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ESM2025 @esm2025.bsky.social · 1d

Back from lunch at #ESM2025inToulouse!
"The REF is a complete end to end system providing a systematic & rapid performance assess. of the expected models participating in the CMIP Assess. Fast Track, supporting the next IPCC AR7 cycle."
Ranjini Swaminathan @uniofreading.bsky.social @wcrp-cmip.org

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UK Earth System Model @ukesm.bsky.social · 1d

The UKESM team is participating in #ESM2025inToulouse and looks forward to the gathering, sharing and discussion.🌐

ESM2025 @esm2025.bsky.social · 1d

👋Bonjour from Météo-France Campus, Toulouse!
We're starting our Final GA! Great to reunite with colleagues from across Europe to share what we've achieved during the 4.5 years of ESM2025. 🌐
Welcome by @smlmrn.bsky.social. Thanks to #CNRM @meteofrance.com @cnrs.fr

#ESM2025inToulouse kicks off! 🥳

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Future Impacts, Risks and Mitigation Actions in a changing Earth @terrafirmaclimate.bsky.social · 7d

A rewarding day out helping to maintain hedge guards with @ncas-uk.bsky.social at #GairWood @universityofleeds.bsky.social 🌱🌳 #Conservation #Volunteering

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UK Earth System Model @ukesm.bsky.social · Sep 8

YESS, the Young Earth System Scientists community, is an interdisciplinary, international, bottom-up early career researchers (ECR) network in Earth system science, collaborating & exchanging on a range of themes through webinars, workshops, learning groups, etc. Find out more www.yess-community.org

Young Earth System Scientists – community

www.yess-community.org

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National Centre for Atmospheric Science @ncas-uk.bsky.social · Sep 4

It’s our research aircraft’s birthday this week!

It’s the oldest airliner still flying in the UK - albeit studying the atmosphere rather than carrying passengers ✈️

Since 2004, it's helped scientists to learn more about the Earth’s atmosphere, weather, climate change, and air pollution.

A large blue and white aircraft with the letters FAAM on its tail glides through a cloudy sky, with green patches of land far below. Text says: 'Happy birthday, G-LUXE!'.

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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · Aug 26

Provisional statistics from the Met Office show that summer 2025 will ‘almost certainly’ be the warmest summer on record for the UK.

It would move 2018 off the top spot and relegate 1976 out of the top five warmest summer in a series which dates back to 1884.
👉 www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...

Photograph of bright sun in a clear blue sky with clouds at the bottom. Text reads: 'Met Office NEWS RELEASE 26 August 2025 – This summer will ‘almost certainly’ be warmest on record for the UK.'

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Climate Outreach @climateoutreach.bsky.social · Aug 22

COMING SOON: Britain Talks Climate & Nature! We're launching brand new, in depth insights on what Brits think and feel about climate and nature in 2025, alongside a communications toolkit to help you put them into practice.

Sign up for the launch webinar now: climateoutreach.org/btc2025_laun...

Join us for the launch of our new Britain Talks Climate & Nature research. - Climate Outreach

climateoutreach.org

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National Centre for Atmospheric Science @ncas-uk.bsky.social · Aug 12

The hot temperatures in the UK this summer provide a glimpse of our future.

We asked climate, weather, and air pollution scientists at @ncas-uk.bsky.social about heatwaves, the link to climate change, and what this means for the UK’s air quality.

ncas.ac.uk/what-are-hea...

