Tim Woollings
@timwoollings.bsky.social
Still trying to understand jet streams and things.
Into books and outdoors things.
Works in Oxford Physics and Pembroke College.
Into books and outdoors things.
Works in Oxford Physics and Pembroke College.
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Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics (AOPP) Open Day 2025
Online, 2 Dec, 1:30-4pm
Meet academics plus drop-in sessions with ample opportunity for you to ask questions.
Fill in the form via https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/study/postgraduates/dphil-atmospheric-oceanic-and-planetary-physics
Online, 2 Dec, 1:30-4pm
Meet academics plus drop-in sessions with ample opportunity for you to ask questions.
Fill in the form via https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/study/postgraduates/dphil-atmospheric-oceanic-and-planetary-physics
November 11, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics (AOPP) Open Day 2025
Online, 2 Dec, 1:30-4pm
Meet academics plus drop-in sessions with ample opportunity for you to ask questions.
Fill in the form via https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/study/postgraduates/dphil-atmospheric-oceanic-and-planetary-physics
Online, 2 Dec, 1:30-4pm
Meet academics plus drop-in sessions with ample opportunity for you to ask questions.
Fill in the form via https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/study/postgraduates/dphil-atmospheric-oceanic-and-planetary-physics
New Postdoc opportunity with us in AOPP, Oxford!
🌍 Postdoc research opportunity: Predictability and Climate Dynamics - University of Oxford, UK
📚 The position sits within the Predictability of Weather and Climate and Climate Dynamics research groups in Oxford’s Department of Physics.
@timwoollings.bsky.social
@oxfordphysics.bsky.social
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📚 The position sits within the Predictability of Weather and Climate and Climate Dynamics research groups in Oxford’s Department of Physics.
@timwoollings.bsky.social
@oxfordphysics.bsky.social
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November 10, 2025 at 12:32 PM
New Postdoc opportunity with us in AOPP, Oxford!
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We’re excited to be a part of Hot Poets🔥Ignite a brand new climate & poetry education campaign featuring Michael Rosen - watch the poem, buy the children's poetry book, or book hot poets at your school at hotpoets.org (1/2)
youtu.be/KquXACs9GSQ?...
#climateaction #education #hotpoets
youtu.be/KquXACs9GSQ?...
#climateaction #education #hotpoets
Overheard In Space by Michael Rosen I Hot Poets Ignite
YouTube video by Kids’ Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen
youtu.be
November 5, 2025 at 3:57 PM
We’re excited to be a part of Hot Poets🔥Ignite a brand new climate & poetry education campaign featuring Michael Rosen - watch the poem, buy the children's poetry book, or book hot poets at your school at hotpoets.org (1/2)
youtu.be/KquXACs9GSQ?...
#climateaction #education #hotpoets
youtu.be/KquXACs9GSQ?...
#climateaction #education #hotpoets
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Are you interested in seasonal forecasts and how they have advanced over the past two decades?
Chris O’Reilly (Univ. of Reading) led a new paper on exactly this: rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Chris O’Reilly (Univ. of Reading) led a new paper on exactly this: rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Evaluating seasonal forecast improvements over the past two decades
We have analysed the performance of operational seasonal forecasting models since their inception. Clear improvements are measured through the different model eras, particularly in the Tropics. For t....
rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 30, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Are you interested in seasonal forecasts and how they have advanced over the past two decades?
Chris O’Reilly (Univ. of Reading) led a new paper on exactly this: rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Chris O’Reilly (Univ. of Reading) led a new paper on exactly this: rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Two postdoc jobs available on our Arctic Butterflies project! (Not actual butterflies - basically Arctic dynamics and predictability - the butterfly effect in the Arctic...)
Oxford job: tinyurl.com/yc6h4b35
Reading job: tinyurl.com/ypn75jh2
Please help spread the word!
Oxford job: tinyurl.com/yc6h4b35
Reading job: tinyurl.com/ypn75jh2
Please help spread the word!
