Must be a black hole nearby ;-)

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.

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

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.

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...

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.

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.

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...

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.