbon (June 30-July 2, Lake Como) just opened their poster submissions! The venue and list of speakers are absolutely stunning 😍 More info: www.cmcc.it/lectures_con... #AI4Climate #CallForPosters @climatechangeai.bsky.social 0138
Reposted by Vitus BensonJessica McKenzie @jessimckenzi.bsky.social · 06/05/2025Must-read @thebulletin.org article by Eric Morgan & Ralph Keeling: The Keeling curve, which has continuously tracked atmospheric CO2 levels for *67* years, has always been vulnerable to funding ebbs and flows—but under Trump II, is facing its most dire threat yet thebulletin.org/2025/05/how-...thebulletin.orgHow the dismantling of NOAA threatens the Keeling CurveHow the Trump administration's dismantling of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration threatens the Keeling Curve, an iconic measure used in climate change research. As explained by the so... 26147
Reposted by Vitus BensonTim Raupach @timraupach.com · 30/04/2025Thank you to all the speakers and attendees to our #EGU25 session on interdisciplinary approaches to climate risk for weather extremes. Here is @janasillmann.bsky.social giving her excellent invited talk and outlining the importance of considering impacts when connecting science and decision making. 081
Reposted by Vitus BensonAtmosphere-Biosphere-Coupling, Climate & Causality @abcube.bsky.social · 29/04/2025Our #EGU25 contribution for tomorrow: 🌍 🗓️ Wed, 30 Apr | 16:15–18:00 CEST |📍 Hall X5 | Poster X5.93 📊 Recalibrating neural network estimates of net ecosystem exchange in a Bayesian synthesis inversion Poster by @vitusbenson.bsky.social et al. | EGU25-17329 062
Vitus Benson @vitusbenson.bsky.social · 29/04/2025Wednesday @egu.eu : - ITS2.6/CL0.4 with fantastic contributions on Extreme Climate Risks: Assessments & Forecasts @janasillmann.bsky.social @timraupach.com - AS3.44 with amazing studies about Greenhouse gases, in many cases leveraging AI @sanamnv.bsky.social @kaihcohrs.bsky.social Come by! 😇 030
Reposted by Vitus BensonKai Kornhuber @kornhuber.bsky.social · 29/04/2025Great @riskkan.bsky.social symposium and working group kick-off at @iiasa.ac.at yesterday. In case you are at @egu.eu feel free to reach out to me or @marleenderuiter.bsky.social to learn more and get involved. @futureearth.bsky.social @wcrpclimate.bsky.social @lamont.columbia.edu 0124
Vitus Benson @vitusbenson.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Just discovered that @fluxnet.bsky.social has a podcast now! 🤓🤩 open.spotify.com/show/5Czt3zA...open.spotify.comMeet the FluxersPodcast · FLUXNET Outreach Working Group · Bridging the gap between eddy covariance flux scientists and those whose work or lives are influenced by flux data. 040
Vitus Benson @vitusbenson.bsky.social · 18/03/2025How AI may improve Early Warning Systems. Curious to hear your thoughts! 002
Reposted by Vitus BensonThe Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 14/03/2025The Trump administration is planning to cancel its lease at a government laboratory in Hawaii, a site where scientists support key observations of surging greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere, according to a list obtained by Democratic members of Congress and shared with The Post.washingtonpost.comTrump moves to close facility that helps track planet-warming pollutionThe lab is connected to the Mauna Loa Observatory, where scientists gather data to produce the Keeling Curve, a chart on the daily status of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations. 127984552
Reposted by Vitus BensonProf. Bob Howarth @profbobhowarth.bsky.social · 14/03/2025Just heard that Trump is putting an end to atmospheric monitoring site NY67 that is run out of my lab. This is one of the oldest NADP sites in the US, continually measuring acid rain and other pollutants since 1977. Closing it down is tragic. 712488983
Reposted by Vitus BensonHydrOrth Lab @hydrorth-lab.bsky.social · 18/02/2025We would like to share a recent paper from group alumni, Wantong Li, entitled "Disentangling Effects of Vegetation Structure and Physiology on Land–Atmosphere Coupling" published in @globalchangebio.bsky.social ! 🌍🌿 Read more: doi.org/10.1111/gcb....doi.orgDisentangling Effects of Vegetation Structure and Physiology on Land–Atmosphere CouplingThis study investigates the regulation of vegetation structure and physiology in land-atmosphere interactions. Using an explainable machine learning approach, we quantify the importance of leaf area .... 043
Reposted by Vitus BensonELLIS unit Jena @ellisunitjena.bsky.social · 03/02/2025🚀 Registration Now Open for the @ELLISforEurope Summer School: AI for Earth & Climate Sciences! 🌍🤖 Join us in Jena, Germany from September 1–5, 2025 📅 Apply now through March 31. Notifications by April. 🔗 www.ellis-jena.eu/summer-schoo... 🎯 @uni-jena.de, @MPI-BGC, @carlzeissstiftung.bsky.social 02115
Reposted by Vitus BensonAna Bastos @anabastos.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Same. Yesterday in my last lecture of the semester, we discussed the importance of defending science and knowledge against the rising threats globally. CO2 will keep rising if we don't do anything about it, and it will keep warming the planet. With or without a website. It's just plain physics... 23216
Reposted by Vitus BensonImage and Signal Processing • ISP @isp-uv-es.bsky.social · 29/01/2025🌍 New paper: Generative networks for spatio-temporal #gap_filling of #Sentinel2 reflectances @esa.int. 🆓 Free access the first 50 days to the #ISPRS paper @elsevierconnect.bsky.social: isp-uv.short.gy/GapFillingSe... Work developed in the context of Xaida Project. #AI #EarthObservation 1176
Reposted by Vitus BensonMarc Rußwurm @marccoru.bsky.social · 13/01/2025🚨📢 Call for short and tiny Papers 🚨📢 for the third Machine Learning for Remote Sensing workshop at ICLR 2025 in Singapore! Deadline in 3 weeks on February 3rd! Check the website ⬇️ for submission details ml-for-rs.github.io/iclr2025/ @iclr-conf.bsky.social 11815
