🌍Big news for Earth observation! Delighted that the @eumetsat.int Council has approved a new co-operation agreement with NCEO!

🚀This partnership brings frontier research in atmosphere, marine & hydrology to the heart of operational Earth Observation.

🔗 Read more: tinyurl.com/2k9e93ry

This is AI2ES, my AI institute. No way around it other than to say this is really awful. We are doing so many amazing things! We want to keep doing amazing things but without this level of funding, we will not be able to do so.

Congratulations team BIOMASS! These first images were unveiled at #LPS25. A spectacular example of the satellite's capability and the potential for understanding our planet's forests in greater detail than ever before. 🌍

Many congratulations to our PhD students @science-sanjee.bsky.social and @lrisley.bsky.social on being awarded these fellowships.

DARC's latest blog is out. Read Amos Lawless's blog about why the ocean plays an important role in weather forecasting and how statistical relationships between the ocean and the atmosphere should be accounted for in coupled data assimilation.
research.reading.ac.uk/met-darc/202...

🌍 We're looking for a Non-Exec Director to join our Management Board!

This part-time, independent role provides a rare opportunity to contribute to the strategic direction & long-term success of UKs leading EO research centre🛰️

Find out more>>https://tinyurl.com/2mypp6ac

#NCEO #Leadership

Really looking forward to the panel discussion with
Prof Ros Cornforth (Walker Centre, Uni of Reading)
Prof Sir Brian Hoskins (Uni of Reading & Imperial College London)
Dr Ben Wilson (Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund) taking place @ Corpus Christi College, Oxford at 10.30 am tomorrow (1/4)

Applications are open for the NCEO/DARC Training Course on Data Assimilation & Machine Learning!

Learn how DA integrates models and observations to tackle environmental challenges. Two stages available:

▪ Foundation 9-10 June 25
▪ Advanced 11-13 June 25

More info: tinyurl.com/5bya85tr

⏰ Two 4-year funded PhD projects available at the University of Reading with @nceoscience.bsky.social via EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Mathematics for our Future Climate. Apply by 9 March!
1 👉 bit.ly/NCEOPhD1
2 👉 bit.ly/NCEOPhD2
#Mathematics #Meteorology #PhD #PhDScholarship #PhDPosition

Data assimilation in sea ice models is challenging! Read Sukun Cheng's new blog on the assimilation of sea ice thickness and concentration observations.
research.reading.ac.uk/met-darc/202...

New study published today shows the rate of ocean warming has quadrupled since the 1980s🌊

NCEO Prof @chrismerchant.bsky.social at the Uni of Reading, lead author highlights why 2023 and early 2024 saw unprecedented ocean temperatures, rising at 0.27°C per decade📈

www.nceo.ac.uk/news-media/o...

We've put together a little explainer on Storm Éowyn, its development, where it stands compared to other (in)famous storms and on whether future explosive cyclones could become more "sting-jetty" and diabatically driven
theconversation.com/why-meteorol...
@ncas-uk.bsky.social

The intensity & structure of #StormÉowyn were certainly conducive to sting-jet descent. This satellite image would be consistent with it, as would be the timing and location of the record gust. However, we can't yet say whether the cold conveyor belt also played a role there 1/2

New blog: postdoc Rishabh Bhatt writing about his trip to the awesome #AMS2025 @ametsoc.bsky.social
research.reading.ac.uk/met-darc/202...

Inside #COP29 by Thea Stevens & Juan Garcia Valencia who attended the Azerbaijan #climate meeting on behalf of the University of Reading
in November: socialmetwork.blog/2025/01/18/i...