UK Earth System Model

Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Research Fellow in Earth System Modelling Research Fellow in Earth System ModellingSalary: Grade 7 (£41,064 – £48,822 p.a. depending on experience)Location: Met Office, Exeter (with scope for hybrid working)Would you like to join a team asses...

🚀 We're hiring! Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Earth System Modelling: develop the UKESM2 model and use it to investigate tipping points.
📍 Grade 7 (£41,064–£48,822) Location: Met Office, Exeter
🌍 Apply today! jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx... Closes: 26 February

Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Scientific Software Engineer in Earth System Modelling Scientific Software Engineer in Earth System ModellingSalary: Grade 7 (£41,064 – £48,822 p.a. depending on experience)Location: Met Office, Exeter (with scope for hybrid working)Are you keen to apply ...

🚀 We're hiring a Scientific Software Engineer!
Join the UKESM team to help develop and optimise the next generation UK Earth System Model for tipping point research.
💼 Grade 7 (£41k–£48k) Location: Met Office, Exeter
🌍 Apply today! jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx... Closes: 26 February.

UKESM

We’ve refreshed our UKESM website with clearer navigation and easier access to key resources. Feel free to explore the new layout and tell us what else you’d like to see👀💻📱 ukesm.ac.uk

These insights aim to inform policy, research & action toward a climate resilient future. Projects:
@esm2025.bsky.social
@optimesm-eu.bsky.social
@tipesm.bsky.social
@climtip.bsky.social
@rescueclimate.bsky.social
@nextgems 🌱 🔗 bit.ly/4pgvktX #ClimateAction #EarthSystemModels

↔️ Research Gaps Where do we need deeper investigation to strengthen climate resilience? 🔗 bit.ly/4pgvktX #ClimateResearch #Innovation #HorizonEU

🌐 Climate Stability & Impacts How resilient are global climate systems? And what do instability trends mean for regions worldwide? 🔗 bit.ly/4pgvktX #ClimateResilience #ClimateImpacts #EarthSystem

📈 Impact of Our Actions Will current strategies actually lead to a peak—and then decline—in global warming? 🔗 bit.ly/4pgvktX #GlobalWarming #ClimateAction #NetZero

🔍 Tracking Progress & Anticipating Risks How do we measure real-world progress on climate goals and spot emerging challenges before they escalate? 🔗 bit.ly/4pgvktX #ClimateRisk #ClimatePolicy #ClimateScience

🌍 Earth System Insights: from our Horizon Projects Briefing 6 European Horizon projects gathered their insights together for an in-depth forum with the European Commission (DG RTD & DG CLIMA). Here’s what they had to say 👇 🔗 bit.ly/4pgvktX #ClimateAction #EarthSystem #HorizonEU

🌐 Climate Stability & Impacts
How resilient are global climate systems? And what do instability trends mean for regions worldwide?
🔗 bit.ly/ESMbrief
#ClimateResilience #ClimateImpacts #EarthSystem

📈 Impact of Our Actions
Will current strategies actually lead to a peak—and then decline—in global warming?
🔗 bit.ly/ESMbrief
#GlobalWarming #ClimateAction #NetZero

🔍 Tracking Progress & Anticipating Risks
How do we measure real-world progress on climate goals and spot emerging challenges before they escalate?
🔗 bit.ly/ESMbrief
#ClimateRisk #ClimatePolicy #ClimateScience

Nature security is shared security.

On 20 Nov, join us at the UK Pavilion to explore how protecting biodiversity—from the Amazon to the UK—strengthens global resilience.
• Stability
• Climate
• Health

Watch the event live here: youtube.com/live/g1L6RB3...

At #COP30 today - Wildfires: Science, Stories, and Strategies for Resilience in Amazonia

UKCEH with Fundacion Avina, Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and University of East Anglia

UK Pavilion or livestream: https://www.youtube.com/live/VNg-QCfYbvQ

Wildfires are becoming a defining climate-related challenge. Their inclusion in the UNFCCC Loss & Damage framework is essential, researchers say.