Job Details
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August 14, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Two postdoc jobs available on our Arctic Butterflies project! (Not actual butterflies - basically Arctic dynamics and predictability - the butterfly effect in the Arctic...)
Oxford job: tinyurl.com/yc6h4b35
Reading job: tinyurl.com/ypn75jh2
Please help spread the word!
Oxford job: tinyurl.com/yc6h4b35
Reading job: tinyurl.com/ypn75jh2
Please help spread the word!
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Oxford Climate Research Network are recruiting!
Join OCRN as the network coordinator (0.6FTE) and help us raise the impact, effectiveness, and profile of climate research at Oxford University.
Deadline: midday 8 Sept 2025
@oxuniearthsci.bsky.social
More details: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
Join OCRN as the network coordinator (0.6FTE) and help us raise the impact, effectiveness, and profile of climate research at Oxford University.
Deadline: midday 8 Sept 2025
@oxuniearthsci.bsky.social
More details: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
August 6, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Oxford Climate Research Network are recruiting!
Join OCRN as the network coordinator (0.6FTE) and help us raise the impact, effectiveness, and profile of climate research at Oxford University.
Deadline: midday 8 Sept 2025
@oxuniearthsci.bsky.social
More details: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
Join OCRN as the network coordinator (0.6FTE) and help us raise the impact, effectiveness, and profile of climate research at Oxford University.
Deadline: midday 8 Sept 2025
@oxuniearthsci.bsky.social
More details: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
Job alert: we are looking for a postdoc to join the Atmospheric Dynamics group in Oxford to study Arctic atmospheric dynamics. The focus is on energy transfers between scales and implications for predictability. More details here: tinyurl.com/yc6h4b35
Job Details
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July 29, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Job alert: we are looking for a postdoc to join the Atmospheric Dynamics group in Oxford to study Arctic atmospheric dynamics. The focus is on energy transfers between scales and implications for predictability. More details here: tinyurl.com/yc6h4b35
Great Climate Justice event last night at the #RHRNCimate Summit @morethanadodo.bsky.social @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social late night at the museum. Well done everyone, including @climateoxford.bsky.social @geologisetheatre.bsky.social!
June 7, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Great Climate Justice event last night at the #RHRNCimate Summit @morethanadodo.bsky.social @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social late night at the museum. Well done everyone, including @climateoxford.bsky.social @geologisetheatre.bsky.social!
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Today's climate events in the #RHRNClimate Summit local programme. #MutiraoGlobalCOP30
🗓️ Fri 6 Jun PART 1/3
➡️ All day - Global Youth Climate Summit
➡️ Until 4pm - Climate and Law Conference
➡️ 10-2pm & 2-4pm - Environmental photography exhibit
➡️ 11am - Call for Code
🗓️ Fri 6 Jun PART 1/3
➡️ All day - Global Youth Climate Summit
➡️ Until 4pm - Climate and Law Conference
➡️ 10-2pm & 2-4pm - Environmental photography exhibit
➡️ 11am - Call for Code
June 6, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Today's climate events in the #RHRNClimate Summit local programme. #MutiraoGlobalCOP30
🗓️ Fri 6 Jun PART 1/3
➡️ All day - Global Youth Climate Summit
➡️ Until 4pm - Climate and Law Conference
➡️ 10-2pm & 2-4pm - Environmental photography exhibit
➡️ 11am - Call for Code
🗓️ Fri 6 Jun PART 1/3
➡️ All day - Global Youth Climate Summit
➡️ Until 4pm - Climate and Law Conference
➡️ 10-2pm & 2-4pm - Environmental photography exhibit
➡️ 11am - Call for Code
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One of our motivations for writing this was a prevalent misconception that blocking systems are becoming more common.
They aren’t. They’re projected to become less frequent.
However, the hot and dry spring is consistent with climate change.
@ncas-uk.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social
They aren’t. They’re projected to become less frequent.
However, the hot and dry spring is consistent with climate change.
