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ASPECT project @aspect-project.bsky.social · 9d

📢 Catch ASPECT researchers at Climateurope2 festival in Belgrade tomorrow!

Tomorrow at 16:15-17:45 CEST, ASPECT researchers are running a World Café session exploring the potential for upscaling a co-produced climate information prototype 🍷

👉 buff.ly/9wviKCN

ASPECT project @aspect-project.bsky.social · 12d

We are excited to take part in the next Climateurope2 festival in Belgrade next week!

On 30th September, ASPECT researchers will lead a World Café session exploring the potential for upscaling a climate information prototype.

✍️ Registration & info: buff.ly/XS9L6y7

ASPECT project @aspect-project.bsky.social · 14d

⭐ASPECT researchers participated in the 2025 European Meteorological Society meeting earlier this month in Ljubljana

Researchers presented a session on climate risk concerns among European organisations and a poster on temporal merging research in collaboration BOREAS

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#EMS2025

ASPECT project @aspect-project.bsky.social · 20d

📢 ASPECT at the next @climateurope2.bsky.social festival!

Join us on 30 September at the World Cafe session, where we will discuss together with participants the scaling up of co-produced climate information and how to meet the needs of users.

✍️ Registration & festival info: buff.ly/u2djJt2

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ASPECT project @aspect-project.bsky.social · Sep 4

💡 ASPECT partners recently met in Oxford for a hybrid workshop which took a deep dive into the various temporal-combining methods in development and explored their potential for user applications..

📖 Read more: buff.ly/zWLDkSr

#ClimateScience #ClimateServices #TemporalCombining

ASPECT Partners Meet for Temporal Merging Workshop in Oxford - Aspect

On June 30 and July 1, ASPECT partners working on Temporal Combining of Prediction and Projection met in Oxford.

www.aspect-project.eu

ASPECT project @aspect-project.bsky.social · Sep 3

🌊A new paper part-funded by ASPECT reveals how persistent model biases in seasonal forecasting systems have affected ENSO predictions—including the recent triple-dip La Niña. The authors highlight key ways to improve these important predictions.

👉 Read here: buff.ly/6xPi6Sh
#Climate #ElNiño

ASPECT project @aspect-project.bsky.social · Aug 26

💼Are you in the pension sector? We want to hear from you!
🌍Climate change is reshaping financial risk—but many funds aren’t ready.

Take our survey to help improve tools that support climate-smart investing 👉 buff.ly/b4E0zBt

Info: buff.ly/luiYy7w
Deadline 15th Sept 2025

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ASPECT project @aspect-project.bsky.social · Aug 12

A new paper by colleagues at @bsc-cns.bsky.social, partially funded by ASPECT, investigates the signal-to-noise paradox in climate models using a perfect-model experiment.

The findings offer new insights into this puzzling issue...

👉 Read: buff.ly/vDARvwt

ASPECT project @aspect-project.bsky.social · Jul 31

Does your research climate variations on annual to multi-decadal timescales (1-30 years)?

Share your work and insights at our Workshop!

📅 18-20 Nov 2025
📍 Bologna, Italy (hybrid)

⚠️ Abstract submission closes TODAY! Don't miss out!

Info: buff.ly/4r3rO4T

ASPECT project @aspect-project.bsky.social · Jul 29

Marta Terrado, ASPECT coordinator, presented the project and co-development with users in a recent meeting of MEDUSSE in Barcelona. This COST Action is establishing a network of experts on climate variability & prediction to improve S2D forecasting in the Mediterranean (www.cost.eu/actions/CA23...)

ASPECT project @aspect-project.bsky.social · Jul 24

💼 Are you in the pension sector?
🌍 Climate change is reshaping financial risk—but many funds aren’t ready.

Take our survey to help improve tools that support climate-smart investing 👉 buff.ly/b4E0zBt

More information: buff.ly/luiYy7w

Deadline 15th September

ASPECT project @aspect-project.bsky.social · Jul 23

🌡️ New Met Office research shows the UK is now 20x more likely to hit 40°C than in the 1960s. With extreme heat rising, adaptation is essential.

👉Read how ASPECT are helping the British Red Cross use climate science for preparedness: buff.ly/FvGc4Kg

#ClimateChange #Heatwaves #Adaptation

New research reveals rising risk of record UK temperatures - Aspect

Met Office scientists found that the chance of UK temperatures exceeding 40°C is now over 20 times more likely than it was in the 1960s

www.aspect-project.eu

ASPECT project @aspect-project.bsky.social · Jul 18

🤝 ASPECT x Impetus4Change = strength in collaboration!

From joint workshops to a co-hosted #ECCA2025 session, our collaboration with @impetus4change.bsky.social is helping shape better climate services for adaptation.

🌍 Read more: www.aspect-project.eu/collaboratio...