Reposted by Vitus BensonGhjulia Sialelli @ghjuliasialelli.bsky.social · 27/01/2025Excited to share that the first paper of my PhD has been accepted for publication at the ISPRS Geospatial Week 2025! This dataset paper introduces a globally representative, high-resolution (10m) benchmark dataset for Above Ground Biomass estimation. 2255
Vitus Benson @vitusbenson.bsky.social · 07/01/2025Call for abstracts: EGU25 Session on Early Warning Systems! Submit until Jan 15th: meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio... w/ Markus Reichstein, @shrutinath97.bsky.social, @carinafearnley.bsky.social & Dorothea Frank 011
Vitus Benson @vitusbenson.bsky.social · 06/01/2025Consider submitting to our EGU25 Session AS5.6 Machine Learning for Carbon Cycle Research! Deadline Jan 15th - you know the drill 😉 @kaihcohrs.bsky.social @hongmeili.bsky.social 122
Vitus Benson @vitusbenson.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Opened photoshop for the first time in a while - what do you all think of our EGU ad? 😌 (also, if you work on early warning, please consider submitting!) 110
Vitus Benson @vitusbenson.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Global aerosol forecasting with transformers: by training on reanalysis, the ML model AI-GAMFS outperforms operational systems! arxiv.org/abs/2412.02498arxiv.orgAdvancing global aerosol forecasting with artificial intelligenceAerosol forecasting is essential for air quality warnings, health risk assessment, and climate change mitigation. However, it is more complex than weather forecasting due to the intricate interactions... 040
Reposted by Vitus BensonNikolay Koldunov @oceanographer.bsky.social · 04/12/2024A great example of ocean eddies and how much faster the atmosphere moves compared to the ocean! 🧪 0203
Vitus Benson @vitusbenson.bsky.social · 28/11/2024Can ML help warn before food security crisis? 🤔 Herteux et al. forecast food insecurity 60-days in advance for Mali, Nigeria, Syria and Yemen with reservoir computing. While their model outperforms many baselines, still a large gap at longer lead times remains. www.nature.com/articles/s43...nature.comForecasting trends in food security with real time data - Communications Earth & EnvironmentLevels of food consumption for the next 60 consecutive days can be forecast for Mali, Nigeria, Syria, and Yemen, using a machine-learning methodology that combines publicly available ecological, socia... 020
Vitus Benson @vitusbenson.bsky.social · 27/11/2024Can we infer initial conditions from observations by backpropagating through ML weather emulators? 🤔 Tian et al. test GraphCast & NeuralGCM in 4DVar data assimilation: both models show unphysical noise, which questions their applicability for DA. arxiv.org/html/2411.14... @xiaoxutian.bsky.socialarxiv.orgExploring the Use of Machine Learning Weather Models in Data Assimilation 070
Reposted by Vitus BensonKai Kornhuber @kornhuber.bsky.social · 20/11/2024We are excited to announce our #EGU25 session on 'Advances in physical climate risk assessment for the financial and insurance sectors.' Abstracts: meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio... @iiasa.ac.at @columbiaclimate.bsky.social @eurogeosciences.bsky.social @nickleach.bsky.social 053
Reposted by Vitus BensonPaula Harder @paulaharder.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Happy to be a co-convener for the "ML for Climate Science" session together with @dwatsonparris.bsky.social, Peer Nowack, Gustau Camp-Valls + Tom Beucler at #EGU25. We are honored to have @lauramansfield.bsky.social as a speaker. Looking forward to your abstract submissions. 0257
Vitus Benson @vitusbenson.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Can ML be used to infer CO2 sources from concentrations? 🤔 Dadheech et al. do high-resolution CO2 inversions in San Francisco Bay with a UNet to produce footprints - speed up: 650x ! --> scaling up globally becomes increasingly feasible. egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...egusphere.copernicus.orgHigh-resolution greenhouse gas flux inversions using a machine learning surrogate model for atmospheric transportAbstract. Quantifying greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is critically important for projecting future climate and assessing the impact of environmental policy. Estimating GHG emissions using atmospheric ... 020
Vitus Benson @vitusbenson.bsky.social · 24/11/2024How are ecological parameters changing in space? 🤔 Fang et al. directly predict parameters of the new terrestrial biosphere model DifferLand from environmental covariates with gradient decent - resulting and new spatial patterns! arxiv.org/abs/2411.09654arxiv.org 040
Vitus Benson @vitusbenson.bsky.social · 23/11/2024Can large neural networks be used for stable climate emulation? 🤔 Watt-Meyer et al. developed ACE2, an atmospheric model that produces arbitrary long stable & mass-conserving rollouts by leveraging Spherical Fourier Neural Operators. arxiv.org/html/2411.11...arxiv.orgACE2: Accurately learning subseasonal to decadal atmospheric variability and forced responses 091
Vitus Benson @vitusbenson.bsky.social · 22/11/2024Are geospatial foundation models actually useful? 🤔 Rolf et al. find a small MLP trained on curated local lidar data to outperform published tree canopy height maps & fine-tuned foundation models in a case study in south-eastern Africa. @estherrolf.bsky.social arxiv.org/html/2411.14...arxiv.orgContrasting local and global modeling with machine learning and satellite data: A case study estimating tree canopy height in African savannas 0111
Vitus Benson @vitusbenson.bsky.social · 22/11/2024Hi friends, to get started on here i'll post a paper a day on AI for Earth and Climate Science 😊 0140