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Climate and Environmental Remote Sensing @TU Wien GEO @climers.bsky.social · Sep 8

🧑‍🏫Ukrainian STEM talents visited us to learn how #AI aids #ClimateChange adaptation🌳lecture by @wouterdorigo.bsky.social & Emanuel Büechi
Great to engage with these motivated students🧠
Thanks to @aithyra.bsky.social, MmF & Dmytro Rzhemovskyi for the neat organization👏
mmf.univie.ac.at/ai-science-s...

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The Weather & Climate Livestream @wclivestream.bsky.social · May 27

Our 💯 hours to #SaveAmericasForecasts starts tomorrow!

Tune in to hear over 200+ US meteorologists and climate scientists share the importance of federally funded weather and climate research!

wclivestream.com

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Climate and Environmental Remote Sensing @TU Wien GEO @climers.bsky.social · Apr 29

🚨📄 Paper alert!
🎉 Congrats to long-term collaborator Richard de Jeu on his new paper unlocking Ka-band microwave for land-surface temp & vegetation monitoring. 🌍📡 @wouterdorigo.bsky.social @ruxizotta.bsky.social
🔗 doi.org/10.3389/frsen.2025.1574072
#RemoteSensing #KaBand #VOD

Frontiers | Analyzing satellite and airborne Ka-band passive microwave observations over land for temperature and vegetation monitoring

doi.org

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Climate and Environmental Remote Sensing @TU Wien GEO @climers.bsky.social · Mar 21

🌲🍃 It's #WorldForestDay 2025 🍂🌳

📉 Forests are changing fast. This animation shows deforestation in Brazil, using Landsat and VODCA2GPP.

🌍 Long-term satellite data help us understand climate impacts and ecosystem change.

🛰️ Based on the work of @ruxizotta.bsky.social
🔗 doi.org/10.5194/essd...

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Wouter Dorigo @wouterdorigo.bsky.social · Mar 8

We can also add Austria to this sad list of winter wildfires: noe.orf.at/stories/3296...

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · Mar 8

Gepatschferner (Kaunertal, Tirol, AT)
2020 | 2024

Demise of the largest glacier in Tirol over the last 5 years! 😱

When the landscape is evolving at a non-geological speed... 🔥

📽️ Martin Mergili (Uni Graz), Stefan Haselberger (Uni Wien/PHUSICOS)

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · Mar 5

Hi - I'd like to share this story of what is happening at NOAA GFDL, where some of my colleagues and I worked until the mass firings at NOAA last week.

"...the birthplace of weather and climate forecasting"

NOAA firings hit the birthplace of weather and climate forecasting

Dismissed researchers were improving severe weather predictions

www.science.org

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Wouter Dorigo @wouterdorigo.bsky.social · Mar 5

Zeigt unseren Kolleg*innen in den #USA unsere Unterstützung! #aufstehn für freie, unzensierte und zukunftsorientierte #WissenSchafft.
#MarchforScience in #Wien: Freitag, 7 März 13:00 vor der @univie.ac.at
@de.scientists4future.org at.scientists4future.org/2025/02/24/7...

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · Mar 1

Record low snowcover in the Alps! 🔥

At Zugspitze (highest GER mountain), the previous 145 cm record low (1972) for a 1st march has been smashed today: 110 cm! ❄️😱

Really worrying about the drought this summer (not to mention the glaciers...) 📈

🙏 @jojoski2.bsky.social

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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · Feb 28

Your dignity honors the bravery of the Ukrainian people.

Be strong, be brave, be fearless.
You are never alone, dear President Zelenskyy.

We will continue working with you for a just and lasting peace.

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · Feb 28

Distressing snow conditions across the Alps! 🔥

At (what should be) the peak of the winter season! 😱

91 cm at Rudolfshütte, 2317 m (Salzburg, AT)
17 cm at Ristolas, 1665 m (Queyras, FR)
1 cm at Sella Nevea, 1124 (Julian Alps, IT)

@wetterblogat.bsky.social
@gaetanheymes.bsky.social
@aametsoc

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Climate and Environmental Remote Sensing @TU Wien GEO @climers.bsky.social · Feb 28

📣🎓PhD Defense: 7 Mar 2025, 16:00 CET 🌍🛰️

Zdenko Heyvaert (KU Leuven & @tuwien.bsky.social, @geodepartment.bsky.social) will defend his PhD on

📖“Continental assimilation of satellite-based soil moisture & vegetation in land-atmosphere coupling.”

