Milind Sharma
@gewitterblitz.bsky.social
Deep convective processes - observations and modeling | Ph.D.
Assistant Research Scientist @tamu.bsky.social
Personal website: gewitterblitz.github.io
Assistant Research Scientist @tamu.bsky.social
Personal website: gewitterblitz.github.io
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Oceanographers of the world! There will be an information session for my Life Skills for Young Scientists (LiSYS) mentorship program at OSM 26 in Glasgow, on Thursday, February 26, from 3:45 - 5:15pm.
I will describe the program, and you can meet past participants as well. All are welcome!
I will describe the program, and you can meet past participants as well. All are welcome!
January 31, 2026 at 1:46 AM
Oceanographers of the world! There will be an information session for my Life Skills for Young Scientists (LiSYS) mentorship program at OSM 26 in Glasgow, on Thursday, February 26, from 3:45 - 5:15pm.
I will describe the program, and you can meet past participants as well. All are welcome!
I will describe the program, and you can meet past participants as well. All are welcome!
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I encourage all who are going to AMS this year in Houston to read this excellent AFD from Cameron Batiste at the NWS Houston WFO. Impacts, uncertainties, synoptic setup, etc. Just fantastic: forecast.weather.gov/product.php?... .
National Weather Service
forecast.weather.gov
January 22, 2026 at 5:30 PM
I encourage all who are going to AMS this year in Houston to read this excellent AFD from Cameron Batiste at the NWS Houston WFO. Impacts, uncertainties, synoptic setup, etc. Just fantastic: forecast.weather.gov/product.php?... .
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🚨 🚀 A crude interface I built to expose an archive of College of DuPage GOES imagery since about 15 Apr 2017. The archive is around ~500TB in size over ~2.5 billion JPEG images. Yikes, but here you go.
mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/archive/cods...
Anyways happy for feedback. Not worth the effort?
mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/archive/cods...
Anyways happy for feedback. Not worth the effort?
January 13, 2026 at 10:50 PM
🚨 🚀 A crude interface I built to expose an archive of College of DuPage GOES imagery since about 15 Apr 2017. The archive is around ~500TB in size over ~2.5 billion JPEG images. Yikes, but here you go.
mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/archive/cods...
Anyways happy for feedback. Not worth the effort?
mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/archive/cods...
Anyways happy for feedback. Not worth the effort?
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I'm excited to announce the official Nullschool app is here!
earth.nullschool.net on mobile browsers works fine, but the app is nicer. Full screen display, persistence across sessions, text size that matches device settings. Even landscape works well.
And, like the website: no ads!
Links below ⬇️
earth.nullschool.net on mobile browsers works fine, but the app is nicer. Full screen display, persistence across sessions, text size that matches device settings. Even landscape works well.
And, like the website: no ads!
Links below ⬇️
January 7, 2026 at 3:12 PM
I'm excited to announce the official Nullschool app is here!
earth.nullschool.net on mobile browsers works fine, but the app is nicer. Full screen display, persistence across sessions, text size that matches device settings. Even landscape works well.
And, like the website: no ads!
Links below ⬇️
earth.nullschool.net on mobile browsers works fine, but the app is nicer. Full screen display, persistence across sessions, text size that matches device settings. Even landscape works well.
And, like the website: no ads!
Links below ⬇️
New Publication Alert: A fun paper that came together almost on the fly when I first started working on numerical modeling of aerosol-convection interactions (ACI) is now out in AGU Geophysical Research Letters.
Check out the full paper here: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Check out the full paper here: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
The Importance of an Ensemble Approach for Modeling Aerosol‐Convection Interactions
Random initial temperature perturbations can rival aerosol effects on updrafts, risking misattribution in deterministic simulations For TRACER-like environments, at least 10 ensemble members are ...
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 2, 2026 at 8:17 AM
New Publication Alert: A fun paper that came together almost on the fly when I first started working on numerical modeling of aerosol-convection interactions (ACI) is now out in AGU Geophysical Research Letters.
Check out the full paper here: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Check out the full paper here: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Join our #AMS2026 presidential session featuring public, private, and nonprofit professionals across all career levels in weather and climate.
Hear insights from their career journeys across sectors, including challenges and opportunities along the way.
Learn more: https://bit.ly/4aEGkN8
Hear insights from their career journeys across sectors, including challenges and opportunities along the way.
