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Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (AMOS)

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Advancing the scientific understanding of the atmosphere, oceans and climate system, and their socioeconomic and ecological impacts, and promote applications of this understanding for the benefit of all Australians.

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Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (AMOS) @amosupdates.bsky.social · 22d

🌏 Calling Potential Partners for AMOS2026 🌊

📄 Please refer to our attached Sponsorship Opportunities brochure for details.
🤝 Feel free to reach out if you’re interested or have any questions - we’d be happy to discuss how we can work together.

#AMOS2026 #ClimateScience #Meteorology #Oceanography

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Andrew B. Watkins @windjunky.bsky.social · 23d

The National Climate Risk Assessment is now live:
www.acs.gov.au/pages/nation...

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Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (AMOS) @amosupdates.bsky.social · 22d

Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (AMOS) @amosupdates.bsky.social · 27d

⏰ Final reminder!

Don’t miss your chance to present in Hobart next February 🌏🌊

Abstract submissions for AMOS 2026 close on 14 September 2025.

🔗 For more information : amos2026.oa-event.com/submit

#AMOS2026 #Climatescience #Oceanography #Atmosphere #Meteorology

Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (AMOS) @amosupdates.bsky.social · Sep 3

🌟 Abstracts Now Open!
📍 AMOS 2026 – Southern Skies, Southern Seas: Science on the Edge
📅 32nd Conference of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society
🗓️ Submission Deadline: 14 September 2025

🔗 amos2026.oa-event.com/submit

#AMOS2026 #Meteorology#Atmosphere#Oceanography #ClimateScience

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Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (AMOS) @amosupdates.bsky.social · Jul 15

🔍 AMOS is looking for a new Social Media Officer

If you are an ECR keen about science communication get in touch with us at [email protected]

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Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (AMOS) @amosupdates.bsky.social · Jul 14

🎖🎖AMOS Awards 2025

AMOS members can nominate someone until Sept 1, 2025, for:
🏅The Priestley Medal
🏅The Zillman Medal
🏆The Christopher Taylor Award
📷The Science Outreach Award

Nominations should be forwarded to [email protected]

More information: www.amos.org.au/activities/a...

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Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (AMOS) @amosupdates.bsky.social · Jun 30

After a week of talks, networking opportunities during the pre-conference meet-up, ECR event, AMOS dinner, and experiencing the Great Barrier Reef as well as Madja (forest) at the JCU Diantree rainforest observatory, we hope all got home safe. See you all in February 2026 in Hobart

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Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (AMOS) @amosupdates.bsky.social · Jun 30

This weekend, some of our AMOS members went to the James Cook University Daintree Rainforest observatory. This place has the facilities for any research related to the rainforest productivity as well as their animals.

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Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (AMOS) @amosupdates.bsky.social · Jun 27

Today, some of our AMOS members got the chance to visit the Great Barrier Reef sponsored by Reef Unlimited and GBR Biology

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Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (AMOS) @amosupdates.bsky.social · Jun 26

#AMOS2025 ended today. Enriching discussions took place in Cairns about diverse topics of Australias weather, climate, and ocean dynamics. Tomorrow some of our members will experience the Great Barrier Reef wonders while others reflect on all we learned in the past 4 days

Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (AMOS) @amosupdates.bsky.social · Jun 26

Cape Grim atmospheric composition observation station has been taking measurements (aerosols, radon, CO2, O3, CH3CCl3) for the past 49 years. Contributing to international assessments of atmospheric composition

Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (AMOS) @amosupdates.bsky.social · Jun 26

UN reported 1.1 million deaths due to lead in petrol in 2011

Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (AMOS) @amosupdates.bsky.social · Jun 26

Atmospheric composition can affect human health (through air pollution).

Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (AMOS) @amosupdates.bsky.social · Jun 26

Aerosols are masking the warming effect that greenhouse gases make in the atmosphere

Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (AMOS) @amosupdates.bsky.social · Jun 26

Our last plenary of the day, and the conference, is given by A. Prof. Robyn Schofield about atmospheric composition

Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (AMOS) @amosupdates.bsky.social · Jun 25

Challenge: How to do event attribution analysis if there is a large spread of precipitation analysis between products?

Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (AMOS) @amosupdates.bsky.social · Jun 25

Challenge: Reanalyses and satellite precipitation estimates have a large variability of their global estimates (both land and ocean). In-situ data (especially with more than 50 years of records) are limited to land areas, mostly in the USA and Australia

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Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (AMOS) @amosupdates.bsky.social · Jun 25

What we know: 1. Global means precipitation increases with global warming. 2. Extreme precipitation follows Clausius-Clapeyron. 3. Southern Hemisphere storm track has shifted polewards. 4. Global models are getting better

Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (AMOS) @amosupdates.bsky.social · Jun 25

Next, Prof Lisa Alexander talks about what we know (and don't know) about large-scale precipitation.

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Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (AMOS) @amosupdates.bsky.social · Jun 25

Higher resolution models can also better represent wave breaking, an important process to forecast heatwaves and flooding events

Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (AMOS) @amosupdates.bsky.social · Jun 25

Convective processes important to represent mesoscale convective systems are aerosols, shallow clouds, and boundary layer processes. Depending on the region, one of them would be the primary driver of convection

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Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (AMOS) @amosupdates.bsky.social · Jun 25

Representing orgraphic flows can help into better representing precipitation and snow accumulation

Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (AMOS) @amosupdates.bsky.social · Jun 25

Topography is better resolved in higher resolution models and, therefore, land processes as well as convection.

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Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (AMOS) @amosupdates.bsky.social · Jun 25

Andreas Prein from ETH talking on the large-scale effect of small processes

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Jason P. Evans @jasonpevans.bsky.social · Jun 25

Just finished the Regional Climate session at AMOS. It's great to see all the work going on in this space. Thanks to Marcus Thatcher, my co-organiser, shown giving his talk below.

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