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Laura Suarez-Gutierrez

@drlaurasuarez.bsky.social

Climate scientist investigating extreme heat, its drivers, impacts and projections under Climate Chalnge (she/her) MSCA Fellow at ETH and IPSL, formerly at MPI for Meteorology.

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a graph of high temperatures, daily severity rating and radiative power, showing how heat and DSR built up before fires broke out

a graph of high temperatures, daily severity rating and radiative power, showing how heat and DSR built up before fires broke out

Heat & very dry air that used to be rare, now very common in Spain & Portugal, putting huge strain on EU firefighting resources - at 1.3C global warming. Every additional ton of fossil fuels burnt will make European summers even more deadly & dangerous www.worldweatherattribution.org/extreme-fire...

04.09.2025 09:28 β€” πŸ‘ 188    πŸ” 97    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 2
Paisaje de montaΓ±as calcinadas con varias pistas y cortafuegos que destacan en color tierra sobre el manto negro.

Paisaje de montaΓ±as calcinadas con varias pistas y cortafuegos que destacan en color tierra sobre el manto negro.

Paisaje de montaΓ±as calcinadas con varias pistas y cortafuegos que destacan en color tierra sobre el manto negro.

Paisaje de montaΓ±as calcinadas con varias pistas y cortafuegos que destacan en color tierra sobre el manto negro.

Paisaje de montaΓ±as calcinadas con varias pistas y cortafuegos que destacan en color tierra sobre el manto negro.

Paisaje de montaΓ±as calcinadas con varias pistas y cortafuegos que destacan en color tierra sobre el manto negro.

Paisaje de montaΓ±as calcinadas con una pequeΓ±a zona arbolada aΓΊn verde en medio de del color gris negruzco de las cenizas.

Paisaje de montaΓ±as calcinadas con una pequeΓ±a zona arbolada aΓΊn verde en medio de del color gris negruzco de las cenizas.

Las imΓ‘genes de @pedroarmestre.bsky.social para @greenpeace.es tras los incendios de este verano son...

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03.09.2025 09:09 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Los incendios de Ourense, LeΓ³n y Zamora, fotografiados desde el aire El fotΓ³grafo Pedro Armestre, de la mano de Greenpeace, ha documentado gran parte de las zonas arrasadas por el fuego en Galicia y Castilla y LeΓ³n, con imΓ‘genes de lugares casi inaccesibles

πŸ“· | El fotΓ³grafo Pedro Armestre, de la mano de Greenpeace, ha documentado gran parte de las zonas arrasadas por el fuego en Galicia y Castilla y LeΓ³n, con imΓ‘genes de lugares casi inaccesibles

02.09.2025 09:34 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
#Wildfires in Spain have reached record emissions in just one week according to our #CopernicusAtmosphere data. Heatwaves & drought are fueling fires, forcing evacuations & worsening air quality hundreds of km away. πŸ”₯ Read the article for details 
https://atmosphere.copernicus.eu/spain-below-average-record-wildfire-emissions-just-one-week

#Wildfires in Spain have reached record emissions in just one week according to our #CopernicusAtmosphere data. Heatwaves & drought are fueling fires, forcing evacuations & worsening air quality hundreds of km away. πŸ”₯ Read the article for details https://atmosphere.copernicus.eu/spain-below-average-record-wildfire-emissions-just-one-week

#Wildfires in Spain have reached record emissions in just one week according to our #CopernicusAtmosphere data. Heatwaves & drought are fueling fires, forcing evacuations & worsening air quality hundreds of km away. πŸ”₯ Read the article for details
atmosphere.copernicus.eu/spain-below-...

19.08.2025 13:34 β€” πŸ‘ 207    πŸ” 160    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 29
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Europe could face weeks of 40Β°C heat in current worst-case scenario A perfect storm of conditions priming the atmosphere for extreme heat could result in devastating droughts and deadly temperatures lasting for weeks across Europe

Europe's current climate could produce a 'mega heatwave', feat. more than a month of +40C temps & intense drought

Extra scary fact: The worst-case heatwaves occur predominantly after another extreme heatwave. In other words, rolling waves of deadly heat

www.newscientist.com/article/2491...

