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ESM2025 @esm2025.bsky.social · 15h

Back from our vegan lunch — espresso kicks in.

Two rooms, two workshops:
•TCRE- @chrisd-jones.bsky.social @metoffice.gov.uk
•ESM Challenges: Complexity, Resolution & AI - chaired by Colin Jones @universityofleeds.bsky.social with presentations for various ESM2025 researchers.

#ESM2025inToulouse

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ESM2025 @esm2025.bsky.social · 20h

GA Day2 kicks off!☕☀️
Keynote#3 "RCMIP2-a framework for simple climate modelling in the IPCC 7th assess & beyond"

Why Coordinated Calibration Matters?
➡️It allows us to separate the influence of model structure from calibration choices.
@benmsanderson.bsky.social @cicero.oslo.no
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ESM2025 @esm2025.bsky.social · 1d

Now onto 2 collaborative workshops for the community:

📈 Improving the assessment of the transient climate response to cumulative CO₂ chaired by @chrisd-jones.bsky.social @uniofreading.bsky.social

📊: Model Selection workshop, chaired by Eleanor O'Rourke @wcrp-cmip.org

#ESM2025inToulouse

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

The UKESM team is participating in ESM2025 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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Kaitlin Naughten @kaitlinnaughten.bsky.social · 20d

The Greenland Ice/Ocean Modeller (supervised by me) will advance the @ukesm.bsky.social's representation of Greenland's meltwater release to the ocean, and study implications for the collapse of the North Atlantic Subpolar Gyre: bas.ciphr-irecruit.com/applicants/v...

British Antarctic Survey Careers | Greenland Ice/Ocean Modeller

Two post-doctoral research positions in ocean and ice sheet modelling: Greenland Ice/Ocean Modeller and Ice Modeller/Emulation Scientist

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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

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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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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

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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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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PIK_climate @pik-potsdam.bsky.social · Jun 19

New paper shows the pace of global warming has roughly doubled since the 1980s.

Led by @piersforster.bsky.social, over 60 scientists have worked to update "Indicators of Global Climate Change" - including PIK researchers @wflamb.bsky.social and Jan Minx.
www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...

Pace of warming has doubled since 1980s

19.06.2025 – The rate of global heating in the period 2012-2024 has roughly doubled from the 1980s according to the latest peer-reviewed update of “Indicators of Global Climate Change” published today...

www.pik-potsdam.de

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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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UK Earth System Model @ukesm.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.

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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.

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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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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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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · Apr 3

Millions of people die prematurely from air pollution every year, as you can see in the chart.

This problem has existed since humans started burning materials for fuel — first wood and biomass, then fossil fuels.

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

Whilst the TerraFIRMA project team is UK based, many of our team members are involved in a number of EU projects. The member-driven #ClimateResearchNet helps us to amplify our research findings, share best practices and find ways to collaborate on climate research 👇@ncas-uk.bsky.social

ESM2025 @esm2025.bsky.social · Apr 2

✨It was a pleasure to reconnect with so many inspiring colleagues at the 5th meeting of the #ClimateResearchNet today!

We explored collaboration opportunities, shared experiences, & brainstormed creative ways to strengthen climate research communication. 🌍🌱

More about it👇🧵or bit.ly/climaterese...

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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..

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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.

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Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · Mar 19

‪🚨New publication alert!🚨 🌊
As part of the @terrafirmaclimate.bsky.social project, we've been looking at the fate of the #SpringBloom in the #NorthAtlantic #SubpolarGyre using our model, NEMO-MEDUSA (forced by @ukesm.bsky.social) ... agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Abrupt Changes in the Timing and Magnitude of the North Atlantic Bloom Over the 21st Century

Future stability of the North Atlantic bloom (NAB) examined using Earth system and high-resolution ocean model configurations The NAB collapses (halving of chlorophyll) across much of the North A...

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