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Junior Professor for Climate Attribution at @meteoleipzig.bsky.social

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NEW – Guest post: How climate change is fuelling record-breaking extreme weather | @erichfischer.bsky.social‬

Read here: buff.ly/bnrSvQN

13.06.2025 10:00 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 4

High warming rate fuels record-breaking weather

The longer our measurements, the fewer record-breaking events we should observe.

The opposite is the case - many more records and higher record margins

I summarise the key takeaways of our β€ͺ@natrevearthenviron.nature.com article in a guest post.

13.06.2025 10:40 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Record-breaking extremes in a warming climate Nature Reviews Earth & Environment - Multiple record-breaking climate events have been observed, posing socioeconomic risks. This Review outlines observed and projected changes in...

Find the original @natrevearthenviron.nature.com article with important contributions from co-authors Margot Bador, RaphaΓ«l Huser, Lizzie Kendon, Alexander Robinson, and @sebastian-sippel.bsky.social
rdcu.be/eqPrN

13.06.2025 10:40 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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🚨New Review!

'Record-breaking extremes in a warming climate'

By β€ͺ@erichfischer.bsky.social, @sebastian-sippel.bsky.social et al.

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

02.06.2025 13:40 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Schematic illustrations of the onset mechanisms of compound heat flash droughts and non-heat flash droughts

Schematic illustrations of the onset mechanisms of compound heat flash droughts and non-heat flash droughts

βš’οΈ Article: Flash droughts that are accompanied by extreme heat drive more severe and prolonged impacts on global ecosystems

@erichfischer.bsky.social @ethz.ch @louiseslater.bsky.social @sebastian-sippel.bsky.social @retoknutti.bsky.social

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

02.06.2025 15:00 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Constraining the time of emergence of anthropogenic signal in the global land carbon sink Abstract. The global land carbon sink has increased since the preindustrial period, driven by increasing atmospheric CO2 concentration and climate change. However, detecting these anthropogenic signal...

How long does it take until we detect forced signals in global and regional land carbon fluxes?

And can we use dynamical adjustment to reduce the noise and shorten the detection time?

Check out LiNa's paper πŸ‘‡
egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...

Co-advised by @sebastian-sippel.bsky.social

20.05.2025 10:28 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
https://metsoc.jp/jmsj/EOR/2025-002.pdf

5/4 p.s: The new paper by Ishii and colleagues (t.co/YeCrlimA3N) also highlights the sudden changes in NMAT (HadNMAT2 vs. CRUTEM5) around the mid-1910s in their Figure 3.

09.12.2024 14:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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4/4 The year 1914 is characterised by a strong El-Nino (the uptick is seen consistently in land, SST and NMAT temperatures), the start of WWI and a sudden change in data sources (figure 2 below). Whether any of those events is responsible for the NMAT changes during this time, remains to be seen.

09.12.2024 14:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

3/4 So it is crucial to better understand the NMAT puzzle piece, as the evidence that comes from ClassNMAT from the perspective of the GMST reconstructions from land vs. ocean is rather split for the 1900-1930 period. It may tell us something important about the ~1900s (1900-1913) vs. 1914 onwards.

09.12.2024 14:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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2/4 The result is puzzling (figure 1 below, ClassNMAT seen in panel a and b): GMST based on NMATs is indeed *very* cold in the 1900s, following the SST-based GMST time series up until 1913. Yet, from 1914 onwards, the NMAT-based reconstruction is close(r) to the LSAT-based reconstruction...

09.12.2024 14:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Revised historical record sharpens perspective on global warming Undercorrection of ocean surface temperatures revealed.

1/4 Thanks for sharing your reflections! fascinating to read the more personal take behind the nice News&Views piece (www.nature.com/articles/d41...).
Just one after-thought on night marine air temperatures (NMAT). NMATs are a crucial puzzle piece, and we ran a GMST reconstruction for ClassNMAT:

09.12.2024 14:58 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

very interesting project! I'm looking forward to learn about the results...

05.12.2024 10:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Early-twentieth-century cold bias in ocean surface temperature observations - Nature Independent statistical reconstructions of the global mean surface temperature from either ocean or land data show that existing estimates of early-twentieth-century ocean surface temperatures are too...

New paper by Sebastian Sippel and colleagues provides evidence that the SST component of most current global temperature datasets is too cold during (roughly) 1900-1930.
doi.org/10.1038/s415...

20.11.2024 16:23 β€” πŸ‘ 65    πŸ” 26    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 5
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Early-twentieth-century cold bias in ocean surface temperature observations - Nature Independent statistical reconstructions of the global mean surface temperature from either ocean or land data show that existing estimates of early-twentieth-century ocean surface temperatures are too...

A new paper led by Sebastian Sippel just appeared in Nature arguing that ocean temperature measurements in the early 20th century have a cold bias.

It's a fun story illustrating the process of scientific discovery, so let me talk about it a bit. 🧡

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

22.11.2024 09:37 β€” πŸ‘ 278    πŸ” 92    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 24
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Redrawing the global warming stripes.

In a new paper led by Sebastian Sippel published in Nature today, we show that the early 20th century global ocean surface temperatures and thereby global mean surface temperature were warmer than previously thought.

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20.11.2024 16:13 β€” πŸ‘ 250    πŸ” 78    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 18
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Early-twentieth-century cold bias in ocean surface temperature observations - Nature Independent statistical reconstructions of the global mean surface temperature from either ocean or land data show that existing estimates of early-twentieth-century ocean surface temperatures are too...

Breaking News!

Seminal paper by our own Sebastian Sippel & colleagues published in Nature @natureportfolio.bsky.social today! They provide evidence that the Sea Surface Temperatures in most current global temperature datasets are considerably too cold (1900-1930):

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

20.11.2024 19:39 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

interesting discussion! i've been thinking along similar lines - sea level pressure, precipitation or even sea level height measurements at the time could give very interesting constraints...

03.12.2024 16:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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