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Reposted by Wouter Dorigo

climers.bsky.social
🧑‍🏫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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mford.bsky.social
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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wetterblogat.bsky.social
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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Reposted by Wouter Dorigo, Adam H. Sobel, Suzana J. Camargo , and 1 more

wclivestream.bsky.social
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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climers.bsky.social
🚨📄 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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Reposted by Wouter Dorigo

climers.bsky.social
🌲🍃 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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by Wouter Dorigo

wouterdorigo.bsky.social
We can also add Austria to this sad list of winter wildfires: noe.orf.at/stories/3296...
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subfossilguy.bsky.social
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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by Wouter Dorigo

wouterdorigo.bsky.social
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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Reposted by Wouter Dorigo, Peter A. Stott, Samuel Morin , and 6 more

zacklabe.com
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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Reposted by Wouter Dorigo

subfossilguy.bsky.social
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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Reposted by Wouter Dorigo, Edgar G. Hertwich, Olivier Corneille , and 10 more

vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu
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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subfossilguy.bsky.social
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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climers.bsky.social
📣🎓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
streaming-video-live
livestream.kuleuven.be
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by Reto Knutti — Reposted by Wouter Dorigo

retoknutti.bsky.social
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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by Wouter Dorigo

wouterdorigo.bsky.social
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.bsky.social
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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by Wouter Dorigo

wouterdorigo.bsky.social
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.bsky.social
✔ 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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by Wouter Dorigo

wouterdorigo.bsky.social
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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Reposted by Wouter Dorigo

subfossilguy.bsky.social
'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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davidho.bsky.social
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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davidho.bsky.social
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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geodepartment.bsky.social
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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by Wouter Dorigo

wouterdorigo.bsky.social
#drought ÷ #heat =

by Wouter Dorigo

wouterdorigo.bsky.social
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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Reposted by Wouter Dorigo, Andreas Oschlies, Mikko Sipilä , and 9 more

davidho.bsky.social
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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by Wouter Dorigo — Reposted by Luis Samaniego

wouterdorigo.bsky.social
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
mford.bsky.social
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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by Wouter Dorigo

by Wouter Dorigo

wouterdorigo.bsky.social
Really cool #climate #earthobservation position @esa.int Who knows one day you might be telling us what to do 😉
esaclimate.bsky.social
esaclimate @esaclimate.bsky.social · Jan 30
NEW #JOB
The team behind @esaclimate has an open vacancy for a Climate Application Scientist - ideally with knowledge of the #land surface, #terrestrial #carbon & #water cycles?

🗺️Based at the European Space Agency's ECSAT facility, Harwell, UK
📅Deadline Feb 20

More ⬇️
jobs.esa.int/job/Harwell-...
Climate Applications Scientist
Climate Applications Scientist
jobs.esa.int

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