Jonathan Wille
@jonathanwille.bsky.social
❄️ Polar meteorologist and climatologist.
Studying #polar #meteorology #climatology with focus on atmospheric rivers, mass balance impacts, and high-res climate modeling.
Post-doc researcher at ETH Zurich.
Studying #polar #meteorology #climatology with focus on atmospheric rivers, mass balance impacts, and high-res climate modeling.
Post-doc researcher at ETH Zurich.
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a century of glaciers melting 🧪🌐
November 3, 2025 at 5:21 PM
a century of glaciers melting 🧪🌐
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So, I hate to be this guy, but as the director of Yale’s new program on attribution science (!?), uh, most of the commentary on Bluesky about Hurricane Melissa and climate change has been… not quite right
October 31, 2025 at 2:19 AM
So, I hate to be this guy, but as the director of Yale’s new program on attribution science (!?), uh, most of the commentary on Bluesky about Hurricane Melissa and climate change has been… not quite right
Latest update from the National Hurricane Center for hurricane Melissa right before it makes landfall in western Jamaica. Winds are 185 mph with a 892 mb pressure making it the third strongest Atlantic hurricane ever by pressure. The destruction that is about to happen is just unimaginable.
October 28, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Latest update from the National Hurricane Center for hurricane Melissa right before it makes landfall in western Jamaica. Winds are 185 mph with a 892 mb pressure making it the third strongest Atlantic hurricane ever by pressure. The destruction that is about to happen is just unimaginable.
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#Melissa is now the strongest #hurricane of the 2025 Atlantic season, and it continues to deepen. Pressure has fallen to 913mb. There’s evidence to suggest it is already even stronger than 160 mph winds. It’s possible that will be adjusted upward soon.
October 27, 2025 at 1:55 PM
#Melissa is now the strongest #hurricane of the 2025 Atlantic season, and it continues to deepen. Pressure has fallen to 913mb. There’s evidence to suggest it is already even stronger than 160 mph winds. It’s possible that will be adjusted upward soon.
Trump says climate change predictions were made by "stupid people". I guess I'm a stupid person who now has a chip on my shoulder to make good climate science and show the real stupid people are the ones in the government who are actively trying to burn the world. www.youtube.com/shorts/hhax2...
Climate change was made up by ‘stupid people’: Trump
YouTube video by CTV News
www.youtube.com
September 24, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Trump says climate change predictions were made by "stupid people". I guess I'm a stupid person who now has a chip on my shoulder to make good climate science and show the real stupid people are the ones in the government who are actively trying to burn the world. www.youtube.com/shorts/hhax2...
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The EPA is attempting to repeal its endangerment finding for GHGs—threatening decades of climate progress.
📢 Register by 12 Aug to testify at the virtual hearings (19–20 Aug): EPA-mobilesource-hearings@epa.gov
🗣️ Speak up. Science must be heard.
#ActOnClimate #AGU
📢 Register by 12 Aug to testify at the virtual hearings (19–20 Aug): EPA-mobilesource-hearings@epa.gov
🗣️ Speak up. Science must be heard.
#ActOnClimate #AGU
August 7, 2025 at 10:45 AM
The EPA is attempting to repeal its endangerment finding for GHGs—threatening decades of climate progress.
📢 Register by 12 Aug to testify at the virtual hearings (19–20 Aug): EPA-mobilesource-hearings@epa.gov
🗣️ Speak up. Science must be heard.
#ActOnClimate #AGU
📢 Register by 12 Aug to testify at the virtual hearings (19–20 Aug): EPA-mobilesource-hearings@epa.gov
🗣️ Speak up. Science must be heard.
#ActOnClimate #AGU
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In case you need a podcast listen for the weekend, we recommend Beyond the Ice from the British Antarctic Survey. Check out the latest episode where Dr. Michelle Maclennan discusses the state of extreme weather over Antarctica and recent ice mass increases open.spotify.com/episode/30Tu...
10: How do we actually *know* Antarctica is melting? | Dr Michelle Maclennan
Beyond the Ice · Episode
open.spotify.com
August 1, 2025 at 12:46 PM
In case you need a podcast listen for the weekend, we recommend Beyond the Ice from the British Antarctic Survey. Check out the latest episode where Dr. Michelle Maclennan discusses the state of extreme weather over Antarctica and recent ice mass increases open.spotify.com/episode/30Tu...
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🚨 If you're interested in working on a coordinated response to the DOE climate report, please enter your info on this google form 🚨
Please RT this so as many people see it as possible.
forms.gle/BL9xUAfRxA...
Please RT this so as many people see it as possible.
forms.gle/BL9xUAfRxA...
DOE climate report response form
We are collecting names to assemble a writing team to respond to the DOE climate working group report. If you'd like to contribute, enter your info below. At this point, there is no guarantee what we'll do (if anything), but we want to keep our options open by collecting names. If you have any further questions, feel free to email me.
