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The UK's Earth system model provides robust science knowledge in support of UK & international climate actions.
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UK Earth System Model @ukesm.bsky.social · Nov 15
Hello bluesky! We'll be posting updates on the UK Earth system model developments, how we are using it, papers and how we collaborate with EU and international partners. If you have any questions, I'll try to field them😅
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Nature security is shared security.

On 20 Nov, join us at the UK Pavilion to explore how protecting biodiversity—from the Amazon to the UK—strengthens global resilience.
• Stability
• Climate
• Health

Watch the event live here: youtube.com/live/g1L6RB3...
November 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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At #COP30 today - Wildfires: Science, Stories, and Strategies for Resilience in Amazonia

UKCEH with Fundacion Avina, Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and University of East Anglia

UK Pavilion or livestream: https://www.youtube.com/live/VNg-QCfYbvQ
November 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Wildfires are becoming a defining climate-related challenge. Their inclusion in the UNFCCC Loss & Damage framework is essential, researchers say.

New in @commsearth.nature.com buff.ly/nNXUyyU

UKCEH co-author Maria Barbosa is at #COP30 next week to discuss #wildfires science 🔥
Recognition of Loss & Damage from wildfires is key for climate justice - Communications Earth & Environment
Wildfires are becoming one of the defining climate-related crises of the twenty-first century. We argue that their inclusion in the Loss & Damage framework of the United Nations Framework Convention…
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November 17, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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6 EU-funded climate & Earth system modelling projects—@esm2025.bsky.social, @optimesm-eu.bsky.social, @tipesm.bsky.social, @climtip.bsky.social, @rescueclimate.bsky.social & NextGEMS—came together for a clustered science-to-policy meeting to present insights.💬🌐 ukesm.ac.uk/climate-rese...
Climate Research at the Heart of EU Policy: Six Projects Unite to Inform Decision-Making
Climate research provides the scientific foundation of the European Union’s climate policies, including the ambitious European Green Deal, which aims to make Europe climate-neutral by 2050. Scienti…
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October 28, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Report reveals climate change increased likelihood of Southern California’s wildfires 🔥

The State of Wildfires report, co-led by the Met Office, @ukceh.bsky.social, @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social & @ecmwf.int evidences the link between climate change and wildfire activity.

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Severe heatwaves and droughts are making extreme wildfires more frequent and intense worldwide
The latest State of Wildfire report is building unequivocal evidence of how climate change is increasing the frequency and severity of extreme wildfires.
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October 16, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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TerraFIRMA & UKESM project member Dr Douglas Kelley introduced the latest State of Wildfires report he co-led🔥🌍
ukceh.bsky.social UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · Oct 16
A team from UKCEH, @metoffice.gov.uk, @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social and @ecmwf.int used satellite observations & advanced modelling to identify and investigate the causes of wildfires from Mar24-Feb25 fire season and the role played by climate & land use change.

🎥 Co-lead Dr Doug Kelley

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October 20, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Day 3. GA's last morning: Wrap-up & perspectives with @rolandseferian.bsky.social and others.

4.5 years together. In a little over a month the project ends. Today we celebrate what we built in science and in community.

#ESM2025inToulouse is over.
October 9, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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Back from our vegan lunch — espresso kicks in.

Two rooms, two workshops:
•TCRE- @chrisd-jones.bsky.social @metoffice.gov.uk
•ESM Challenges: Complexity, Resolution & AI - chaired by Colin Jones @universityofleeds.bsky.social with presentations for various ESM2025 researchers.

#ESM2025inToulouse
October 8, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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GA Day2 kicks off!☕☀️
Keynote#3 "RCMIP2-a framework for simple climate modelling in the IPCC 7th assess & beyond"

Why Coordinated Calibration Matters?
➡️It allows us to separate the influence of model structure from calibration choices.
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#ESM2025inToulouse
October 8, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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Now onto 2 collaborative workshops for the community:

📈 Improving the assessment of the transient climate response to cumulative CO₂ chaired by @chrisd-jones.bsky.social @uniofreading.bsky.social

📊: Model Selection workshop, chaired by Eleanor O'Rourke @wcrp-cmip.org

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October 7, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Back from lunch at #ESM2025inToulouse!
"The REF is a complete end to end system providing a systematic & rapid performance assess. of the expected models participating in the CMIP Assess. Fast Track, supporting the next IPCC AR7 cycle."
Ranjini Swaminathan @uniofreading.bsky.social @wcrp-cmip.org
October 7, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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The UKESM team is participating in #ESM2025inToulouse and looks forward to the gathering, sharing and discussion.🌐
esm2025.bsky.social ESM2025 @esm2025.bsky.social · Oct 7
👋Bonjour from Météo-France Campus, Toulouse!
We're starting our Final GA! Great to reunite with colleagues from across Europe to share what we've achieved during the 4.5 years of ESM2025. 🌐
Welcome by @smlmrn.bsky.social. Thanks to #CNRM @meteofrance.com @cnrs.fr