@ncas-uk.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social
How the weather got ‘stuck’ over the UK – and produced an unusually dry and warm spring
Article in The Conversation from me and @mattpattclimate.bsky.social, discussing spring 2025, blocking and climate change.
theconversation.com/how-the-weat...
Article in The Conversation from me and @mattpattclimate.bsky.social, discussing spring 2025, blocking and climate change.
theconversation.com/how-the-weat...
How the weather got ‘stuck’ over the UK – and produced an unusually dry and warm spring
‘April showers’ were few and far between in 2025.
theconversation.com
May 12, 2025 at 6:18 PM
One of our motivations for writing this was a prevalent misconception that blocking systems are becoming more common.
They aren’t. They’re projected to become less frequent.
However, the hot and dry spring is consistent with climate change.
@ncas-uk.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social
They aren’t. They’re projected to become less frequent.
However, the hot and dry spring is consistent with climate change.
@ncas-uk.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social
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The ERC Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral programme is now open . marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/news/msca-op... , closing 10 Sept. (but the Oxford Physics internal deadline is 16 June). A great opportunity for folks from outside the UK to come do a two-year postdoc at Oxford.
MSCA opens €404.3 million call for Postdoctoral Fellowships
Postdoctoral Fellowships offer researchers holding a PhD the opportunity to acquire new skills through advanced training and international, interdisciplinary, and inter-sectoral mobility.
marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu
May 9, 2025 at 10:04 AM
The ERC Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral programme is now open . marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/news/msca-op... , closing 10 Sept. (but the Oxford Physics internal deadline is 16 June). A great opportunity for folks from outside the UK to come do a two-year postdoc at Oxford.
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Do you have research interests in sub-seasonal prediction, high resolution modelling or data assimilation of the Earth system?
Open junior and senior fellowship opportunities in partnership with University of Reading, ECMWF, NCAS and UK Met Office:
research.reading.ac.uk/earth-system...
Open junior and senior fellowship opportunities in partnership with University of Reading, ECMWF, NCAS and UK Met Office:
research.reading.ac.uk/earth-system...
May 8, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Do you have research interests in sub-seasonal prediction, high resolution modelling or data assimilation of the Earth system?
Open junior and senior fellowship opportunities in partnership with University of Reading, ECMWF, NCAS and UK Met Office:
research.reading.ac.uk/earth-system...
Open junior and senior fellowship opportunities in partnership with University of Reading, ECMWF, NCAS and UK Met Office:
research.reading.ac.uk/earth-system...
Thanks to Tiffany and Isla for leading this review paper - and the workshop last year which inspired it!
And thanks to @erichfischer.bsky.social for a great thread summarising it 👇
And thanks to @erichfischer.bsky.social for a great thread summarising it 👇
Can climate models reproduce observed trends?
The answer can be challenging. Our new review paper in Science Advances led by Isla Simpson and Tiffany Shaw @drshaw.bsky.social discusses challenges and ways forward in confronting climate models and observations.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The answer can be challenging. Our new review paper in Science Advances led by Isla Simpson and Tiffany Shaw @drshaw.bsky.social discusses challenges and ways forward in confronting climate models and observations.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
March 13, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Thanks to Tiffany and Isla for leading this review paper - and the workshop last year which inspired it!
And thanks to @erichfischer.bsky.social for a great thread summarising it 👇
And thanks to @erichfischer.bsky.social for a great thread summarising it 👇
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10th UK Climate Dynamics Workshop 2025
7–9 July, Met Office, Exeter
Abstract deadline 16 May
www.rmets.org/event/10th-u...
7–9 July, Met Office, Exeter
Abstract deadline 16 May
www.rmets.org/event/10th-u...
10th UK Climate Dynamics Workshop 2025
UK Climate Dynamics Workshops are annual in-person events aiming to promote collaboration amongst the UK academic sector and the Met Office.
www.rmets.org
March 12, 2025 at 6:14 PM
10th UK Climate Dynamics Workshop 2025
7–9 July, Met Office, Exeter
Abstract deadline 16 May
www.rmets.org/event/10th-u...