We are primarily looking for Ph.D. scientists at universities or government labs in appropriate fields. I realize that this will exclude some qualified people and I apologize, but we felt this was necessary for a variety of reasons.
forms.gle
July 31, 2025 at 6:35 PM
🚨 If you're interested in working on a coordinated response to the DOE climate report, please enter your info on this google form 🚨
Please RT this so as many people see it as possible.
forms.gle/BL9xUAfRxA...
Please RT this so as many people see it as possible.
forms.gle/BL9xUAfRxA...
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Motherfucking wind farms…
July 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Motherfucking wind farms…
A report from the Climate Working Group commissioned by the DOE is the scientific basis for the EPA's proposal to revoke the 2009 Endangerment Finding. This report, written by well-known climate skeptic scientists, is absolutely insulting to read from a science writing perspective. 🧵
July 30, 2025 at 12:23 PM
A report from the Climate Working Group commissioned by the DOE is the scientific basis for the EPA's proposal to revoke the 2009 Endangerment Finding. This report, written by well-known climate skeptic scientists, is absolutely insulting to read from a science writing perspective. 🧵
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🚨 The U.S. oil rig count just suffered its fastest collapse since the pandemic.
From January to July 2025, rigs dropped 13.7%, the steepest 15-week plunge in five years.
This isn’t just about oil, it’s about inflation, jobs, energy security, and the global economy.
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From January to July 2025, rigs dropped 13.7%, the steepest 15-week plunge in five years.
This isn’t just about oil, it’s about inflation, jobs, energy security, and the global economy.
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July 27, 2025 at 10:13 PM
🚨 The U.S. oil rig count just suffered its fastest collapse since the pandemic.
From January to July 2025, rigs dropped 13.7%, the steepest 15-week plunge in five years.
This isn’t just about oil, it’s about inflation, jobs, energy security, and the global economy.
(Save this thread)
From January to July 2025, rigs dropped 13.7%, the steepest 15-week plunge in five years.
This isn’t just about oil, it’s about inflation, jobs, energy security, and the global economy.
(Save this thread)
New paper alert 🚨 Our work on the representation of extreme precipitation events within kilometer-scale Earth system models is published. On a personal note, it's the first paper I've written that doesn't focus on Antarctica! More details below 🧵 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Extreme Precipitation Depiction in Convection‐Permitting Earth System Models Within the nextGEMS Project
Fully coupled convection-permitting Earth System Models improve the depiction of wet/dry precipitation extremes over the Mediterranean region
The explicit resolution of convection helps simulate ...
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
July 15, 2025 at 9:50 AM
New paper alert 🚨 Our work on the representation of extreme precipitation events within kilometer-scale Earth system models is published. On a personal note, it's the first paper I've written that doesn't focus on Antarctica! More details below 🧵 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
After a brutal start to the Alps melt season from an early season heatwave, we'll get a small reprieve with a series of cyclones drawing down cold, moist air from the north. In the highest elevations, there could be widespread accumulation of around 50 cm by Wednesday.
July 7, 2025 at 8:15 AM
After a brutal start to the Alps melt season from an early season heatwave, we'll get a small reprieve with a series of cyclones drawing down cold, moist air from the north. In the highest elevations, there could be widespread accumulation of around 50 cm by Wednesday.
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A large part of the western North Slope of Alaska with official forecast high temps over 90F today and tomorrow. This is borderline unprecedented if it happens. There are no weather stations in those 90F+ forecast areas though. So verification will basically be impossible. @alaskawx.bsky.social
July 3, 2025 at 6:31 PM
A large part of the western North Slope of Alaska with official forecast high temps over 90F today and tomorrow. This is borderline unprecedented if it happens. There are no weather stations in those 90F+ forecast areas though. So verification will basically be impossible. @alaskawx.bsky.social
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Intense melt at high elevation and lack of freezing make juxtaglacial lakes to form as already shown at Mer de Glace near Punta Helbronner!
Here is an other example at 3430 m on Saas Fee Glacier! ❄️🧊🌊
(already existing in 2023, not shown on Swisstopo)
www.linkedin.com/posts/thomas...
Here is an other example at 3430 m on Saas Fee Glacier! ❄️🧊🌊
(already existing in 2023, not shown on Swisstopo)
www.linkedin.com/posts/thomas...
June 29, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Intense melt at high elevation and lack of freezing make juxtaglacial lakes to form as already shown at Mer de Glace near Punta Helbronner!
Here is an other example at 3430 m on Saas Fee Glacier! ❄️🧊🌊
(already existing in 2023, not shown on Swisstopo)
www.linkedin.com/posts/thomas...
Here is an other example at 3430 m on Saas Fee Glacier! ❄️🧊🌊
(already existing in 2023, not shown on Swisstopo)
www.linkedin.com/posts/thomas...
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New paper in ERL! We study the importance of resolution for the representation of climate extremes.
We use a new generation of km-scale models to show that many important details about temperature and precipitation extremes are hidden at CMIP6-like resolutions.
doi.org/10.1088/1748...
We use a new generation of km-scale models to show that many important details about temperature and precipitation extremes are hidden at CMIP6-like resolutions.
doi.org/10.1088/1748...
June 17, 2025 at 10:56 AM
New paper in ERL! We study the importance of resolution for the representation of climate extremes.
