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Wouter Dorigo
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Just migrated from X for known reasons.

Environmental science 59%
Geography 19%

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🧑‍🏫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...

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An allen Ecken, Enden und Höhen unseres Landes fehlt es in diesem Winter an #Schnee - die Schneebilanz ist österreichweit horrend.
#Wien verzeichnet überhaupt einen Negativrekord: Mit in Summe 1 cm geht der Winter 2024/25 als der schneeärmster der Wiener Messgeschichte zu Ende.
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

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🚨📄 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
Frontiers | Analyzing satellite and airborne Ka-band passive microwave observations over land for temperature and vegetation monitoring
doi.org

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🌲🍃 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...

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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)

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...
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"
NOAA firings hit the birthplace of weather and climate forecasting
Dismissed researchers were improving severe weather predictions
www.science.org

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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.

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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

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📣🎓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
streaming-video-live
livestream.kuleuven.be

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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.
An allen Ecken, Enden und Höhen unseres Landes fehlt es in diesem Winter an #Schnee - die Schneebilanz ist österreichweit horrend.
#Wien verzeichnet überhaupt einen Negativrekord: Mit in Summe 1 cm geht der Winter 2024/25 als der schneeärmster der Wiener Messgeschichte zu Ende.

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

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✔ 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...
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.
climate.esa.int

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/...
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
www.theguardian.com

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'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...

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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.

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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.

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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...
Summer student job in climate and environmental remote sensing
Open position
www.tuwien.at

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.

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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 😉
NEW #JOB
The team behind @esaclimate has an open vacancy for a Climate Application Scientist - ideally with knowledge of the #land surface, #terrestrial #carbon & #water cycles?

🗺️Based at the European Space Agency's ECSAT facility, Harwell, UK
📅Deadline Feb 20

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