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Atmospheric scientist. I focus on hydroclimate dynamics and the intersection of climate and weather. Work at https://www.cgd.ucar.edu/sections/ccr/research, and https://www.cgd.ucar.edu/projects/artmip. Views my own.

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The Greenlandification of Antarctica - Nature Geoscience Climate and ice sheet processes in Antarctica increasingly reflect those observed earlier in Greenland. Applying process insights from Greenland can improve projections of future Antarctic ice and climate behaviour.

A nice status report and the figure is really cool! #Antarctica

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

11.10.2025 19:30 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A government shutdown and the current FY26 proposed federal budget will have lasting impacts on scientific agencies, researchers, universities and students. Learn what’s at stake and how to respond on 23 Oct at 2 p.m. ET.

Register today. πŸ‘‰ lite.spr.ly/6004zxTM

03.10.2025 19:27 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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39th Conference on Climate Variability and Change The 106th AMS Annual Meeting will take place from 25 to 26 January, 2026 in Houston, Texas.

Call for Abstracts! #AtmosphericRivers at @ametsoc.org

annual.ametsoc.org/2026/program...

04.08.2025 16:59 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Right then...

A quick review of the DOE's new 'critical review' of climate science. Whether it's worth a formal community response - I'm still not sure, but here's my first thoughts

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30.07.2025 14:32 β€” πŸ‘ 192    πŸ” 111    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 23
Atmospheric Rivers: Processes, Impacts, Observations, and Uncertainties Atmospheric rivers (ARs) comprise filaments of intense water vapor transport in the lower troposphere that are essential to the global hydrological cycle. ARs operate within a broader dynamical enviro...

Going to the Fall @agu.org meeting this year?

Interested in #AtmosphericRivers?

Submit to our session! Deadline July 30st.

A032: Atmospheric Rivers: Processes, Impacts, Observations, and Uncertainties.

agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/pr...

15.07.2025 22:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Rising atmospheric moisture escalates the future impact of atmospheric rivers in the Antarctic climate system - Communications Earth & Environment Antarctic atmospheric rivers are projected to double in frequency and cause 2.5 times more precipitation by 2066–2100 due to rising atmospheric moisture, according to large ensemble climate simulation...

In today’s climate, #atmosphericrivers play a major role in bringing snowfall to #Antarctica. Have you ever wondered how that might change in the future?

Out today, our new study on the future frequency and precipitation impacts of Antarctic atmospheric rivers:
www.nature.com/articles/s43...

14.05.2025 15:45 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
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We kicked off the morning with energy and purpose, ready to bring Earth and space science to the Hill.

Christine (@catswx.bsky.social), an atmospheric scientist, joined others in highlighting the importance of federal support for climate research.

27.03.2025 21:22 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Such an energizing day standing up for science… Huge shout out to the AGU Policy team for making it happen!

27.03.2025 23:53 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Earth, wind and fire: Are Boulder’s extreme downslope winds changing? Abstract A Denver newspaper in 2016 reported that a new Colorado all-time-record peak wind gust of 148 mph was recorded on 18 February 2016, on Monarch Pass in the Colorado Rockies near 11,000’ above ...

This detective story describes the search for causes of the apparent decrease in strength of extreme winds at NSF NCAR and their impacts in the Boulder area. #Climate

A super fun project and an amazing team of scientists, forecasters, students, and even a civil engineer!

doi.org/10.1175/BAMS...

20.03.2025 16:29 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

More info in this latest article, although to be clear what has been terminated is the IPCC Working Group 3 technical support unit and fed travel to next weeks’s meeting where the report chapter outlines are to be approved, after which authors will be solicited.

22.02.2025 16:17 β€” πŸ‘ 300    πŸ” 116    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 10
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Assessing the Global Climate in January 2025 January temperature marks a new global milestone. Temperatures were above average over much of the globe, but much below average over the United States, Greenland, and far eastern Russia.

Even though the U.S. was a bit chilly this January, it was the anomaly compared to most of the globe. Check out the impartial data: www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/global-.... #Climate

14.02.2025 15:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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12 Good News Stories About Climate Change The best positive news stories about the environment you may not have heard about.

Don’t we all need some good news? #Climate
www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/cli...

12.02.2025 03:09 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A great collaborative effort and proud to be part of the team! #Antarctica #AtmosphericRivers

11.02.2025 19:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Lots of adaptation $$ will be needed soon, and there won’t be enough for everything: β€œthe cost of maintaining roads in just the US will increase by $100 billion a year by 2050 (in 2018 dollars), or roughly half of what state and local governments spent on roads in 2021.”

30.01.2025 14:41 β€” πŸ‘ 63    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2
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Atmospheric River Detection Under Changing Seasonality and Mean‐State Climate: ARTMIP Tier 2 Paleoclimate Experiments Atmospheric river detection tools are applied to climate model simulations incorporating insolation and greenhouse gas changes AR frequency changes due to orbital forcing and associated changing ...

Uncertainty in #AtmopshericRiver tracking matters. In ARTMIP's (AR tracking method intercomparison project) new paper, we test mean state versus seasonality. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1029/2024...

www.cgd.ucar.edu/projects/art...

21.01.2025 18:47 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Changes in store for atmospheric rivers | NCAR & UCAR News

Thanks to @ncarucar.bsky.social and David Hosansky for writing a press release on our latest paper the explores #AtmosphericRivers impacts on the upper ocean!
news.ucar.edu/133001/chang...

17.12.2024 18:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#AtmosphericRivers at @eurogeosciences.bsky.social (Vienna and online) this year! Abstract deadline Jan 15th...

04.12.2024 20:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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On the ground #COP29, negotiations mostly surround how the world will pay for adaptation, mitigation, and loss&damage from climate change. Sometimes it is hard to see the forest through the trees but progress marches slowly forward. πŸ§ͺ

20.11.2024 15:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The UN climate change conference #COP29 is in week 2. Our changing climate requires increased capacity for folding in the latest science to handling things like increasingly more destructive weather events. #climatecrisis #earlywarningsystems #earthsystempredictability

19.11.2024 01:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Atmospheric rivers and the upper ocean Using an eddy-resolving ocean coupled to a high resolution atmosphere, we find that atmospheric rivers significantly influence upper ocean processes, and the nature of these impacts change as the cli...

#AtmosphericRivers influence the upper ocean. With climate change, we potentially see increased impacts on coastal communities

go.nature.com/3UjtBGS

15.11.2024 19:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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IARC is a great conference for those interested in #AtmosphericRiver…Abstract deadline March 10

cw3e.ucsd.edu/iarc2024/

29.02.2024 03:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Keeling curve initial funders were... the oil gas industry?! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

17.02.2024 00:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Crazy amounts of water and wind coming out the #AtmosphericRiver impacting California! If you are interested in looking at real time water vapor imagery, check out the CMISS website tropic.ssec.wisc.edu/real-time/mt...

05.02.2024 21:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Collaborative science at its finest! 2 papers on the Extraordinary "Heat" Wave over Antarctica March 2022. Honored to be part of this work.
#Antarctica
#AtmosphericRivers

Part I: Observations and Meteorological Drivers lnkd.in/gy96zqPv

Part II: Impacts on the Antarctic Ice Sheet lnkd.in/gHtzqYT3

28.01.2024 23:10 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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