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...
October 12, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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...
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?
September 11, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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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✨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
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
September 6, 2025 at 5:00 PM
✨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
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
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I'll admit, I was skeptical when they said Gemini was just like a bunch of PhDs. But I gotta admit they nailed it.
August 17, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I'll admit, I was skeptical when they said Gemini was just like a bunch of PhDs. But I gotta admit they nailed it.
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.
August 15, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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.
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".
August 4, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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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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
tinyurl.com
July 29, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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
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 :-)
@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 :-)
July 23, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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 :-)
@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 :-)
Is this a better or worse name than my old one?
July 19, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Is this a better or worse name than my old one?
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.
July 15, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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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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...
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...
July 7, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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...
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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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.
There are no easy choices, but we could lose our ability to monitor this region for an extended period.
July 7, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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.
There are no easy choices, but we could lose our ability to monitor this region for an extended period.
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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...
If TIMED & Aura do get shut down then this would abruptly end climate monitoring of these altitudes.
arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...
July 7, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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...
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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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...
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...
July 7, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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...
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...
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.
July 2, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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.
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.
June 16, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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.
This is also what my students say :-(
May 18, 2025 at 2:57 AM
This is also what my students say :-(
Thanks Acrobat, without you I don't know if I could manage to read *eight whole pages at double-line spacing.*
May 8, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Thanks Acrobat, without you I don't know if I could manage to read *eight whole pages at double-line spacing.*
I got the train from Didcot to Vienna and back, and all 14 legs were on time. Wow.
May 3, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I got the train from Didcot to Vienna and back, and all 14 legs were on time. Wow.
Got an email suggesting October 2026 for my inaugural lectures. I appreciate the organisation to let me know, but even *I* don't plan my calendar out in detail that far in advance...
May 3, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Got an email suggesting October 2026 for my inaugural lectures. I appreciate the organisation to let me know, but even *I* don't plan my calendar out in detail that far in advance...
I GOT TO PUT 15 BOTTLES IN THE PFANDMASCHINE! I think the lady who came up to use the machine while I was halfway through thought I was mad because I was so excited, until I explained I was English and we don't have them.
May 1, 2025 at 5:07 AM
I GOT TO PUT 15 BOTTLES IN THE PFANDMASCHINE! I think the lady who came up to use the machine while I was halfway through thought I was mad because I was so excited, until I explained I was English and we don't have them.
I have eduroam in here, and the signal is stronger than in my concrete box in Bath. So: new office? Could put the desk between the end pillars, just need somewhere to hide the cables.
April 25, 2025 at 7:26 AM
I have eduroam in here, and the signal is stronger than in my concrete box in Bath. So: new office? Could put the desk between the end pillars, just need somewhere to hide the cables.
On the plus side I've, somewhat unnervingly, got all the way from Didcot to Wuerzburg without a single train delay and exactly on time despite it requiring five changes of train. The slight downside being one of my bags got stolen on the middle train. Bah.
April 24, 2025 at 5:02 PM
On the plus side I've, somewhat unnervingly, got all the way from Didcot to Wuerzburg without a single train delay and exactly on time despite it requiring five changes of train. The slight downside being one of my bags got stolen on the middle train. Bah.
Reposted by Corwin Wright
Loss of the aging ACE-FTS and MLS satellite instruments will create a “data desert” around stratospheric composition, suggests a paper by @rosssalawitch.bsky.social et al in #BulletinAMS. Observation gaps may hinder understanding of climate change.
Read more: bit.ly/41JORtl
Read more: bit.ly/41JORtl
April 4, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Loss of the aging ACE-FTS and MLS satellite instruments will create a “data desert” around stratospheric composition, suggests a paper by @rosssalawitch.bsky.social et al in #BulletinAMS. Observation gaps may hinder understanding of climate change.
Read more: bit.ly/41JORtl
Read more: bit.ly/41JORtl
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Professor Corwin Wright shares his work in the Channel 5 documentary '#Volcano'.
Episode 2 highlights Wright’s research on the 2022 Hunga Tonga volcanic eruption, which was one of the most explosive volcanic events of the modern era.
www.channel5.com/show/volcano...
Episode 2 highlights Wright’s research on the 2022 Hunga Tonga volcanic eruption, which was one of the most explosive volcanic events of the modern era.
www.channel5.com/show/volcano...
April 15, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Professor Corwin Wright shares his work in the Channel 5 documentary '#Volcano'.
Episode 2 highlights Wright’s research on the 2022 Hunga Tonga volcanic eruption, which was one of the most explosive volcanic events of the modern era.
www.channel5.com/show/volcano...
Episode 2 highlights Wright’s research on the 2022 Hunga Tonga volcanic eruption, which was one of the most explosive volcanic events of the modern era.
www.channel5.com/show/volcano...