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Reposted by: Tim Woollings, Richard Davy

antjeweisheimer.bsky.social
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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by Tim Woollings

timwoollings.bsky.social
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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Reposted by: Tim Woollings

climateoxford.bsky.social
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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by Tim Woollings — Reposted by: David N. Thomas

timwoollings.bsky.social
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
Job Details
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Reposted by: Tim Woollings

drsturobinson.bsky.social
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.
Job Details
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Reposted by: Tim Woollings

timwoollings.bsky.social
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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Reposted by: Tim Woollings

ilesla.bsky.social
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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Reposted by: Tim Woollings, Elizabeth A. Barnes

eabarnes.bsky.social
Incredibly honored to have been awarded the #PECASE.
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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-...
CSU professor receives Presidential honor
President Joe Biden this week awarded Colorado State University Professor Elizabeth Barnes with the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers – the U.S. government’s highest honor f...
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Reposted by: Tim Woollings

timwoollings.bsky.social
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

by Tim Woollings

timwoollings.bsky.social
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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Reposted by: Tim Woollings

climateoxford.bsky.social
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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Reposted by: Tim Woollings

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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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Reposted by: Tim Woollings

climatebook.bsky.social
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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Reposted by: Tim Woollings, Benjamin I. Cook

edhawkins.org
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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by Erich Fischer — Reposted by: Tim Woollings, Jamie Hannaford, Paulo Ceppi , and 1 more

erichfischer.bsky.social
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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by Tim Woollings

timwoollings.bsky.social
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 👇
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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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Reposted by: Tim Woollings

simonleewx.com
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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Reposted by: Tim Woollings

climatebook.bsky.social
#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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by Tim Woollings

timwoollings.bsky.social
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...
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Reposted by: Tim Woollings

dmarshallocean.bsky.social
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!
Karen Heywood Houghton Lecture
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Reposted by: Tim Woollings

hcbloomfield19.bsky.social
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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by Tim Woollings

timwoollings.bsky.social
Still time - abstract deadline for BACO2025 now extended to 25 Feb!
timwoollings.bsky.social
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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Reposted by: Tim Woollings

ambroeusvolonte.bsky.social
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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by Tim Woollings

timwoollings.bsky.social
Great news - well done Libby!
eabarnes.bsky.social
Elizabeth A. Barnes @eabarnes.bsky.social · Jan 17
Incredibly honored to have been awarded the #PECASE.
cira-csu.bsky.social
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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by Tim Woollings

timwoollings.bsky.social
2 weeks left to apply for a NERC-funded PhD place at Oxford!
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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
iles.web.ox.ac.uk

by Tim Woollings

timwoollings.bsky.social
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.
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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
skjemaker.app.uib.no
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by Tim Woollings

timwoollings.bsky.social
New climate science faculty post going in the great Earth Sciences dept here at Oxford. Details below...
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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.
Job Details
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Reposted by: Tim Woollings

hemant-khatri.bsky.social
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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Reposted by: Tim Woollings

ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org
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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Reposted by: Tim Woollings

jbeverley.bsky.social
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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