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Jason P. Evans @jasonpevans.bsky.social · 12d

I'm happy to represent GEWEX and CORDEX at the Pan-CLIVAR meeting. Lots of great ocean related research happening in this community!

UNSW Climate Change Research Centre @ccrc.bsky.social · 12d

🌏 This week, @jasonpevans.bsky.social and Andrea from CCRC are attending the Pan-CLIVAR meeting in Bali 🇮🇩

Jason is representing two major international climate research programs: GEWEX and CORDEX, and Andrea is a co-chair of the CLIVAR Pacific Regional Panel and a member of the Tropical ++

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Jason P. Evans @jasonpevans.bsky.social · 16d

We just published a paper that shows including lateral flow of soil moisture matters for climate once you get down to km-scale modelling of the land surface. More and more of our work is at these scales so we need to start including processes like this. 🧪
hess.copernicus.org/articles/29/...

The influence of lateral flow on land surface fluxes in southeast Australia varies with model resolution

Abstract. Land surface models (LSMs) used in climate models typically represent surface hydrology as one-dimensional vertical fluxes, neglecting the lateral movement of water within and between grids....

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World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) @wcrpclimate.bsky.social · Aug 21

Hasn’t the climate always changed?

More info about WCRP on our website

#WCRP #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #ScienceExplained #ClimateAction #SustainableFuture

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ARC 21st Century Weather @21stcenturyweather.bsky.social · Aug 22

We are hosting a Masterclass for our partners and stakeholders from government and industry! Deepening your knowledge and understanding of weather and climate science! 🎓

📌 UNSW Law Theatre, Sydney
⏱️ Tue 2 Sep: 9:30am-5pm
💵 Free to attend
Register here: lnkd.in/gCUMhpuv
Agenda here: lnkd.in/gHdZHMj8

This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

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GEWEX @gewex.bsky.social · Aug 19

Did you catch the latest issue of the GEWEX Quarterly? It's up on our website at www.gewex.org/gewex-conten..., and this edition talks about Arctic mixed-phase clouds in models, the ORCESTRA field campaign, the InPRHA initiative to improve multi-hazard flood forecasting systems, and more!

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Jason P. Evans @jasonpevans.bsky.social · Aug 11

Congrats to Shankar Sharma on his first PhD paper dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
He develops a method to track changes in urban land over time. Sydney Australia shows a clear increase in the denser, higher urban zones. 🧪
@neginnazarian.bsky.social @mlip.bsky.social

Mapping urban dynamics in Greater Sydney – A scalable multi-decadal local climate zone classification approach

Urbanization has significantly altered land surface properties, leading to changes in local micro-climates and impacts on regional climate. To understand these changes, long-term, precise urban land u...

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Tim Raupach @timraupach.com · Aug 8

Next up, David Bee Olmedo from @nsw-bnhrc.bsky.social and @ccrc.bsky.social discusses scaling of extreme rainfall with temperature calculated using radar data.

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Tim Raupach @timraupach.com · Aug 8

Greeshma Surendran from @ccrc.bsky.social uses pseudo-global warming models to look at changes in extreme wind gusts.

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Nature @nature.com · Aug 8

“This little report is basically designed to suppress science, not to enhance it or encourage it”

Researchers say that the report misrepresents decades of climate science
go.nature.com/3J4TOWD

Outrage over Trump team’s climate report spurs researchers to fight back

Report authors welcome ‘serious’ scientific rebuttals to report that some say misrepresents decades of climate science.

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PLOS Climate @plosclimate.org · Aug 8

Reminder! The editors of PLOS Climate's Health section are calling for submissions on the theme of Heat and Health.

Learn more here 👇

latitude.plos.org/2025/03/plos...

PLOS Climate: call for submissions on heat and health - Latitude

The editors of PLOS Climate’s Health section are calling for submissions on the theme of heat and health. As the impacts of…

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PLOS Climate @plosclimate.org · Aug 8

From the editors of PLOS Climate's Energy section: a call for submissions of policy-relevant energy research 👇

latitude.plos.org/2025/03/plos...