Learn more: https://bit.ly/4aEGkN8
January 1, 2026 at 9:07 PM
Join our #AMS2026 presidential session featuring public, private, and nonprofit professionals across all career levels in weather and climate.
Hear insights from their career journeys across sectors, including challenges and opportunities along the way.
Learn more: https://bit.ly/4aEGkN8
Hear insights from their career journeys across sectors, including challenges and opportunities along the way.
Learn more: https://bit.ly/4aEGkN8
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Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
December 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
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Awesome turnout in support of @ncar-ucar.bsky.social at #AGU25. Take a look at how many people use our products!
December 18, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Awesome turnout in support of @ncar-ucar.bsky.social at #AGU25. Take a look at how many people use our products!
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Incredible footage of volcanic eruption of a dormant volcano in Ethiopia from a commercial plane.
A sight seen for the first time in recorded history. ⌚
A sight seen for the first time in recorded history. ⌚
November 27, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Incredible footage of volcanic eruption of a dormant volcano in Ethiopia from a commercial plane.
A sight seen for the first time in recorded history. ⌚
A sight seen for the first time in recorded history. ⌚
From Warren Buffett's farewell letter:
November 11, 2025 at 12:47 AM
From Warren Buffett's farewell letter:
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Have you heard? The Geoscience Data Exchange platform is running and ready for community use! Designed to accelerate discovery and collaboration, GDEX ensures that scientific data are accessible and preserved for the research community, increasing discoverability and enabling collaboration.
November 6, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Have you heard? The Geoscience Data Exchange platform is running and ready for community use! Designed to accelerate discovery and collaboration, GDEX ensures that scientific data are accessible and preserved for the research community, increasing discoverability and enabling collaboration.
TIL: There's another field of study, besides Metrology, that’s spelled almost like 'Meteorology.'
October 31, 2025 at 5:17 PM
TIL: There's another field of study, besides Metrology, that’s spelled almost like 'Meteorology.'
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Here's a loop of the 1-minute mesoscale visible imagery of Hurricane Melissa from roughly 18 UTC Oct 24 through 15 UTC Oct 29. These are not remapped, so the image jumps when the meso sector moves, usually around 18 UTC each day.
youtube.com/shorts/fIuAD...
youtube.com/shorts/fIuAD...
Hurricane Melissa - 1 minute visible imagery from 18 UTC Oct 24, 2025 through 15 UTC Oct 29, 2025
YouTube video by UW-AOS UW Madison
youtube.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Here's a loop of the 1-minute mesoscale visible imagery of Hurricane Melissa from roughly 18 UTC Oct 24 through 15 UTC Oct 29. These are not remapped, so the image jumps when the meso sector moves, usually around 18 UTC each day.
youtube.com/shorts/fIuAD...
youtube.com/shorts/fIuAD...
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Calling all ensemble forecast system enthusiasts! The State of Texas is funding development of a new ensemble prediction system (100 members, 2km grid spacing) with an embedded WoFS interface, to be developed at Texas Tech! Passing along 3 open research scientist positions towards that development:
October 27, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Calling all ensemble forecast system enthusiasts! The State of Texas is funding development of a new ensemble prediction system (100 members, 2km grid spacing) with an embedded WoFS interface, to be developed at Texas Tech! Passing along 3 open research scientist positions towards that development:
Absolutely true!
One of the rare pleasures in academia is being asked to review something and finding that it's really rather wonderful.
October 16, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Absolutely true!
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Did you know that @ametsoc.org offers a Substack channel!? Called "Weather with a Twist", it offers short, free, whimsical dispatches about the latest research in meteorology, courtesy of the AMS's education team. #WaterWednesday
🔗https://weathertwist.substack.com/
🔗https://weathertwist.substack.com/
October 8, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Did you know that @ametsoc.org offers a Substack channel!? Called "Weather with a Twist", it offers short, free, whimsical dispatches about the latest research in meteorology, courtesy of the AMS's education team. #WaterWednesday
🔗https://weathertwist.substack.com/
🔗https://weathertwist.substack.com/
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Weather radar people: I’m on the steering committee for a Radar Technology Community Workshop to be held at NCAR in early 2026. We’re trying to nail down dates and topics to attract a good cross section. Please fill out this 5-minute survey and share the link! www.eol.ucar.edu/Radar-Techno...