08.08.2025 15:48 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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Large biases in the frequency of water limitation across Earth system models - Communications Earth & Environment CMIP6 Earth system models overestimate the frequency of water-limited conditions on land, by about 14% globally and 26% in the tropics, according to analyses using solar-induced fluorescence, satellit...

Can we trust Earth system models to locate and quantify land-surface water stress?

www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Thank you @soniaseneviratne.bsky.social, @ryanpad.bsky.social, Benjamin Stocker and Dominik Schumacher

19.06.2025 08:45 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Happening today! #EGU25

29.04.2025 06:55 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Transdisciplinary coordination is essential for advancing agricultural modeling with machine learning Crop models play a key role in understanding and improving the climate-change resilience of food systems. If appropriately used, machine learning can help tackle some of the critical challenges of agr...

Transdisciplinary coordination is essential for advancing agricultural modelling with machine learning. The opportunities are great, but to avoid pitfalls, we need to establish benchmarks, evaluation criteria and best practices. Our perspective: www.cell.com/one-earth/fu... @cp-oneearth.bsky.social

28.04.2025 13:47 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2

Co-convened by @erichfischer.bsky.social, @edhawkins.org, Henrique Goulart & Antonio Sanchez.

27.04.2025 12:09 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#EGU25 is about to start!

If you're there, check out our session on High-impact Climate Extremes on Tuesday, room 🟨 F1

πŸ§ͺ: meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...

With many exciting talks, including the CL Division Outstanding ECS Award Lecture by
@kornhuber.bsky.social

27.04.2025 12:05 β€” πŸ‘ 32    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 3
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Heading to #EGU25? Curious about how climate change boosted Valencia's floods in October 2024?

Don't miss our talk next Tuesday, April 29, at 09:45 AM in Session CL3.2.4 in Room F1! πŸŒπŸ“’ #ClimateChange #StormDynamics

25.04.2025 09:24 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
Time series of daily mean temperatures averaged for each EGU General Assembly (2005-2024). Data: ERA5

Time series of daily mean temperatures averaged for each EGU General Assembly (2005-2024). Data: ERA5

What better way to prepare for #EGU25 than to calculate the mean temperature in Vienna during the conference for each year since the @egu.eu was established πŸ€“πŸ“ˆ Considering the current weather forecast for next week, this edition we might have a record year 🌑️

25.04.2025 15:36 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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How to stop being surprised by unprecedented weather Nature Communications - Unprecedented weather events are increasingly impacting societies worldwide. This Perspective explores methods to anticipate such hazards, and it highlights the role of...

How to stop being surprised by unprecedented weather?

Transformative adaptation, foundation for long-term resilience, supported by incremental adaptation through upgrading existing infrastructure, and reactive adaptation - early action and disaster response.

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

11.03.2025 10:28 β€” πŸ‘ 63    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
A GIF of the perspective piece

A GIF of the perspective piece

1/ How to Stop Being Surprised by Unprecedented Weather

Our new @naturecomms.bsky.social paper provides our multi-author perspective on methods to anticipate extreme weather and reduce impacts, shifting from reacting with surprise towards resilience.

πŸ”— Read it here: doi.org/10.1038/s414...

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11.03.2025 14:02 β€” πŸ‘ 69    πŸ” 24    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 5

It's hard to comprehend the scale at which supertrawlers are murdering life in the oceans.

11.03.2025 09:13 β€” πŸ‘ 589    πŸ” 335    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 25
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How to stop being surprised by unprecedented weather Nature Communications - Unprecedented weather events are increasingly impacting societies worldwide. This Perspective explores methods to anticipate such hazards, and it highlights the role of...

How to stop being surprised by unprecedented weather

Kelder et al. discusses a multitude of ways that we could anticipate unprecedented weather events that might otherwise be a surprise

rdcu.be/ecWQF

11.03.2025 09:53 β€” πŸ‘ 86    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 7

We have seen many record-shattering and unprecedented weather extremes in recent years. In the paper led by @timokelder.bsky.social we review methods on how to stop being surprised by the next one.