New in @commsearth.nature.com buff.ly/nNXUyyU

UKCEH co-author Maria Barbosa is at #COP30 next week to discuss #wildfires science 🔥

Climate Research at the Heart of EU Policy: Six Projects Unite to Inform Decision-Making Climate research provides the scientific foundation of the European Union’s climate policies, including the ambitious European Green Deal, which aims to make Europe climate-neutral by 2050. Scienti…

6 EU-funded climate & Earth system modelling projects—@esm2025.bsky.social, @optimesm-eu.bsky.social, @tipesm.bsky.social, @climtip.bsky.social, @rescueclimate.bsky.social & NextGEMS—came together for a clustered science-to-policy meeting to present insights.💬🌐 ukesm.ac.uk/climate-rese...

Severe heatwaves and droughts are making extreme wildfires more frequent and intense worldwide The latest State of Wildfire report is building unequivocal evidence of how climate change is increasing the frequency and severity of extreme wildfires.

Report reveals climate change increased likelihood of Southern California’s wildfires 🔥

The State of Wildfires report, co-led by the Met Office, @ukceh.bsky.social, @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social & @ecmwf.int evidences the link between climate change and wildfire activity.

Read more⬇️

TerraFIRMA & UKESM project member Dr Douglas Kelley introduced the latest State of Wildfires report he co-led🔥🌍

Day 3. GA's last morning: Wrap-up & perspectives with @rolandseferian.bsky.social and others.

4.5 years together. In a little over a month the project ends. Today we celebrate what we built in science and in community.

#ESM2025inToulouse is over.

Back from our vegan lunch — espresso kicks in.

Two rooms, two workshops:
•TCRE- @chrisd-jones.bsky.social @metoffice.gov.uk
•ESM Challenges: Complexity, Resolution & AI - chaired by Colin Jones @universityofleeds.bsky.social with presentations for various ESM2025 researchers.

#ESM2025inToulouse

GA Day2 kicks off!☕☀️
Keynote#3 "RCMIP2-a framework for simple climate modelling in the IPCC 7th assess & beyond"

Why Coordinated Calibration Matters?
➡️It allows us to separate the influence of model structure from calibration choices.
@benmsanderson.bsky.social @cicero.oslo.no
#ESM2025inToulouse

Now onto 2 collaborative workshops for the community:

📈 Improving the assessment of the transient climate response to cumulative CO₂ chaired by @chrisd-jones.bsky.social @uniofreading.bsky.social

📊: Model Selection workshop, chaired by Eleanor O'Rourke @wcrp-cmip.org

#ESM2025inToulouse

Back from lunch at #ESM2025inToulouse!
"The REF is a complete end to end system providing a systematic & rapid performance assess. of the expected models participating in the CMIP Assess. Fast Track, supporting the next IPCC AR7 cycle."
Ranjini Swaminathan @uniofreading.bsky.social @wcrp-cmip.org

The UKESM team is participating in #ESM2025inToulouse and looks forward to the gathering, sharing and discussion.🌐

The UKESM team is participating in ESM2025 and looks forward to the gathering, sharing and discussion.🌐

A rewarding day out helping to maintain hedge guards with @ncas-uk.bsky.social at #GairWood @universityofleeds.bsky.social 🌱🌳 #Conservation #Volunteering

British Antarctic Survey Careers | Greenland Ice/Ocean Modeller Two post-doctoral research positions in ocean and ice sheet modelling:   Greenland Ice/Ocean Modeller and Ice Modeller/Emulation Scientist

The Greenland Ice/Ocean Modeller (supervised by me) will advance the @ukesm.bsky.social's representation of Greenland's meltwater release to the ocean, and study implications for the collapse of the North Atlantic Subpolar Gyre: bas.ciphr-irecruit.com/applicants/v...

YESS, the Young Earth System Scientists community, is an interdisciplinary, international, bottom-up early career researchers (ECR) network in Earth system science, collaborating & exchanging on a range of themes through webinars, workshops, learning groups, etc. Find out more www.yess-community.org

Photograph of bright sun in a clear blue sky with clouds at the bottom. Text reads: 'Met Office NEWS RELEASE 26 August 2025 – This summer will ‘almost certainly’ be warmest on record for the UK.'

Provisional statistics from the Met Office show that summer 2025 will ‘almost certainly’ be the warmest summer on record for the UK.

It would move 2018 off the top spot and relegate 1976 out of the top five warmest summer in a series which dates back to 1884.
👉 www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...

Check out new research papers from TerraFIRMA and UKESM at terrafirma.ac.uk/resources/ 🌐 @terrafirmaclimate.bsky.social @ukesm.bsky.social