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Vitus Benson

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Atmosphere-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
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RiskKAN @riskkan.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Great 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
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Tim Raupach @timraupach.com · 01/12/2025
How 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
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Olof Mogren @mogren.ml · 06/12/2025
Vitus Benson on atmospheric transport and inverse modeling of CO2. #aicc #eurips #eurips2025
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Kelley De Polt @kdepolt.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Our 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...
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Had 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...
David Greybeard, a wild chimpanzee, gets a handout of bananas from author Goodall, who studies the apes under a National Geographic Society grant. This scene near
her camp represents a triumph for Miss Goodall; at first the animals fled if she came
within 500 yards. Knapsack holds camera and notebook. She carries a whistle in her
pocket to summon searchers in case of accident in the rugged Tanganyika hills.
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Kai Kornhuber @kornhuber.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
An 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
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Kai Kornhuber @kornhuber.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Open 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
Open Call for Risk KAN Steering Committee Members
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Alexander 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.html
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W1-TT-W2 Artificial Intelligence - Georg-August-University Göttingen
Website of the Georg-August-University Göttingen
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Philine 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...
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Robert Rohde @rarohde.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Proposed 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...
Excerpt from proposed NOAA budget showing zero funding for Climate Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes
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Simon Clark @simonoxfphys.com · 20/06/2025
So @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/YfqvsVgtThQ
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We don't know what's happening with forests
YouTube video by Simon Clark
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Philine 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
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Ana Bastos @anabastos.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
How 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.social
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Constraining the time of emergence of anthropogenic signal in the global land carbon sink
Abstract. 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...
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Atmosphere-Biosphere-Coupling, Climate & Causality @abcube.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
New 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
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Carlos 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
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Jessica McKenzie @jessimckenzi.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Must-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-...
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How the dismantling of NOAA threatens the Keeling Curve
How 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...
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Tim Raupach @timraupach.com · 30/04/2025
Thank 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.
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Atmosphere-Biosphere-Coupling, Climate & Causality @abcube.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Our #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
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Vitus Benson @vitusbenson.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Wednesday @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! 😇
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Kai Kornhuber @kornhuber.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Great @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
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Vitus Benson @vitusbenson.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Just discovered that @fluxnet.bsky.social has a podcast now! 🤓🤩 open.spotify.com/show/5Czt3zA...
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Meet the Fluxers
Podcast · FLUXNET Outreach Working Group · Bridging the gap between eddy covariance flux scientists and those whose work or lives are influenced by flux data.
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Vitus Benson @vitusbenson.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
How AI may improve Early Warning Systems. Curious to hear your thoughts!
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 14/03/2025
The 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.
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Trump moves to close facility that helps track planet-warming pollution
The 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.
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Prof. Bob Howarth @profbobhowarth.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Just 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.
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HydrOrth Lab @hydrorth-lab.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
We 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....
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Disentangling Effects of Vegetation Structure and Physiology on Land–Atmosphere Coupling
This 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 ....
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ELLIS 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
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Ana Bastos @anabastos.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Same. 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...
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Vitus Benson @vitusbenson.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Come visit us in Jena ✨
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Image 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
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Marc 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
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Ghjulia Sialelli @ghjuliasialelli.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Excited 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.
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Vitus Benson @vitusbenson.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Call 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
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Vitus Benson @vitusbenson.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Consider 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
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Vitus Benson @vitusbenson.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Opened 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!)
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Vitus Benson @vitusbenson.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Global aerosol forecasting with transformers: by training on reanalysis, the ML model AI-GAMFS outperforms operational systems! arxiv.org/abs/2412.02498
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Advancing global aerosol forecasting with artificial intelligence
Aerosol 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...
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Nikolay Koldunov @oceanographer.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
A great example of ocean eddies and how much faster the atmosphere moves compared to the ocean! 🧪
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Vitus Benson @vitusbenson.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Can 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...
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Forecasting trends in food security with real time data - Communications Earth & Environment
Levels 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...
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Vitus Benson @vitusbenson.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Can 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.social
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Exploring the Use of Machine Learning Weather Models in Data Assimilation
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Kai Kornhuber @kornhuber.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
We 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
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Paula Harder @paulaharder.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Happy 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.
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Vitus Benson @vitusbenson.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Can 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...
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High-resolution greenhouse gas flux inversions using a machine learning surrogate model for atmospheric transport
Abstract. Quantifying greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is critically important for projecting future climate and assessing the impact of environmental policy. Estimating GHG emissions using atmospheric ...
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Vitus Benson @vitusbenson.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
How 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/2411.09654
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Vitus Benson @vitusbenson.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Can 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...
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ACE2: Accurately learning subseasonal to decadal atmospheric variability and forced responses
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Vitus Benson @vitusbenson.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Are 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...
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Contrasting local and global modeling with machine learning and satellite data: A case study estimating tree canopy height in African savannas
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Vitus Benson @vitusbenson.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Hi friends, to get started on here i'll post a paper a day on AI for Earth and Climate Science 😊
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