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Corwin Wright @corwinwright.bsky.social · 2d

Giving an undergraduate lecture on the outer planets, and it feels weird to introduce Uranus as "discovered near the big Sainsburys'". However, since it was discovered in Bath, they all live here but won't know the street name, and that's the nearest major landmark...

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Corwin Wright @corwinwright.bsky.social · 26d

I am currently writing a set of *three* lectures in which I describe the whole atmosphere from surface to geocorona for an audience of electrical engineers. It is ... compressed. After this I get another set of three lectures to cover all solar and space physics, then one lecture for the planets.

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Corwin Wright @corwinwright.bsky.social · Sep 11

Just to contradict the tube strike horror stories, this is my trip from King's Cross to Paddington (Thameslink then Elizabeth Line) at 4.45pm during today's strike. Not quite sure where all the people are - maybe scared off by the crowds earlier in the week?

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AGU (American Geophysical Union) @agu.org · Sep 6

✨Editor's Pick✨

In JGR: Atmospheres, a new high-resolution global model is used to study predictability of atmospheric circulation from the Earth's surface up to 120 kilometers.

🔗 Learn more in @eos.org: buff.ly/Hbe4kx4

#AGUPubs #Atmosphere

Quantifying Predictability of the Middle Atmosphere - Eos

A new high-resolution global model is used to study predictability of atmospheric circulation from the surface to 120 kilometers.

buff.ly

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Corwin Wright @corwinwright.bsky.social · Sep 2

The first time I did fluid dynamics was in my PhD in atmospheric physics...

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Jack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social · Aug 17

I'll admit, I was skeptical when they said Gemini was just like a bunch of PhDs. But I gotta admit they nailed it.

Google's Gemini AI tells a Redditor it's 'cautiously optimistic' about fixing a coding bug, fails repeatedly, calls itself an embarrassment to 'all possible and impossible universes' before repeating 'I am a disgrace' 86 times in succession

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Corwin Wright @corwinwright.bsky.social · Aug 15

It turns out that satellites behave rather oddly when the Earth is 1000x less heavy than it should be. That was a delightfully challenging typo to find in the several hundred lines of orbit scanning code I'd written.

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Corwin Wright @corwinwright.bsky.social · Aug 13

Exciting! Might be worth a chat about this at some point? I think you discussed it being potentially useful for wave stuff with Phoebe when you were both in Boulder a few weeks ago.

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Corwin Wright @corwinwright.bsky.social · Aug 4

As a result of basically constant work travel for the last few months, I have upgraded the essentially-standard description of my inbox when I beg for forgiveness for delayed replies from "a bit of a bin fire" to "radioactive".

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Tim Woollings @timwoollings.bsky.social · Jul 29

Job alert: we are looking for a postdoc to join the Atmospheric Dynamics group in Oxford to study Arctic atmospheric dynamics. The focus is on energy transfers between scales and implications for predictability. More details here: tinyurl.com/yc6h4b35

Job Details

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Corwin Wright @corwinwright.bsky.social · Jul 23

FAAM science flight (@ncas-uk.bsky.social) currently up over the Alps with all three mission scientists aboard from
@uniofbath.bsky.social @caer-bath.bsky.social - hopefully Neil Hindley, Phoebe Noble and Tim Banyard will get some good data to help make the @metoffice.gov.uk model better :-)

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Corwin Wright @corwinwright.bsky.social · Jul 19

Is this a better or worse name than my old one?

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Corwin Wright @corwinwright.bsky.social · Jul 15

I nearly went for "Isles Anglo-Normand" after a minute or two of searching as it was a form to enter my phone number and at least they have the same phone prefix as the UK...

Corwin Wright @corwinwright.bsky.social · Jul 15

The most irritating one today was "Royaume Uni" near the bottom next to "Etats-Unis", clearly because someone set it to use English word order but with the French names displayed ... on the same page as another menu where it was "Grande Bretagne", in the right alphabetical place for French.

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Corwin Wright @corwinwright.bsky.social · Jul 15

Changed my phone's OS language to be in French a few days ago as I really need the practice - my vocab is slipping badly. The worst bit? FINDING MY HOME COUNTRY'S NAME IN INTERNET DROPDOWN FORMS.

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Juan Antonio Añel Cabanelas @aetherlux.bsky.social · Jul 7

Extremely important this post by @edhawkins.org.
We are about to lose our main data source for the middle and upper atmosphere, TIMED/SABER. We are in extreme need for monitoring of the higher part the atmosphere.
Our @issibern.ch Team pointed it out a couple of months ago:
doi.org/10.1029/2024...

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · Jul 7

On 9th July, @esa.int are choosing their next Earth Explorer mission. One of the proposals (CAIRT) would provide the capability to measure the upper atmosphere but not launched for several years.

There are no easy choices, but we could lose our ability to monitor this region for an extended period.

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · Jul 7

It is now possible that the NASA satellites that monitor changes in the stratosphere and mesosphere will be phased out from October, depending on budget discussions.

If TIMED & Aura do get shut down then this would abruptly end climate monitoring of these altitudes.

arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · Jul 7

The Warming Stripes have been extended again into the mesosphere to help highlight risks to our climate monitoring capabilities.

Like the stratosphere, the mesosphere is cooling due to the greenhouse effect & also shows solar cycle variations. (Thanks to @sosprey.bsky.social for the data.)

But...

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Corwin Wright @corwinwright.bsky.social · Jul 2

Saw a sign coming into the airport saying my flight was cancelled and to contact staff. Went to talk to the staff. Somehow I had misread the entry for *both* the wrong airline *and* at the wrong time and my plane is very much not cancelled, and thus the poor lady was very confused as a result.

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Corwin Wright @corwinwright.bsky.social · Jun 16

Tempted to go for the kid's package just so I can turn up at day one of the project meeting with a unicorn balloon.

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Corwin Wright @corwinwright.bsky.social · Jun 16

Booked a hotel for a work trip to ESTEC to discuss satellite design. After receiving my booking the hotel sent me this response. I think I am not their usual type of guest.

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Corwin Wright @corwinwright.bsky.social · May 18

This is also what my students say :-(

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Corwin Wright @corwinwright.bsky.social · May 8

Thanks Acrobat, without you I don't know if I could manage to read *eight whole pages at double-line spacing.*

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Corwin Wright @corwinwright.bsky.social · May 4

Outgoing tricky to define - 15hrs travel time, but I took a short holiday halfway so a 10hr leg, then a couple of days off, then a 5hr leg. Back was a straight 16.5hrs in one go, but would normally be ~1hr shorter as the Frankfurt->Brussels leg rerouted an extra ~200km round a planned track closure.

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