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#climatescience

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SellaTheChemist

In a PhD exam about atmospheric chemistry three weeks ago ,I asked the candidate what would happen if the US stopped collecting the data of the kind she had used in her thesis. A good discussion followed. Now here it is.
As expected from the Project 2025, the Trump administration prepares to completely gut NOAA and eliminate its climate monitoring and research. #climatescience #denial #vandalism

eenews.net/articles/white-hous

E&E News by POLITICO · White House outlines plan to gut NOAA, smother climate researchThe agency’s Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research would be “eliminated as a line office,” according to a memo from the Office of Management and
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Akshay

How is conservation preparing for a much hotter world?

“After centuries of destruction — deforestation, species extinction, wildlife decline — it would be something to build an age of restoration.

We’re not anywhere near that yet, but many conservationists are now using the tools of restoration…in hopes that it will also build resilience in a hotter, less forgiving world.”

news.mongabay.com/2025/04/how-

Mongabay Environmental News · How is conservation preparing for a much hotter world? Experts shareAbout 90 kilometers (56 miles) southeast of Cape Town lies the tranquilly-named town of Betty’s Bay in South Africa, home to less than 2,000 people. But it’s not the people that draw Nik Sekhran’s eye. “I enjoy watching the African oystercatchers,” says Sekhran, chief conservation officer at World Wildlife Fund (WWF). Big black birds with […]
#Biodiversity#Conservation#Nature
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Akshay

““Right now, our climate strategies bet on forests not only remaining intact, but even expanding,” Windisch says.

“However, with escalating wildfires like in California, and continued deforestation in the Amazon, that’s a gamble. Climate change itself puts forests’ immense carbon stores at risk.””

pik-potsdam.de/en/news/latest-

Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact ResearchLosing forest carbon stocks could put climate goals out of reach27.03.2025 - In the past, intact forests absorbed 7.8 billion tonnes of CO₂ annually – about a fifth of all human emissions – but their carbon storage is increasingly at risk from climate change and human activities such as deforestation. A new study from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) shows that failing to account for the potentially decreasing ability of forests to absorb CO₂ could make reaching the Paris agreement targets significantly harder, if not impossible, and much more costly.
#Forests#Climate#ClimateScience
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MPI für Meteorologie

Want to turn your research idea into a funded project with expert support? 🌍✍️

The #MPIM Incubator Program offers short, funded research stays (2 weeks–3 months) to help postdocs develop top-notch #proposals (Humboldt, MSCA, ERC & more) in an outstanding scientific environment.

Join us at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology & take your project idea to the next level.

More info: mpimet.mpg.de/en/career/fundin
#ClimateScience #Postdoc #Funding #ResearchOpportunity #EarthSystemScience #OpenScience

A group of scientists in a modern office is gathered around a computer looking at the screen.
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O=C=O

Regional climate signals pose new challenges for climate science

#ClimateScience has correctly predicted many aspects of the #climate system and its response to increased atmospheric #CarbonDioxide concentrations. Recently, discrepancies between the real world and our expectations of regional climate changes have emerged, as have disruptive new computational approaches.

What the authors describe as the dominant paradigm or "standard approach" of climate science has been developed over the last 60 years by applying fundamental laws of #physics to the climate system under the assumption that small-scale processes are determined by statistical averages dependent on large scales (parameterization).

As with the evolution of other scientific fields, discrepancies have emerged in climate science with respect to how regional #ClimateChange is evolving. For example, the eastern Tropical #Pacific has cooled contrary to all model predictions. Neither was the increased frequency of blocking weather conditions over #Greenland in summer anticipated.

In particular, discrepancies are accumulating in the tropics where changes in the large-scale tropical circulation are known to grow out of instabilities that occur at small and intermediate scales. These scale-coupling mechanisms do not operate in the current generation of #ClimateModels.

"The challenge for conceptual work will be to identify which physics missing from the standard approach is most important for regional changes, and how to incorporate it," says Stevens.

phys.org/news/2025-03-regional

Phys.org · Regional climate signals pose new challenges for climate scienceBy Denise Müller-Dum
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Ivi Choc

#FYI #PaulBeckwith video lecture and literature review

"Atmospheric rivers (ARs) are narrow, elongated regions of intense atmospheric moisture transport that are responsible for a large proportion of midlatitude extreme precipitation. [...] ARs will intensify due to warmer air’s ability to hold more moisture."

youtube.com/watch?v=rJxIFYqxAU0

YouTubeAtmospheric Rivers in the Sky are getting Bigger, Wetter, Longer, more Frequent - New Research ShowsBy Paul Beckwith
#climate#ClimateScience#climatechange
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nextGEMS

🏁 Final Day at The Final Countdown!
The last #nextGEMS #hackathon is wrapping up, and our participants are excited to present the results of their hard work over the past few days. 🚀

A highlight of the day? Some truly stunning #visualizations from the hackathon’s plotting challenge! Congrats to Matthias Aengenheyster for his winning #ICON data visualization. 🎉

What a journey it has been! Thanks to everyone who made this event successful 👏

Winning visualization of the plotting challenge by Matthias Aengenheyster
Presentation of the energy industry stakeholders participatng in the hackathon
Rumeng Li presenting her results on dust storms (Haboobs)
#ClimateScience#H2020#CINEA_EU
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MPI für Meteorologie

🌏 #ClimateScience has correctly predicted many aspects of global warming.🌡️ However, regional #ClimateChange poses a challenge. Discrepancies between the real world & our expectations have emerged. At the same time, disruptive #technologies have become available. 🧠 Tiffany Shaw (U Chicago) & #MPIM director Bjorn Stevens provide an interpretation for the situation 💡suggesting the field is evolving & that embracing discrepancies is a key path forward. ➡ mpimet.mpg.de/en/communication
#AI #HPC

An illustration of a globe, Africa and Europe are in the front, and different locations are highlighted with colors or hatching where real-world climate change and scientists' expectations didn't agree, e.g., Greenland, Europe, North Atlantic, and the Southern Ocean.
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