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Antje Weisheimer @antjeweisheimer.bsky.social · 8d

Are you interested in seasonal forecasts and how they have advanced over the past two decades?
Chris O’Reilly (Univ. of Reading) led a new paper on exactly this: rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Evaluating seasonal forecast improvements over the past two decades

We have analysed the performance of operational seasonal forecasting models since their inception. Clear improvements are measured through the different model eras, particularly in the Tropics. For t....

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Tim Woollings @timwoollings.bsky.social · Aug 14

Two postdoc jobs available on our Arctic Butterflies project! (Not actual butterflies - basically Arctic dynamics and predictability - the butterfly effect in the Arctic...)

Oxford job: tinyurl.com/yc6h4b35

Reading job: tinyurl.com/ypn75jh2

Please help spread the word!

Job Details

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Oxford Climate Research Network @climateoxford.bsky.social · Aug 6

Oxford Climate Research Network are recruiting!

Join OCRN as the network coordinator (0.6FTE) and help us raise the impact, effectiveness, and profile of climate research at Oxford University.

Deadline: midday 8 Sept 2025

@oxuniearthsci.bsky.social

More details: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

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Tim Woollings @timwoollings.bsky.social · Jul 29

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

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Tim Woollings @timwoollings.bsky.social · Jun 7

Great Climate Justice event last night at the #RHRNCimate Summit @morethanadodo.bsky.social @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social late night at the museum. Well done everyone, including @climateoxford.bsky.social @geologisetheatre.bsky.social!

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Oxford Climate Research Network @climateoxford.bsky.social · Jun 6

Today's climate events in the #RHRNClimate Summit local programme. #MutiraoGlobalCOP30

🗓️ Fri 6 Jun PART 1/3

➡️ All day - Global Youth Climate Summit
➡️ Until 4pm - Climate and Law Conference
➡️ 10-2pm & 2-4pm - Environmental photography exhibit
➡️ 11am - Call for Code

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Matt Patterson @mattpattclimate.bsky.social · May 12

One of our motivations for writing this was a prevalent misconception that blocking systems are becoming more common.

They aren’t. They’re projected to become less frequent.

However, the hot and dry spring is consistent with climate change.

@ncas-uk.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social

Simon Lee @simonleewx.com · May 12

How the weather got ‘stuck’ over the UK – and produced an unusually dry and warm spring

Article in The Conversation from me and @mattpattclimate.bsky.social, discussing spring 2025, blocking and climate change.

theconversation.com/how-the-weat...

How the weather got ‘stuck’ over the UK – and produced an unusually dry and warm spring

‘April showers’ were few and far between in 2025.

theconversation.com

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ClimateBook @climatebook.bsky.social · May 9

The ERC Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral programme is now open . marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/news/msca-op... , closing 10 Sept. (but the Oxford Physics internal deadline is 16 June). A great opportunity for folks from outside the UK to come do a two-year postdoc at Oxford.

MSCA opens €404.3 million call for Postdoctoral Fellowships

Postdoctoral Fellowships offer researchers holding a PhD the opportunity to acquire new skills through advanced training and international, interdisciplinary, and inter-sectoral mobility.

marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · May 8

Do you have research interests in sub-seasonal prediction, high resolution modelling or data assimilation of the Earth system?

Open junior and senior fellowship opportunities in partnership with University of Reading, ECMWF, NCAS and UK Met Office:

research.reading.ac.uk/earth-system...

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Tim Woollings @timwoollings.bsky.social · Mar 13

Thanks to Tiffany and Isla for leading this review paper - and the workshop last year which inspired it!

And thanks to @erichfischer.bsky.social for a great thread summarising it 👇

Erich Fischer @erichfischer.bsky.social · Mar 13

Can climate models reproduce observed trends?

The answer can be challenging. Our new review paper in Science Advances led by Isla Simpson and Tiffany Shaw @drshaw.bsky.social discusses challenges and ways forward in confronting climate models and observations.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Simon Lee @simonleewx.com · Mar 12

10th UK Climate Dynamics Workshop 2025

7–9 July, Met Office, Exeter

Abstract deadline 16 May

www.rmets.org/event/10th-u...

10th UK Climate Dynamics Workshop 2025

UK Climate Dynamics Workshops are annual in-person events aiming to promote collaboration amongst the UK academic sector and the Met Office.

www.rmets.org

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ClimateBook @climatebook.bsky.social · Mar 12

#NotInOurSky : Our opinion piece with Mike Mann on the extreme dangers of ARIA's solar geoengineering project, which is reviewing proposals including field experiments right now: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The UK’s gamble on solar geoengineering is like using aspirin for cancer | Raymond Pierrehumbert and Michael Mann

Injecting pollutants into the atmosphere to reflect the sun would be extremely dangerous, but the UK is funding field trials

www.theguardian.com

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Tim Woollings @timwoollings.bsky.social · Mar 6

New paper on European blocking just out:
rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Quite surprising - we looked at how blocking depends on physical parameters in a model and found very few sensitivities - only to convection in summer and to drag in winter.
@cfmcswede.bsky.social

Sensitivity of European blocking to physical parameters in a large ensemble climate model experiment

Atmospheric blocking over Europe is found to have surprisingly limited sensitivity to variations of physical parameters in a climate model. Some sensitivity of winter blocking is shown here to nsigma...

rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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David Marshall @dmarshallocean.bsky.social · Mar 4

Wonderful to welcome Prof. Karen Heywood to deliver the annual @ox.ac.uk - @metoffice.bsky.social Houghton Lecture at @oxfordphysics.bsky.social this afternoon, a great choice!