Radar Technology Community Workshop | Earth Observing LaboratoryRadar Technology Community Workshop | Earth Observing Laboratory
www.eol.ucar.edu
September 21, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Weather radar people: I’m on the steering committee for a Radar Technology Community Workshop to be held at NCAR in early 2026. We’re trying to nail down dates and topics to attract a good cross section. Please fill out this 5-minute survey and share the link! www.eol.ucar.edu/Radar-Techno...
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I am so excited to announce that one of the radar meteorology courses that I developed with @comet-meted.bsky.social is now available! "Dual-Polarization Fundamentals" picks up where "Weather Radar Fundamentals" left off! learn.meted.ucar.edu#/online-cour... (Register on learn.meted.ucar.edu first.)
September 14, 2025 at 5:21 PM
I am so excited to announce that one of the radar meteorology courses that I developed with @comet-meted.bsky.social is now available! "Dual-Polarization Fundamentals" picks up where "Weather Radar Fundamentals" left off! learn.meted.ucar.edu#/online-cour... (Register on learn.meted.ucar.edu first.)
August 28, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Has anyone else noticed an increase in new publications in generalist journals (e.g., Sci Rep, Nature Comms) with declarative titles that state already well-known realities in your specialty discipline?
a man sits at a table with a plate of food and says " i don t love the way you phrased that "
Alt: David from Schitt's Creek saying "I don t love the way you phrased that."
media.tenor.com
August 27, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Has anyone else noticed an increase in new publications in generalist journals (e.g., Sci Rep, Nature Comms) with declarative titles that state already well-known realities in your specialty discipline?
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Finally pushed a full 1.0.0 (not release candidate) to PyPI and conda-forge.
This also means that:
mamba install sharplib
conda install sharplib
Work now (assuming you have conda-forge set as your primary channel).
There is also now a Dask/Xarray/kerchunk example notebook for HRRR data!
This also means that:
mamba install sharplib
conda install sharplib
Work now (assuming you have conda-forge set as your primary channel).
There is also now a Dask/Xarray/kerchunk example notebook for HRRR data!
August 13, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Finally pushed a full 1.0.0 (not release candidate) to PyPI and conda-forge.
This also means that:
mamba install sharplib
conda install sharplib
Work now (assuming you have conda-forge set as your primary channel).
There is also now a Dask/Xarray/kerchunk example notebook for HRRR data!
This also means that:
mamba install sharplib
conda install sharplib
Work now (assuming you have conda-forge set as your primary channel).
There is also now a Dask/Xarray/kerchunk example notebook for HRRR data!
I love papers that are well written and link to the open datasets they use, so I can follow the methods and reproduce the figures. #reproduciblescience
August 9, 2025 at 10:36 PM
I love papers that are well written and link to the open datasets they use, so I can follow the methods and reproduce the figures. #reproduciblescience
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Congratulations to Richard Thompson on receiving the 2025 AMS SLS STAC award! Rich is the Director of Forecast Operations at the Storm Prediction Center in Norman, OK. He received the award for conducting exceptional applied research to advance severe thunderstorm and tornado forecasting.
August 1, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Congratulations to Richard Thompson on receiving the 2025 AMS SLS STAC award! Rich is the Director of Forecast Operations at the Storm Prediction Center in Norman, OK. He received the award for conducting exceptional applied research to advance severe thunderstorm and tornado forecasting.
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Liftoff! The NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar mission has launched from Satish Dhawan Space Centre. #NISAR will scan the entire globe twice every 12 days to measure changes in Earth’s ecosystems, cryosphere, and land surface.
“It’s orbiting magic.” —Alex Gardner, NASAJPL
eos.org/articles/tra...
“It’s orbiting magic.” —Alex Gardner, NASAJPL
eos.org/articles/tra...
July 30, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Liftoff! The NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar mission has launched from Satish Dhawan Space Centre. #NISAR will scan the entire globe twice every 12 days to measure changes in Earth’s ecosystems, cryosphere, and land surface.
“It’s orbiting magic.” —Alex Gardner, NASAJPL
eos.org/articles/tra...
“It’s orbiting magic.” —Alex Gardner, NASAJPL
eos.org/articles/tra...