Tim Andrews

The Carbon Brief Interview: UK Met Office chief executive Penny Endersby  - Carbon Brief Prof Penny Endersby has been chief executive of the UK Met Office since December 2018.

How are we equipping people for the current and future climate?

Our Chief Executive @pennyend.bsky.social has spoken to
@carbonbrief.org about climate science, tackling misinformation and AI.

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Looks promising 👍

Climate predictions made 20 years ago compared to the world that actually happened.

What's that? Climate predictions, you say? Okay!

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Dr Ben Booth appointed to Met Office Academic Partnership post The School of Computer Science is delighted to welcome Dr Ben Booth as part of the prestigious Met Office Academic Partnership (MOAP) at Leeds.

Fantastic to welcome Dr Ben Booth to @universityofleeds.bsky.social School of Computer Science: the 5th of 5 new Met Office Academic Partnership joint positions.
ML is transforming science. Ben's appointment will better link atmos & computer science & deliver impact
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Abstract deadline is tomorrow (13th Aug) for the CMIP Community Workshop in Japan March 2026.

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Submissions for in person or virtual presentation welcome. Picked up out some fun sessions below 👇

Some sessions that ought to be fun & interesting:

🔷 ID4 RFMIP: Exploring radiative Forcing in models and observations to understand climate change

🔷 ID5 CERESMIP: Confronting models with observed changes in the Earth’s energy imbalance

🔷 ID15 CFMIP: Clouds, circulation and climate sensitivity

Anfield ✊🔴 #LFC

Quick trip home to the #LakeDistrict 👌🏼

The online and open access version of these papers can be found here:

link.springer.com/collections/...

Got a call to visit the work post room as there was a parcel for me… (first time in 10+years!)

It was a book, sent to contributing authors I presume, of papers that came out of an ISSI workshop in 2022.

It’s easy to forget that journals often still have physical copies… a joy to flick through.

CMIP Community Workshop 2026 - Coupled Model Intercomparison Project The CMIP Community Workshop 2026 will bring together a growing, and increasingly diverse, community of Earth system scientists, partners, and stakeholders. It

We (@tim-andrews.bsky.social, Ryan Kramer and I) are leading a session around understanding radiative forcing in models at the CMIP Community Workshop in Kyoto, Japan, next March. Abstract submissions open until 13 August:

wcrp-cmip.org/event/cmip20...
Session ID #4

YouTube video by Liverpool FC Our lad from Portugal. Forever | Diogo Jota

“… oh, his name is Diogo..” 💔

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Fantastic to have spent two days at Leeds discussing physical climate science with new and old colleagues. Looking forward to the opportunities ahead @earthandenvleeds.bsky.social.

And it’s great to be back where it all began 20 odd years ago as a student, but now on the other side of the fence…

I think there is some automated diagnostic effort now. Fairly sure Gregory plots are included in ESMValTool for cmip6 and for cmip7 it’s in the Rapid Evaluation Framework…

@mzelinka.bsky.social and I are being replaced by bots

Yep

help.ceda.ac.uk/article/4424...

I should clarify our physical model HadGEM will be. It might not be true for our earth system submission to CMIP7 e.g UKESM.

One CMIP iteration at a time. CMIP6 we solved the Dec 1st start date annoyance. CMIP7 (partly) the 360 day calendar.

Slowly but surely…. What do you want for CMIP8?

I should add a clarification that this might not be true for earth system submission to CMIP7 e.g UKESM. But the physical model HadGEM has moved to Gregorian.

Slowly but surely….

You’ll be pleased to hear that our next model for CMIP7 submission will use a Gregorian calendar…

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Observed trend in Earth energy imbalance may provide a constraint for low climate sensitivity models Climate forcings by greenhouse gases and aerosols cause an imbalance at the top of the atmosphere between the net incoming solar radiation and outgoing longwave radiation from Earth. This Earth energy...

Happy to share our paper in ‪@science.org‬ 'Observed trend in Earth energy imbalance may provide a constraint for low climate sensitivity models' | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Almost as bad as his Covid estimates

Looks a good read:

The Sea Surface Temperature Pattern Effect on Outgoing Longwave Radiation: The Role of Large-Scale Convective Aggregation

agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Some sessions that ought to be fun & interesting:

🔷 ID4 RFMIP: Exploring radiative Forcing in models and observations to understand climate change

🔷 ID5 CERESMIP: Confronting models with observed changes in the Earth’s energy imbalance

🔷 ID15 CFMIP: Clouds, circulation and climate sensitivity

The CMIP Community Workshop 2026 will be held in Kyoto, Japan from 9-13th March 2026. The call for abstracts for CMIP26 is now open! Find out more at wcrp-cmip.org/cmip26-call-...

The CMIP Community Workshop 2026 will be held in Kyoto, Japan from 9-13th March 2026. The call for side sessions for CMIP26 is now open! Find out more at wcrp-cmip.org/cmip26-side-...

Global climate predictions show temperatures expected to remain at or near record levels in coming five years The latest prediction of global climate [issued today, Wednesday 28 May 2025] suggests the average global temperature is likely to continue to reach record or near-record levels in the coming five yea...

The Global Annual to Decadal Climate Update published today by Met Office and the WMO shows that global average temperature exceeded 1.5°C above the 1850-1900 average last year for the first time

bit.ly/43CHLGJ

I've got a Wren in my garden today too

Time series showing growing Earth energy imbalance (greater heating) this century

Earth's energy imbalance needs to decline to stabilise global temperatures but it is growing

The doubling of the rate of global heating in recent decades has surprised the scientific community so needs to be better understood yet our capability to measure Earth's energy imbalance is at risk: doi.org/10.1029/2024...

Or "two-model model with/without ε" if we're at that level. I agree "εBM" would be nice!

Speaking of which, that is probably the most confusing name we have, i.e. "ocean heat uptake efficiency" versus "efficacy of ocean heat uptake". Many have sailed into those rocks...

I think we just say "the two-layer model". That is usually sufficiently from context. But sometimes we insert "two-layer ^energy balance^ model" if required.