Scott Osprey
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Scott Osprey
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Expat kiwi interested in global teleconnections; Co-lead of @WCRPclimate.bsky.social QBOi and Explaining & Predicting Earth System Change WG2 | University of Oxford @oxfordphysics.bsky.social & National Centre for Atmospheric Science @ncas-uk.bsky.social
I may be cynical but will people remember a bust forecast of rain or no rain?
October 22, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Gutted: clearly missed a Nobel nomination after having editor remove word “unprecedented” from paper title in 2016.
October 8, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Whoa!
September 27, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Presumably the haricot beans are cooked before they are covered in tomato sauce…
September 27, 2025 at 12:02 PM
They do say that it would attract 1.5M people annually and would all but pay for itself after one years operation. Could be worse though, it could be a Disney theme park.
September 2, 2025 at 10:54 PM
For an analogy similar to the quantum well, one can think of a laser cavity. Light of a particular wavelength is amplified (via stimulated emission) in the laser tube. The ends of the tube are mirrors reflecting the light into the tube building power. But light leaks through the mirrors nonetheless.
June 21, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Rossby waves reflect & evanesce when they travel in the atmosphere meeting winds they cannot pass through (like the polar vortex after it breaks down). This general characteristic of waves is called total internal reflection and waves can leak through if the barrier is thin.
June 21, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Can you give some advice of other places to go for similar information?
June 14, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Doesn’t the ARIA programme require an act of parliament to be discontinued within 10 years of operation? That all being said, what evidence would the funding agencies require for any SAI research funding to be discontinued?
May 9, 2025 at 3:45 PM
How long door to door?
May 3, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Is there any merit in GE research funding being setup up more like a science debate, with for and against funding streams. The traditional science funding approach risks sleepwalking into eventual deployment.
May 3, 2025 at 7:20 AM