Tess Wei-Ping Jacobson
tessweiping.bsky.social
Tess Wei-Ping Jacobson
@tessweiping.bsky.social
postdoc @ NASA working on hydroclimate and drought 🌬️ previously @ columbia & princeton ❤ she/they
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hi bluesky~ my name is tess, and i'm a climate scientist studying drought, fire, and climate variability and change! i recently defended my PhD on the climate dynamics that drive forest fire in the Western US at @lamont.columbia.edu and started as an NPP fellow at NASA GISS. excited to be here ❤
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The Billion Dollar Weather and Climate Disaster dataset is back and now at @climatecentral.org!

Through the first half of 2025, there were 14 separate billion-dollar weather and climate disasters across the United States, costing $101.4 billion. 1/2
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October 22, 2025 at 2:21 PM
⚠️new(-ish) paper in Journal of Climate⚠️ i evaluated CMIP6 models' Pacific decadal SST variability and teleconnections... big takeaway is that models under-simulate temporal PDO/IPO variability on decadal timescales, likely affecting precip trends in the Southwest
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October 2, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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this can't be good right?
September 30, 2025 at 6:41 PM
hi bluesky~ my name is tess, and i'm a climate scientist studying drought, fire, and climate variability and change! i recently defended my PhD on the climate dynamics that drive forest fire in the Western US at @lamont.columbia.edu and started as an NPP fellow at NASA GISS. excited to be here ❤
August 27, 2025 at 10:19 PM