PLOS Climate: call for submissions of policy-relevant energy research - Latitude

The Energy section of PLOS Climate covers a wide range of topics ranging including the climate resilience of energy systems, the Energy-Health-Climate…

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Jason P. Evans @jasonpevans.bsky.social · Jul 30

Congrats to Greeshma Surendran who's first PhD paper was just published www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The work shows that atmospheric environmental factors linked to extreme wind gusts are different to those that link to strong wind gusts. 🧪

Distinguishing environmental controls on strong vs. extreme wind gusts

Statistical and theoretical models of wind gusts may be dominated by more common strong events, rather than rare but damaging extreme ones. We address…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Jason P. Evans @jasonpevans.bsky.social · Jul 29

It's great to be listening to Prof. Koji Dairaku in the regional climate modelling session at the Asia-Oceania Geosciences Society Conference. There is lots of interesting work in this space happening!

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ARC 21st Century Weather @21stcenturyweather.bsky.social · Jun 26

Earth is losing clouds — fast.
Storm zones have shrunk by up to 3% per decade.
That’s helping drive record-breaking heat.

New NASA-led research featuring @Weather21C shows how less cloud = more warming.

Read more: 21centuryweather.org.au/new-study-sh...

#ClimateScience #GlobalWarming #CloudCover

New study shows cloud loss contributing to record-breaking temperatures

NASA-led study shows Earth’s cloud cover is shrinking, amplifying warming. Fewer clouds mean more heat absorbed and record temperatures worldwide.

21centuryweather.org.au

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

I'll be using precipitation observations with a lot more caution after Lisa's interesting talk.

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

A really interesting talk from Andy. Lots of benefits come from Climate modelling at Km scales but there is more work to do to realise all the benefits.

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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Jason P. Evans @jasonpevans.bsky.social · Jun 24

Congrats Moninya. Well deserved!

Prof Helen Bostock @oceanhelen.bsky.social · Jun 23

Congratulations to the new #AMOS2025 fellows including oceanographer prof Moninya Roughan at UNSW. An expert in the East Australian Current - using observations and models. 🌊

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Jason P. Evans @jasonpevans.bsky.social · Jun 24

Congratulations to Helen. You have been an inspiration to many Climate scientists in Australia

Prof Helen Bostock @oceanhelen.bsky.social · Jun 23

#AMOS2025 Morton Medal to Helen Cleugh

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Jason P. Evans @jasonpevans.bsky.social · Jun 11

I had the pleasure of doing a Q&A session at a @cricketforclimate event. The event was talking with South Asian cricket communities about the impacts of climate change on cricket and what climate solutions can look like for clubs - because we all want to play cricket forever!

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Jason P. Evans @jasonpevans.bsky.social · Apr 29

I had the pleasure to be part of a panel discussion on "Innovative Approaches to Observations and Modelling for Improved Climate Information and Services" at EGU. Shout out to my fellow panelists representing the @wcrpclimate.bsky.social programs ESMO, RIfs and CORDEX

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Jason P. Evans @jasonpevans.bsky.social · Apr 29

Just gave my invited talk at EGU. A few years of work looking into the benefits of bias correcting the boundary conditions for regional climate model simulations. Much credit to Youngil Kim. It's been great sharing our work with everyone @ccrc.bsky.social @unswbees.bsky.social

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Jason P. Evans @jasonpevans.bsky.social · Apr 26

Thanks to the CLEX Drought research program team and all our collaborators on this work. @ccrc.bsky.social

Jason P. Evans @jasonpevans.bsky.social · Apr 26

Are you interested in the many and varied processes that contribute to drought? Check out the special collection in Weather and Climate Extremes on Australia's Tinderbox drought introduced by this editorial comment. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Editorial: Australia's Tinderbox Drought

www.sciencedirect.com

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ARC 21st Century Weather @21stcenturyweather.bsky.social · Apr 3

Job opportunity: Lecturer or Senior Lecturer based at Monash University.

Do you have expertise in one or more areas, including atmospheric dynamics, physical meteorology, atmospheric modelling, and similar disciplines?

Apply now.
Closes on Friday 2 May.

- 21centuryweather.org.au/about-us/pos...

Job opportunities in climate science & weather change

21st Century Weather is recruiting postdoctoral researchers in climate modelling and weather change research.

21centuryweather.org.au

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