📍 livestream.kuleuven.be?pin=940064

#Climers #PhD

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livestream.kuleuven.be

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Reto Knutti @retoknutti.bsky.social · Feb 25

BP: from "Beyond Petroleum" to "Back to Petroleum"

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

BP expected to scrap renewables target in shift back to fossil fuels

Goal of increasing renewable energy generation 20-fold to be ditched, shareholders to be told this week

www.theguardian.com

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Wouter Dorigo @wouterdorigo.bsky.social · Feb 24

Jetzt ist es offiziell: Der schneeärmste Winter jemals in #Wien gemessen
***Now it'sofficial*** The least snow ever recorded in a winter in #Vienna
We had the pleasure of celebrating 1 cm. In total.

wetterblogAT @wetterblogat.bsky.social · Feb 24

An allen Ecken, Enden und Höhen unseres Landes fehlt es in diesem Winter an #Schnee - die Schneebilanz ist österreichweit horrend.
#Wien verzeichnet überhaupt einen Negativrekord: Mit in Summe 1 cm geht der Winter 2024/25 als der schneeärmster der Wiener Messgeschichte zu Ende.

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Wouter Dorigo @wouterdorigo.bsky.social · Feb 24

Früher haben wir Wintersportler immer gesagt: der Jänner bringt die Kälte, der Februar den Schnee. Dieses Muster lässt sich heute nur ganz schwer erkennen... #dürre #klimawandel #drought #österreich
#geosphere

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esaclimate @esaclimate.bsky.social · Feb 21

✔ A growing number of Jupyter Notebooks are helping climate researchers discover the potential of the #ESA #CCI data via the toolbox. They can access and analyse more than four decades of global CCI climate data and benefit from user examples. More info: climate.esa.int/en/data/#/da...

Data

The Open Data Portal hosts the suite of Essential Climate Variable datasets produced under the Climate Change Initiative (CCI) programme as a single point of access.

climate.esa.int

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Wouter Dorigo @wouterdorigo.bsky.social · Feb 20

This is why our work on climate monitoring is so important. And we will keep on doing so, especially in times of a growing number of incompetent politicians that tell you it's all a hoax
@soniaseneviratne.bsky.social @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Two-thirds of the Earth’s surface experienced record heat in 2024. See where and by how much – visualised

In oceans and on land, from the north to the south pole, records were smashed for the monthly average temperature

www.theguardian.com

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · Feb 19

'Glacier Mass Balance Intercomparison Exercise' ❄️🧊

Huge effort to gather mass loss estimate outside ice sheets btw 2000 and 2023 📈

Since 2000, 5% ice volume lost globally (273 gigatonnes/yr) 🌊

Guess who 'won'? 🥇
Alps and Pyrenees lost 39% of their 2000 volume! 😲😱
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Geo Department @ TU Wien @geodepartment.bsky.social · Feb 11

Our @climers.bsky.social group is looking to fill two summer positions for students: www.tuwien.at/en/mg/geo/ne... www.tuwien.at/en/mg/geo/ne...

Summer student job in climate and environmental remote sensing

Open position

www.tuwien.at

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Feb 12

A constant reminder that even if CO₂ emissions decreased annually as much as they did during the pandemic lockdown from now to 2030, we still wouldn't meet our emission target to keep global warming below 1.5°C.

A line graph depicting global CO2 emissions from energy and industrial processes, along with projections from 2000 to 2100. The y-axis represents CO2 emissions in gigatons (Gt), while the x-axis marks the years. A highlighted target to keep global temperature rise below 1.5°C in 2100 is at 20 GtCO₂/yr by 2030. Also show is a line showing decrease in emissions equivalent to what occurred during the pandemic. The line misses the target by about 8 GtCO₂/yr in 2030.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Feb 12

Saw a skeet from @neilrkaye.bsky.social on a bulletin board today.

Also, if you are 30 years old, more than half of all fossil fuel CO₂ emissions have occurred in your lifetime.

A printed skeet by Neil Kaye: Just to say, if you are 30, more than half of all human fossil fuel emissions have occurred in your lifetime #dataviz

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Wouter Dorigo @wouterdorigo.bsky.social · Feb 11

#drought ÷ #heat =

Wouter Dorigo @wouterdorigo.bsky.social · Feb 11

So far, this winter has been exceptionally #dry and #warm in #Austria, leading to the worst skitouring conditions I ever encountered in February

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Feb 11

We got a message from the university to remove any use of the "DEI", "diversity", "equity", or "inclusion" from all public-facing documents. They said that even "biodiversity" is being flagged by the federal government. We live in the dumbest timeline.

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Wouter Dorigo @wouterdorigo.bsky.social · Feb 5

This is really scary. I have no words for the madness happening in the US right now. Uncertain times for our dear colleagues across the pond working on #climatechange

Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · Feb 5

They’re looting NOAA now. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Doge staffers enter Noaa headquarters and incite reports of cuts and threats

Members reportedly sought access to IT systems at agency that Project 2025 has called ‘harmful to US prosperity’

www.theguardian.com

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