What are heatwaves and how are they linked to climate change and air pollution? - NCAS

We asked climate, weather, and air pollution scientists about heatwaves, the link to climate change, and what this means for the UK’s air quality.

ncas.ac.uk

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Future Impacts, Risks and Mitigation Actions in a changing Earth @terrafirmaclimate.bsky.social · Aug 13

Check out new research papers from TerraFIRMA and UKESM at terrafirma.ac.uk/resources/ 🌐 @terrafirmaclimate.bsky.social @ukesm.bsky.social

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Future Impacts, Risks and Mitigation Actions in a changing Earth @terrafirmaclimate.bsky.social · Jul 16

Read the following related papers for details📖
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Dry corridors opened by fire and low CO2 in Amazonian rainforest during the Last Glacial Maximum - Nature Geoscience

Lower CO2 and more-frequent fires may have supported grassland expansion in the Amazon during the Last Glacial Maximum, according to vegetation modelling using a range of boundary conditions tested ag...

www.nature.com

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Future Impacts, Risks and Mitigation Actions in a changing Earth @terrafirmaclimate.bsky.social · Jul 16

New modelling highlights how the Amazon's rich biodiversity evolved & the growing threat posed by human activities🌳Study uses new method to integrate archaeological & geoscientific data into climate models, reconstructing past human-environment interactions—featured in a German Archaeology magazine.

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Future Impacts, Risks and Mitigation Actions in a changing Earth @terrafirmaclimate.bsky.social · Jul 15

TerraFIRMA funding contributes to a new study by Laura Wilcox on how cleaning up air pollution reveals more climate warming.

National Centre for Atmospheric Science @ncas-uk.bsky.social · Jul 14

Clean air, warmer planet? New study co-authored by NCAS's Laura Wilcox shows East Asia’s air pollution clean-up may have lifted a “cooling mask,” revealing more GHG warming.

A reminder that we must cut emissions and pollution - for climate and health.

ncas.ac.uk/east-asia-wh...

East Asia: What is the link between air pollution and global warming? - NCAS

Recent efforts to reduce air pollution in East Asia may have inadvertently contributed to a noticeable acceleration in global warming since 2010

ncas.ac.uk

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Future Impacts, Risks and Mitigation Actions in a changing Earth @terrafirmaclimate.bsky.social · Jun 27

The Guardian is doing a series on the latest science on tipping points, including the Amazon, Antarctic, coral reefs and more
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Tipping points: on the edge? | The Guardian

<p>Tipping points - in the Amazon, Antarctic, coral reefs and more - could cause fundamental parts of the Earth system to change dramatically, irreversibly and with devastating effects. Here, we ask t...

www.theguardian.com

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UK Earth System Model @ukesm.bsky.social · Jun 20

🌍21st June is #ShowYourStripes day. The bar chart shows the temperature change in the UK up to 2024 compared to the average of 1961-2010 showyourstripes.info
2024 was the warmest year on record. 📣Take action! www.un.org/en/actnow/te...

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Future Impacts, Risks and Mitigation Actions in a changing Earth @terrafirmaclimate.bsky.social · May 22

The marine heatwave in the seas around the UK and Ireland has soared this week, with some areas now 4°C warmer than normal, impacting marine life, fisheries & swimming activities🌊 Scientists predict 2025 will be one of the hottest years🌡️ @noc.ac.uk @metoffice.bsky.social
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Marine heatwave: UK sea temperatures soar after exceptionally warm Spring

Sea temperatures in some areas off the UK and Ireland are 4C above average.

www.bbc.com

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Paul Griffiths @paultgriffiths.github.io · May 15

Getting #UKESM evaluation going at the @terrafirmaclimate.bsky.social General Assembly in Exeter hosted by the @metoffice.bsky.social. Composition avengers assemble!

UKESM scientists sitting in the sun to discuss how to evaluate the CMIP7 and, more importantly, which one of them will do it

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Future Impacts, Risks and Mitigation Actions in a changing Earth @terrafirmaclimate.bsky.social · May 22

"UKESM1 simulates all these steps, with advanced representation of atmospheric chemistry, physical climate processes, and the global carbon cycle... The important findings in this study would not have been possible without use of such an advanced Earth system model..." – Prof. Colin Jones

National Centre for Atmospheric Science @ncas-uk.bsky.social · May 21

Healing the ozone hole could help the Southern Ocean absorb more carbon - but only if we cut greenhouse gas emissions.