11.03.2025 10:24 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A global high-resolution and bias-corrected dataset of CMIP6 projected heat stress metrics - Scientific Data Scientific Data - A global high-resolution and bias-corrected dataset of CMIP6 projected heat stress metrics

We have described and made available through Nature Scientific Data our global high resolution bias corrected CMIP6 derived wet-bulb and wet-bulb globe temperature data and codes. This is currently the most accurate formulation of these metrics available. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

23.02.2025 17:51 β€” πŸ‘ 124    πŸ” 41    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 4
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Mortality impacts of the most extreme heat events - Nature Reviews Earth & Environment Extreme heat is increasing in magnitude and frequency, threatening human health. This Review assesses mortality risk associated with extreme heat, revealing that human thermal tolerances (that is, unc...

For extreme heat, each year seems to bring fresh examples of precedents being surpassed β€” in heat severity, but also in understanding of its physics and risks. A group of us led by Tom Matthews and Radley Horton have assembled a review of this knowledge whirlwind: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

04.02.2025 20:11 β€” πŸ‘ 41    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

physics of climate impacts 101:
- Stuff gets hot (worse heatwaves)
- Hot air holds more water vapor (heavier rainfall)
- Hot air is thirstier air (higher drought risk)
- Warm water is hurricane food (stronger storms)
- Hot water expands and hot ice melts (sea level rise)

14.01.2025 21:48 β€” πŸ‘ 9974    πŸ” 2298    πŸ’¬ 306    πŸ“Œ 125
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NEW – Analysis: The climate papers most featured in the media in 2024 | @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org

Read here: https://buff.ly/4heAVMH

15.01.2025 08:00 β€” πŸ‘ 74    πŸ” 45    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 3
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Not that we really need more ways to show how unusually warm 2024 was...

Here's the joyplot updated with the past year.

15.01.2025 03:18 β€” πŸ‘ 388    πŸ” 160    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 10
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'Free Our Feeds' campaign aims to billionaire-proofΒ Bluesky’s tech | TechCrunch The initiative, Free Our Feeds, aims to protect Bluesky’s underlying technology, the AT Protocol, and leverage it to create an open social media ecosystem that can’t be controlled by a single company ...

This campaign is so good & so important. Please support it!

14.01.2025 19:22 β€” πŸ‘ 339    πŸ” 120    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 8
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Are you working on High-impact Climate Extremes? Join our #EGU25 session!

πŸ§ͺ: meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...

With an exciting talk by invited speaker @vikkithompson.bsky.social, and co-convened @erichfischer.bsky.social, @edhawkins.org, Henrique Goulart & Antonio Sanchez.

08.01.2025 12:14 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ“’ One week left to submit #EGU25 abstracts!

Join us if you're working on understanding how climate variability will shape future floods and droughts! πŸŒ§οΈπŸοΈπŸ’§

πŸ”— meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...

Ft. exciting talk by invited speaker @drlaurasuarez.bsky.social

@ukceh.bsky.social

08.01.2025 22:08 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Are you working on High-impact Climate Extremes? Join our #EGU25 session!

πŸ§ͺ: meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...

With an exciting talk by invited speaker @vikkithompson.bsky.social, and co-convened @erichfischer.bsky.social, @edhawkins.org, Henrique Goulart & Antonio Sanchez.

08.01.2025 12:14 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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#EGU25 Call for Abstracts

High-impact climate extremes: from physical understanding and storylines to impacts and solutions

With @drlaurasuarez.bsky.social, @erichfischer.bsky.social, @edhawkins.org, Henrique Goulart, Antonio Sanchez Benitez.

meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...

07.01.2025 07:02 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Humid heat exceeds human tolerance limits and causes mass mortality - Nature Climate Change The hottest boreal summer on record has driven widespread humid heat mortality across every continent of the Northern Hemisphere. With critical physiological limits to human heat tolerance drawing eve...

Humid heat exceeds human tolerance limits and causes mass mortality www.nature.com/articles/s41...

18.12.2024 23:30 β€” πŸ‘ 41    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 4

Let the world's largest iceberg inspire you: Even after spending months spinning in the same spot, you too can become unstuck.

17.12.2024 19:49 β€” πŸ‘ 2660    πŸ” 390    πŸ’¬ 36    πŸ“Œ 18
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2024: Hottest year to date, and first year over 1.5ΒΊC | Climate & Capitalism 16 of the past 17 months exceeded the Paris Agreement target…

2024: Hottest year to date, and first year over 1.5ΒΊC #Climate

17.12.2024 15:16 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

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