#ESM2025inToulouse kicks off! 🥳
October 7, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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The UKESM team is participating in ESM2025 and looks forward to the gathering, sharing and discussion.🌐
esm2025.bsky.social ESM2025 @esm2025.bsky.social · Oct 7
👋Bonjour from Météo-France Campus, Toulouse!
We're starting our Final GA! Great to reunite with colleagues from across Europe to share what we've achieved during the 4.5 years of ESM2025. 🌐
Welcome by @smlmrn.bsky.social. Thanks to #CNRM @meteofrance.com @cnrs.fr

#ESM2025inToulouse kicks off! 🥳
October 7, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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A rewarding day out helping to maintain hedge guards with @ncas-uk.bsky.social at #GairWood @universityofleeds.bsky.social 🌱🌳 #Conservation #Volunteering
October 1, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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The Greenland Ice/Ocean Modeller (supervised by me) will advance the @ukesm.bsky.social's representation of Greenland's meltwater release to the ocean, and study implications for the collapse of the North Atlantic Subpolar Gyre: bas.ciphr-irecruit.com/applicants/v...
British Antarctic Survey Careers | Greenland Ice/Ocean Modeller
Two post-doctoral research positions in ocean and ice sheet modelling:   Greenland Ice/Ocean Modeller and Ice Modeller/Emulation Scientist
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September 18, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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YESS, the Young Earth System Scientists community, is an interdisciplinary, international, bottom-up early career researchers (ECR) network in Earth system science, collaborating & exchanging on a range of themes through webinars, workshops, learning groups, etc. Find out more www.yess-community.org
Young Earth System Scientists – community
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September 8, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Provisional statistics from the Met Office show that summer 2025 will ‘almost certainly’ be the warmest summer on record for the UK.

It would move 2018 off the top spot and relegate 1976 out of the top five warmest summer in a series which dates back to 1884.
👉 www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...
Photograph of bright sun in a clear blue sky with clouds at the bottom. Text reads: 'Met Office NEWS RELEASE 26 August 2025 – This summer will ‘almost certainly’ be warmest on record for the UK.'
August 26, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Check out new research papers from TerraFIRMA and UKESM at terrafirma.ac.uk/resources/ 🌐 @terrafirmaclimate.bsky.social @ukesm.bsky.social
August 13, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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New modelling highlights how the Amazon's rich biodiversity evolved & the growing threat posed by human activities🌳Study uses new method to integrate archaeological & geoscientific data into climate models, reconstructing past human-environment interactions—featured in a German Archaeology magazine.
July 16, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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🌍21st June is #ShowYourStripes day. The bar chart shows the temperature change in the UK up to 2024 compared to the average of 1961-2010 showyourstripes.info
2024 was the warmest year on record. 📣Take action! www.un.org/en/actnow/te...
June 20, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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New paper shows the pace of global warming has roughly doubled since the 1980s.

Led by @piersforster.bsky.social, over 60 scientists have worked to update "Indicators of Global Climate Change" - including PIK researchers @wflamb.bsky.social and Jan Minx.
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Pace of warming has doubled since 1980s
19.06.2025 – The rate of global heating in the period 2012-2024 has roughly doubled from the 1980s according to the latest peer-reviewed update of “Indicators of Global Climate Change” published today...
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June 19, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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The marine heatwave in the seas around the UK and Ireland has soared this week, with some areas now 4°C warmer than normal, impacting marine life, fisheries & swimming activities🌊 Scientists predict 2025 will be one of the hottest years🌡️ @noc.ac.uk @metoffice.bsky.social
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Marine heatwave: UK sea temperatures soar after exceptionally warm Spring
Sea temperatures in some areas off the UK and Ireland are 4C above average.
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May 22, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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"UKESM1 simulates all these steps, with advanced representation of atmospheric chemistry, physical climate processes, and the global carbon cycle... The important findings in this study would not have been possible without use of such an advanced Earth system model..." – Prof. Colin Jones
May 22, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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In an era of AI, why does explainable machine learning still matter for #wildfire prediction? ECMWF scientist Joe McNorton takes us inside the Probability of Fire (PoF) system to uncover the drivers of fire activity🔥 terrafirma.ac.uk/integrating-... @ukesm.bsky.social
Integrating Land Surface Modelling and Machine Learning for Wildfire Prediction
The Probability of Fire (PoF) model plays a vital role in wildfire attribution.
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May 2, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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We're hiring!

Join our team in Reading as a post-doctoral scientist.

Work on the PROMOTE project to develop innovative methods to represent and evaluate climate tipping points in a leading Earth system model.

Apply by 20 May 📆

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Job Opportunity: Research Scientist - NCAS
We are looking for a Research Scientist to join our team at the University of Reading.
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April 28, 2025 at 10:47 AM