Learn more about how the UKESM1 model made this research by @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social & @ncas-uk.bsky.social possible:

ncas.ac.uk/healing-the-...

Healing the ozone hole could help the Southern Ocean take up carbon - NCAS

As the ozone hole heals, its influence on the ocean carbon sink of the Southern Ocean will diminish, while the influence of greenhouse gas emissions will rise.

ncas.ac.uk

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Future Impacts, Risks and Mitigation Actions in a changing Earth @terrafirmaclimate.bsky.social · May 2

In an era of AI, why does explainable machine learning still matter for #wildfire prediction? ECMWF scientist Joe McNorton takes us inside the Probability of Fire (PoF) system to uncover the drivers of fire activity🔥 terrafirma.ac.uk/integrating-... @ukesm.bsky.social

Integrating Land Surface Modelling and Machine Learning for Wildfire Prediction

The Probability of Fire (PoF) model plays a vital role in wildfire attribution.

terrafirma.ac.uk

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National Centre for Atmospheric Science @ncas-uk.bsky.social · Apr 28

We're hiring!

Join our team in Reading as a post-doctoral scientist.

Work on the PROMOTE project to develop innovative methods to represent and evaluate climate tipping points in a leading Earth system model.

Apply by 20 May 📆

ncas.ac.uk/job-opportun...

Job Opportunity: Research Scientist - NCAS

We are looking for a Research Scientist to join our team at the University of Reading.

ncas.ac.uk

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European Geosciences Union (EGU) @egu.eu · Apr 28

Curious about today's sessions? Check out #EGUToday. We will share daily highlights during the conference week— stay tuned!

👉 Subscribe: www.egu.eu/0L3NOJ/

🔗 MONDAY 28 APRIL: www.egu.eu/egutoday/202...

Image description: The Grand Canyon with text reading "EGU25 TODAY, Monday 28 April. Stay updated."

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Prof. Andy Turner @agturnermonsoon.bsky.social · Apr 26

Looking forward to this year's #monsoon session at #EGU25 in Vienna/Wien! Posters on Monday afternoon and talks on Tuesday morning meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...

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UK Earth System Model @ukesm.bsky.social · Apr 16

#TerraFIRMA researchers will be taking part in the General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union #EGU25 from 27 April until 2 May 2025. Please come and meet us! @ncas-uk.bsky.social @nceoscience.bsky.social @metoffice.bsky.social @ukceh.bsky.social
terrafirma.ac.uk/terrafirma-a...

TerraFIRMA at EGU25

TerraFIRMA researchers will be taking part in the General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union (EGU25) from Sunday 27 April until Friday 2 May 2025.

terrafirma.ac.uk

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Future Impacts, Risks and Mitigation Actions in a changing Earth @terrafirmaclimate.bsky.social · Apr 2

The UK National Climate Science Partnership has launched it's first newsletter and is organising a webinar (8th May) for the UK climate modelling community to discuss plans for delivery of results from UK models to CMIP7. Links to details via: terrafirma.ac.uk/uk-national-... #CMIP7

UK National Climate Science Partnership

The UK’s leading climate science organisations have joined forces to develop a new national alliance focused on climate solutions for society.

terrafirma.ac.uk

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Future Impacts, Risks and Mitigation Actions in a changing Earth @terrafirmaclimate.bsky.social · Apr 2

BUT a shift in perspective is needed: savannas are more fire-adapted than models assume. The role of fire in the future of forests needs attention... @ukceh.bsky.social @metoffice.bsky.social

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Future Impacts, Risks and Mitigation Actions in a changing Earth @terrafirmaclimate.bsky.social · Apr 2

Over the last 20 years, land surface and Earth system models have increasingly used fire to explain tropical ecosystem distributions, particularly the surprising scarcity of trees in savannas. terrafirma.ac.uk/20-years-lat... 👇

20 years later: Tropical ecosystems in a world without fire

Our findings suggest that the role of fire in the future of forests needs greater attention..

terrafirma.ac.uk

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