We use a new generation of km-scale models to show that many important details about temperature and precipitation extremes are hidden at CMIP6-like resolutions.
doi.org/10.1088/1748...
We use a new generation of km-scale models to show that many important details about temperature and precipitation extremes are hidden at CMIP6-like resolutions.
doi.org/10.1088/1748...
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Our #CopernicusAtmosphere aerosol optical depth forecast initialised on 11 June showed a complex mixture of aerosols over Europe in recent days with smoke transport from Canadian wildfires interspersed with a plume of Saharan dust.
See the latest charts at atmosphere.copernicus.eu/charts/packa...
See the latest charts at atmosphere.copernicus.eu/charts/packa...
June 13, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Our #CopernicusAtmosphere aerosol optical depth forecast initialised on 11 June showed a complex mixture of aerosols over Europe in recent days with smoke transport from Canadian wildfires interspersed with a plume of Saharan dust.
See the latest charts at atmosphere.copernicus.eu/charts/packa...
See the latest charts at atmosphere.copernicus.eu/charts/packa...
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To the scientists who shared their work and kept pressure building against the Trump Admin for 100 straight hours: thank you for your relentlessness.
We owe you a future of climate safety.
We owe you a future of climate safety.
Alarmed by Trump Cuts, Scientists Are Talking Science. For 100 Hours.
www.nytimes.com
June 4, 2025 at 12:44 PM
To the scientists who shared their work and kept pressure building against the Trump Admin for 100 straight hours: thank you for your relentlessness.
We owe you a future of climate safety.
We owe you a future of climate safety.
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Following @jonathanwille.bsky.social 's recent post about an #atmosphericriver / #heatwave in West Antarctica, I did some digging in ERA5 to look at the drivers and impacts of the event. Sharing here for those who might be interested 🌨️🌡️👀
May 30, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Following @jonathanwille.bsky.social 's recent post about an #atmosphericriver / #heatwave in West Antarctica, I did some digging in ERA5 to look at the drivers and impacts of the event. Sharing here for those who might be interested 🌨️🌡️👀
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Yesterday's devastating #glacier collapse erasing the Swiss village of Blatten still leaves me speechless...
The high mountain areas are adapting to ever increasing temperatures. It's time to wake up! When, if not now?
This is not far away but right here...
pic: Pomona/A. Amherd
The high mountain areas are adapting to ever increasing temperatures. It's time to wake up! When, if not now?
This is not far away but right here...
pic: Pomona/A. Amherd
May 29, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Yesterday's devastating #glacier collapse erasing the Swiss village of Blatten still leaves me speechless...
The high mountain areas are adapting to ever increasing temperatures. It's time to wake up! When, if not now?
This is not far away but right here...
pic: Pomona/A. Amherd
The high mountain areas are adapting to ever increasing temperatures. It's time to wake up! When, if not now?
This is not far away but right here...
pic: Pomona/A. Amherd
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New paper shows through a modelling experiment that reduced Antarctic sea ice may cause a positive feedback loop where the atmospheric response drive even further sea ice loss agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Modeling the Impacts of Antarctic Sea Ice Decline: Responses of Atmospheric Dynamics
Increased zonal wind stress over the ocean surface leads to a decline in sea ice and a rise in sea surface temperature
Surface atmospheric changes become more evident during austral winter and sp...
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 26, 2025 at 7:13 AM
New paper shows through a modelling experiment that reduced Antarctic sea ice may cause a positive feedback loop where the atmospheric response drive even further sea ice loss agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
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Here’s how Trump’s war on science is going. NSF funding is at the lowest level in decades. We’ll lose knowledge, generations of scientists, and US competitiveness.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
May 22, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Here’s how Trump’s war on science is going. NSF funding is at the lowest level in decades. We’ll lose knowledge, generations of scientists, and US competitiveness.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Wow: concerted effort by NY governor, Norwegian government, US senators and congressmen, labour groups... results in Trump withdrawing stop work order on Equinor's offshore Empire wind project. 🔌💡
www.equinor.com/news/2025051...
www.equinor.com/news/2025051...
Stop work order lifted, Empire Wind project resumes construction
The stop work order has been lifted for the Empire Wind project, allowing construction activities to resume.
www.equinor.com
May 20, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Wow: concerted effort by NY governor, Norwegian government, US senators and congressmen, labour groups... results in Trump withdrawing stop work order on Equinor's offshore Empire wind project. 🔌💡
www.equinor.com/news/2025051...
www.equinor.com/news/2025051...
West Antarctica has been excessively warm the past month and an upcoming atmospheric river will likely lead to further extreme warmth in the coming days #antarctica #extremeweather 🧵
May 15, 2025 at 8:16 AM
West Antarctica has been excessively warm the past month and an upcoming atmospheric river will likely lead to further extreme warmth in the coming days #antarctica #extremeweather 🧵
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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...
Out today, our new study on the future frequency and precipitation impacts of Antarctic atmospheric rivers:
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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...
www.nature.com
May 14, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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...
Out today, our new study on the future frequency and precipitation impacts of Antarctic atmospheric rivers:
www.nature.com/articles/s43...