#ClimateServices #EUProjects

Strengthening climate research through collaboration: ASPECT & Impetus4Change - Aspect

ASPECT collaborates with sister project Impetus4Change to co-host internal workshops and a session at the adaptation conference ECCA 2025.

www.aspect-project.eu

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ASPECT project @aspect-project.bsky.social · Jul 17

📣 DEADLINE EXTENDED for ABSTRACT SUBMISSION for the Workshop on Understanding and Predicting Annual to Multi-Decadal Climate Variations (UPCLIV)!

👉 Submit your abstract by the 31st July: www.upcliv-workshop.net

#ClimatePrediction #WCRP #HorizonEU #HorizonEurope

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EXPECT Project @expect-project.bsky.social · Jul 14

Only 2 days left to submit your abstract! 📣

✍️ Be part of this interdisciplinary open workshop in Bologna & online in November

Submit your abstract by 15 July👉 bit.ly/3Iq37Ae

#MachineLearning #Climate #ClimateScience

@aspect-project.bsky.social @impetus4change.bsky.social @wcrpclimate.bsky.social

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ASPECT project @aspect-project.bsky.social · Jul 15

🌍 Last month, ASPECT scientists helped lead a hackathon tackling tropical cyclone risk in the reinsurance sector.

This was a great opportunity to build crucial links across research and industry.

🔗 Read more: buff.ly/p1fr3wg

#ClimateRisk #Reinsurance #Hackathon

ASPECT supports climate-informed decision-making at recent hackathon - Aspect

Held on 10–11 June, the hackathon was led by the UK Centre for Greening Financial Investment and hosted by ASPECT partners, the University of Leeds.

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ASPECT project @aspect-project.bsky.social · Jun 26

💼 Are you in the pension sector?
🌍 Climate change is reshaping financial risk—but many funds aren’t ready.

Take our survey to help improve tools that support climate-smart investing 👉 buff.ly/b4E0zBt

More information: buff.ly/luiYy7w

ASPECT project @aspect-project.bsky.social · Jun 25

☀️🌡️ ASPECT scientist Dr Lara Wallberg is lead author of a new paper which shows how tracking heat buildup in the North Atlantic could improve forecasts of extreme European summer temperatures several years in advance.

👉 Read the full paper briefing: buff.ly/zzkKDxU

Anomalously Warm European Summers Predicted More Accurately by Considering Sub-Decadal North Atlantic Ocean Heat Accumulation - Aspect

New research reveals how tracking heat buildup in the North Atlantic could improve forecasts of extreme European summer temperatures several years in advance.

www.aspect-project.eu

ASPECT project @aspect-project.bsky.social · Jun 24

📣 You have 3 weeks to respond to this CALL FOR ABSTRACTS for the Workshop on Understanding and Predicting Annual to Multi-Decadal Climate Variations (UPCLIV)!

👉 Submit your abstract before 15th July: www.upcliv-workshop.net

#ClimatePrediction #WCRP #HorizonEU #HorizonEurope

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Impetus4Change @impetus4change.bsky.social · Jun 18

🍇 Marta Terrado shows how climate services support wine sector adaptation with seamless #predictions.

Main takeaway: knowledge brokers - from UX experts to scientists - are key to making services usable, scalable & effective.

#ECCA2025 #I4C #MakeitReal

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ASPECT project @aspect-project.bsky.social · Jun 20

In honour of #ShowYourStripes Day 2025, which falls tomorrow, read our interview with the scientist who created the climate stripes. Professor Ed Hawkins spoke to ASPECT's Grahame Madge about the state of climate change in Europe...

👉 Read article here: buff.ly/PJYRCTB

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ASPECT project @aspect-project.bsky.social · Jun 18

📸"Snapshots of the future" - Recent ASPECT interview feature

Our project coordinator Marta Terrado spoke to Alter!, the blog powered by the MAIA Resilience EU project, about ASPECT's mission to develop seamless climate predictions for adaptation.

👉READ HERE:

Snapshots of the future

The researchers working to deliver more accurate climate predictions

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ASPECT project @aspect-project.bsky.social · Jun 16

Our sister project Impetus4Change are presenting their exciting #MakeItReal Roadshow at #ECCA2025 this week!

Make sure to visit the Impetus Pit Stop (BOOTH #20) for some engaging conversation with #I4C researchers.

Follow the journey and learn more: buff.ly/VHAN4eO

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ASPECT project @aspect-project.bsky.social · Jun 16

📣 ASPECT researchers will be at #ECCA2025 this week!

Marta Terrado, one of the ASPECT project coordinators, is co-chairing the session on Upscaling Climate Services that is organised by #MIP4Adapt.

📅 17 June, 16:30 CEST
📍 Rimini + online
🔗 More information: buff.ly/k4ZYZC1

#ClimateAdaptation

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ASPECT project @aspect-project.bsky.social · Jun 13

👀Curious about what ASPECT has achieved so far?

One focus is delivering new, actionable climate data to support climate adaptation, using spatial downscaling and temporal merging - concepts which you can read about on page 9 of our mid-project report

👉https://buff.ly/ANQTGQ2