7–9 July, Met Office, Exeter
Abstract deadline 16 May
www.rmets.org/event/10th-u...
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#NotInOurSky : Our opinion piece with Mike Mann on the extreme dangers of ARIA's solar geoengineering project, which is reviewing proposals including field experiments right now: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The UK’s gamble on solar geoengineering is like using aspirin for cancer | Raymond Pierrehumbert and Michael Mann
Injecting pollutants into the atmosphere to reflect the sun would be extremely dangerous, but the UK is funding field trials
www.theguardian.com
March 12, 2025 at 5:29 PM
#NotInOurSky : Our opinion piece with Mike Mann on the extreme dangers of ARIA's solar geoengineering project, which is reviewing proposals including field experiments right now: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
New paper on European blocking just out:
rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Quite surprising - we looked at how blocking depends on physical parameters in a model and found very few sensitivities - only to convection in summer and to drag in winter.
@cfmcswede.bsky.social
rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Quite surprising - we looked at how blocking depends on physical parameters in a model and found very few sensitivities - only to convection in summer and to drag in winter.
@cfmcswede.bsky.social
Sensitivity of European blocking to physical parameters in a large ensemble climate model experiment
Atmospheric blocking over Europe is found to have surprisingly limited sensitivity to variations of physical parameters in a climate model. Some sensitivity of winter blocking is shown here to nsigma...
rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
March 6, 2025 at 8:49 AM
New paper on European blocking just out:
rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Quite surprising - we looked at how blocking depends on physical parameters in a model and found very few sensitivities - only to convection in summer and to drag in winter.
@cfmcswede.bsky.social
rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Quite surprising - we looked at how blocking depends on physical parameters in a model and found very few sensitivities - only to convection in summer and to drag in winter.
@cfmcswede.bsky.social
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Wonderful to welcome Prof. Karen Heywood to deliver the annual @ox.ac.uk - @metoffice.bsky.social Houghton Lecture at @oxfordphysics.bsky.social this afternoon, a great choice!
March 4, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Wonderful to welcome Prof. Karen Heywood to deliver the annual @ox.ac.uk - @metoffice.bsky.social Houghton Lecture at @oxfordphysics.bsky.social this afternoon, a great choice!
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New paper day!
Increasingly Seasonal Jet Stream Raises Risk of Co-Occurring Flooding and Extreme Wind in Great Britain
rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
The final piece in the CGFI and friends compound wind flood risk puzzle, led by John Hillier :-)
Increasingly Seasonal Jet Stream Raises Risk of Co-Occurring Flooding and Extreme Wind in Great Britain
rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
The final piece in the CGFI and friends compound wind flood risk puzzle, led by John Hillier :-)
February 25, 2025 at 6:44 PM
New paper day!
Increasingly Seasonal Jet Stream Raises Risk of Co-Occurring Flooding and Extreme Wind in Great Britain
rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
The final piece in the CGFI and friends compound wind flood risk puzzle, led by John Hillier :-)
Increasingly Seasonal Jet Stream Raises Risk of Co-Occurring Flooding and Extreme Wind in Great Britain
rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
The final piece in the CGFI and friends compound wind flood risk puzzle, led by John Hillier :-)
Still time - abstract deadline for BACO2025 now extended to 25 Feb!
Abstract submission now open for IUGG BACO-25 meeting in Busan, Korea in July 2025: www.baco-25.org/new/
Please consider our joint session JMP10: Ocean-Atmosphere Mechanisms of Climate Variability, Change and Predictability
Please consider our joint session JMP10: Ocean-Atmosphere Mechanisms of Climate Variability, Change and Predictability
Busan IAMAS-IACS-IAPSO Joint Assembly 2025
Busan IAMAS-IACS-IAPSO Joint Assembly 2025, BACO-25
www.baco-25.org
February 19, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Still time - abstract deadline for BACO2025 now extended to 25 Feb!