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Hannah Bloomfield @hcbloomfield19.bsky.social · Feb 25

New paper day!

Increasingly Seasonal Jet Stream Raises Risk of Co-Occurring Flooding and Extreme Wind in Great Britain

rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The final piece in the CGFI and friends compound wind flood risk puzzle, led by John Hillier :-)

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Tim Woollings @timwoollings.bsky.social · Feb 19

Still time - abstract deadline for BACO2025 now extended to 25 Feb!

Tim Woollings @timwoollings.bsky.social · Nov 20

Abstract submission now open for IUGG BACO-25 meeting in Busan, Korea in July 2025: www.baco-25.org/new/

Please consider our joint session JMP10: Ocean-Atmosphere Mechanisms of Climate Variability, Change and Predictability

Busan IAMAS-IACS-IAPSO Joint Assembly 2025

Busan IAMAS-IACS-IAPSO Joint Assembly 2025, BACO-25

www.baco-25.org

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Ambrogio Volonté @ambroeusvolonte.bsky.social · Jan 24

We've put together a little explainer on Storm Éowyn, its development, where it stands compared to other (in)famous storms and on whether future explosive cyclones could become more "sting-jetty" and diabatically driven
theconversation.com/why-meteorol...
@ncas-uk.bsky.social

Why meteorologists are comparing Storm Éowyn to a bomb

Éowyn’s wind speeds are comparable with the most infamous storms of recent years and decades.

theconversation.com

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Tim Woollings @timwoollings.bsky.social · Jan 18

Great news - well done Libby!

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 🎉

engr.source.colostate.edu/white-house-...

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Tim Woollings @timwoollings.bsky.social · Jan 16

2 weeks left to apply for a NERC-funded PhD place at Oxford!

ilesla.bsky.social @ilesla.bsky.social · Jan 16

Two weeks to go until the application deadline for ILESLA. If you or anyone you know would benefit from full funding to carry out a PhD in Life and/or Environmental Science please visit/refer to our website page iles.web.ox.ac.uk/how-apply where you can see open day videos and get full guidance.

How to Apply and Funding

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Tim Woollings @timwoollings.bsky.social · Jan 15

Abstract deadline for the storm tracks workshop has been extended to 20 January - please tell your friends!

Will be a great meeting in a wonderful place.

Tim Woollings @timwoollings.bsky.social · Jan 7

We have another great Stormtracks workshop coming up: Rosendal, Norway (near Bergen), 15-20 June 2025.

Abstract submissions deadline is approaching fast: 15 January 2025.

More information:
stormtracks2025.w.uib.no

Please consider coming, and also help spread the word!

Stormtracks 2025 Workshop

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Tim Woollings @timwoollings.bsky.social · Jan 7

We have another great Stormtracks workshop coming up: Rosendal, Norway (near Bergen), 15-20 June 2025.

Abstract submissions deadline is approaching fast: 15 January 2025.

More information:
stormtracks2025.w.uib.no

Please consider coming, and also help spread the word!

Stormtracks 2025 Workshop

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Tim Woollings @timwoollings.bsky.social · Dec 11

New climate science faculty post going in the great Earth Sciences dept here at Oxford. Details below...

Dr Stuart Robinson @drsturobinson.bsky.social · Dec 10

Faculty job alert!! Come join the team @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social

We are recruiting an Associate Professor of Climate Science with a Tutorial Fellowship @ www.st-hughs.ox.ac.uk

Application deadline 7th Feb. 2025

Details here: tinyurl.com/yc3axenr

Please Quote. DM/email me for more information.

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Hemant Khatri @hemant-khatri.bsky.social · Dec 9

Excited to share our latest research, which tries to answer the question of “how long does the ocean remember?”

To find out more, see press release and article.
news.liverpool.ac.uk/2024/12/03/r...

@ricliv.bsky.social @timwoollings.bsky.social

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Ayesha Tandon @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org · Nov 26

Calling all Oxford climate folks!

Oxford climate drinks is back on Thursday 5th December. Come grab a pint, meet like-minded people and chat about all things climate 🌎 All welcome!

🗓 Thursday 5 December
🕕 From 6pm
🍻 The Victoria, Jericho

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Jonathan Beverley @jbeverley.bsky.social · Nov 20

Hello Bluesky! My first post on here seems like a good opportunity to advertise our new paper that was published in npj Climate and Atmospheric Science today:

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Climate model trend errors are evident in seasonal forecasts at short leads - npj Climate and Atmospheric Science

npj Climate and Atmospheric Science - Climate model trend errors are evident in seasonal forecasts at short leads

www.nature.com

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