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Elizabeth A. Barnes

@eabarnes.bsky.social

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Professor | Climate Scientist | AI for Science incoming Dalton Professor of Computing & Data Sciences and of Earth & Environment @ Boston University

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Elizabeth A. Barnes @eabarnes.bsky.social · Feb 21

We have three new papers out leveraging #AI climate emulators to estimate the radiative response to sea surface temperatures. Bottom line: Yes! We are learning new science with these tools.
arxiv.org/abs/2502.10893 doi.org/10.1029/2024... eartharxiv.org/repository/v...

Reanalysis-based Global Radiative Response to Sea Surface Temperature Patterns: Evaluating the Ai2 Climate Emulator

The sensitivity of the radiative flux at the top of the atmosphere to surface temperature perturbations cannot be directly observed. The relationship between sea surface temperature and top-of-atmosph...

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Elizabeth A. Barnes @eabarnes.bsky.social · Jan 17

Incredibly honored to have been awarded the #PECASE.

cira-csu.bsky.social @cira-csu.bsky.social · Jan 17

On this #AMS2025 week, President Joe Biden awarded Colorado State University Professor Elizabeth Barnes with the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

Congratulations @eabarnes.bsky.social 🎉

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CSU professor receives Presidential honor

President Joe Biden this week awarded Colorado State University Professor Elizabeth Barnes with the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers – the U.S. government’s highest honor f...

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Elizabeth A. Barnes @eabarnes.bsky.social · Jan 16

Thank you! It is an incredible honor and also speaks to the amazing folks I get to work with every day! ❤️

Kirsten J. Mayer @kirstenjmayer.bsky.social · Jan 16

Congrats @eabarnes.bsky.social 🎉🎉

AGU (American Geophysical Union) @agu.org · Jan 16

🎉 Congratulations to nearly 400 scientists and engineers honored with the PECASE by President Biden !

We’re especially proud to see AGU members among this incredible group of early-career trailblazers. 🌍✨ 🚀

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Elizabeth A. Barnes @eabarnes.bsky.social · Dec 10

Paper 2 of 2: Probabilistic #ML to predict peak warming under decarbonization: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Data‐Driven Predictions of Peak Warming Under Rapid Decarbonization

We train CNNs to predict peak global warming given the map of recent annual temperatures and total additional CO2 emissions Even if net-zero emissions are reached mid-century, mean warming is vir...

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Elizabeth A. Barnes @eabarnes.bsky.social · Dec 10

Paper 1 of 2: ML + transfer learning to constrain regional temperatures: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Combining climate models and observations to predict the time remaining until regional warming thresholds are reached - IOPscienceSearch

Combining climate models and observations to predict the time remaining until regional warming thresholds are reached, Elizabeth A Barnes, Noah S Diffenbaugh, Sonia I Seneviratne

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Elizabeth A. Barnes @eabarnes.bsky.social · Dec 10

Our 2 new papers out today with colleagues Noah Diffenbaugh & @soniaseneviratne.bsky.social ! Our results highlight the power of #ML & transfer learning to combine #climate model projections with reanalyses to constrain future temperatures based on the current climate.

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Elizabeth A. Barnes @eabarnes.bsky.social · Dec 10

*Transfer learning to constrain regional temperatures: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
*Probabilistic #ML to predict peak warming under decarbonization: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

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Pedram Hassanzadeh @pedramh.bsky.social · Nov 22

Research scientist position on AI weather forecasting at UChicago's AI for Climate (AICE) initiative to work with me, Amir Jina, and Michael Kremer. Will work across our new Human-Centered Weather Forecasting Initiative + @dsi-uchicago.bsky.social + Climate Institute

Data Science Institute @dsi-uchicago.bsky.social · Nov 22

Job Opportunity Alert:

Research Scientist: apply.interfolio.com/159359

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Stephan Hoyer @stephanhoyer.com · Nov 21

The new ACE2 climate emulator from Oliver Watt-Meyer et al has very compelling results, with results that look comparable to NeuralGCM. Congrats to the AI2 team!
arxiv.org/abs/2411.112...

ACE2: Accurately learning subseasonal to decadal atmospheric variability and forced responses

Existing machine learning models of weather variability are not formulated to enable assessment of their response to varying external boundary conditions such as sea surface temperature and greenhouse...

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