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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
theconversation.com/why-meteorol...
@ncas-uk.bsky.social
Why meteorologists are comparing Storm Éowyn to a bomb
Éowyn’s wind speeds are comparable with the most infamous storms of recent years and decades.
theconversation.com
January 24, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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
theconversation.com/why-meteorol...
@ncas-uk.bsky.social
Great news - well done Libby!
Incredibly honored to have been awarded the #PECASE.
On this #AMS2025 week, President Joe Biden awarded Colorado State University Professor Elizabeth Barnes with the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
Congratulations @eabarnes.bsky.social 🎉
engr.source.colostate.edu/white-house-...
Congratulations @eabarnes.bsky.social 🎉
engr.source.colostate.edu/white-house-...
January 18, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Great news - well done Libby!
2 weeks left to apply for a NERC-funded PhD place at Oxford!
Two weeks to go until the application deadline for ILESLA. If you or anyone you know would benefit from full funding to carry out a PhD in Life and/or Environmental Science please visit/refer to our website page iles.web.ox.ac.uk/how-apply where you can see open day videos and get full guidance.
How to Apply and Funding
iles.web.ox.ac.uk
January 16, 2025 at 3:52 PM
2 weeks left to apply for a NERC-funded PhD place at Oxford!
Abstract deadline for the storm tracks workshop has been extended to 20 January - please tell your friends!
Will be a great meeting in a wonderful place.
Will be a great meeting in a wonderful place.
We have another great Stormtracks workshop coming up: Rosendal, Norway (near Bergen), 15-20 June 2025.
Abstract submissions deadline is approaching fast: 15 January 2025.
More information:
stormtracks2025.w.uib.no
Please consider coming, and also help spread the word!
Abstract submissions deadline is approaching fast: 15 January 2025.
More information:
stormtracks2025.w.uib.no
Please consider coming, and also help spread the word!
Stormtracks 2025 Workshop
skjemaker.app.uib.no
January 15, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Abstract deadline for the storm tracks workshop has been extended to 20 January - please tell your friends!
Will be a great meeting in a wonderful place.
Will be a great meeting in a wonderful place.
We have another great Stormtracks workshop coming up: Rosendal, Norway (near Bergen), 15-20 June 2025.
Abstract submissions deadline is approaching fast: 15 January 2025.
More information:
stormtracks2025.w.uib.no
Please consider coming, and also help spread the word!
Abstract submissions deadline is approaching fast: 15 January 2025.
More information:
stormtracks2025.w.uib.no
Please consider coming, and also help spread the word!
Stormtracks 2025 Workshop
skjemaker.app.uib.no
January 7, 2025 at 9:08 AM
We have another great Stormtracks workshop coming up: Rosendal, Norway (near Bergen), 15-20 June 2025.
Abstract submissions deadline is approaching fast: 15 January 2025.
More information:
stormtracks2025.w.uib.no
Please consider coming, and also help spread the word!
Abstract submissions deadline is approaching fast: 15 January 2025.
More information:
stormtracks2025.w.uib.no
Please consider coming, and also help spread the word!
New climate science faculty post going in the great Earth Sciences dept here at Oxford. Details below...
Faculty job alert!! Come join the team @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social
We are recruiting an Associate Professor of Climate Science with a Tutorial Fellowship @ www.st-hughs.ox.ac.uk
Application deadline 7th Feb. 2025
Details here: tinyurl.com/yc3axenr
Please Quote. DM/email me for more information.
We are recruiting an Associate Professor of Climate Science with a Tutorial Fellowship @ www.st-hughs.ox.ac.uk
Application deadline 7th Feb. 2025
Details here: tinyurl.com/yc3axenr
Please Quote. DM/email me for more information.
Job Details
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December 11, 2024 at 8:23 AM
New climate science faculty post going in the great Earth Sciences dept here at Oxford. Details below...