Wouter Dorigo

🧑‍🏫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...

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

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

🚨📄 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

🌲🍃 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...

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

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)

NOAA firings hit the birthplace of weather and climate forecasting Dismissed researchers were improving severe weather predictions

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"

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...

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

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.

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

📣🎓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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

✔ 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...

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

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/...

'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...

Summer student job in climate and environmental remote sensing Open position

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...

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.

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 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

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.

#drought ÷ #heat =

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

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.

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

Really cool #climate #earthobservation position @esa.int Who knows one day you might be telling us what to do 😉

Jetzt unterzeichnen: Das Klimaticket muss bleiben! Blau-Schwarze Sparmaßnahmen könnten das Aus für das Klimaticket bedeuten. Das wäre ein Rückschritt für Klimaschutz und belastend für Pendler_innen.

Falls du es noch nicht getan hast: Sparmaßnahmen von #FPÖVP könnten das Aus für das #Klimaticket bedeuten. Das wäre ein Rückschritt für Klimaschutz und belastend für Pendler_innen. Unterschreibt hier für den Erhalt des Klimatickets: mein.aufstehn.at/petitions/da...

Great paper by our former @climers.bsky.social team member Matthias!

Potential of long-term satellite observations and reanalysis products for characterising soil drying: trends and drought events Abstract. Soil drying has multiple adverse impacts on the environment, society, and economy. Thus, it is crucial to monitor and characterise related drought events and to understand how underlying geo...

How are #soil moisture #trends and #droughts represented in @esaclimate.bsky.social, @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social and reanalysis products?

With @soniaseneviratne.bsky.social @climers.bsky.social

hess.copernicus.org/articles/29/...

Das Klimaticket muss bleiben! Weil eine Abschaffung für PendlerInnen erhebliche Mehrkosten bedeutet. Man braucht sich nicht um Fahrscheine für die verschiedenen Verkehrsmittel bemühen, die Benützung derselben bedeutet eine große C...

mein.aufstehn.at/petitions/da...