Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #climatology, aggregated by home.social.
Exploring my climate shift, I realize now that it'd be enough to utterly transform Utah into a snowy waterworld; why resist that thought? Embrace it. Accentuate it!...Oooh...
Read more at my #blog: https://www.adamasnemesis.com/2026/10/11/deseret-reborn-in-water/
This post's featured image is Ivan Aivazovsky's "Chaos".
#worldbuilding #scifi #sciencefiction #climatefiction #climate #climatology
Map nerds, this one is for you. The week in mystery cities, Kolkata to Manchester: 740 games, 83% solved, all seven on the card. Somewhere, this was last week's weather.
https://weatherdle.org #Weatherdle #Geography #DailyPuzzle #Climatology
A severe 63 percent decline in the chinstrap penguin population on Zavodovski Island, triggered by climate-induced shifts in the availability of their primary food source, Antarctic krill.
#MarineBiology #Ecology #Climatology #ConservationBiology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/10/mb10082601.html
Yesterday's answer was Kolkata, India, solved by 69% of players. This week has a before and an after. The highs end higher; check the intervening days for the part an average leaves out. Give it a try with the October 5 puzzle.
https://weatherdle.org #Weatherdle #Geography #Climatology #DailyPuzzle
This week's highs offer little drama. Follow a second variable before deciding that every day tells the same story. Come play October 3's Weatherdle.
https://weatherdle.org #Weatherdle #Geography #DailyPuzzle #Climatology
Yesterday's Weatherdle was San Diego, United States. The tell: a steady 17° to 28° week — from a city in hot steppe country. A new mystery city is live for October 3 — come play today's puzzle:
https://weatherdle.org #Weatherdle #Geography #DailyPuzzle #Climatology
Recent research demonstrates that soil temperatures across Alaska are rising rapidly and at considerable depths, with the fastest and most severe warming occurring within high-latitude continuous permafrost regions.
#SoilScience #Climatology #EnvironmentalScience #ClimateChange #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/10/agri10012601.html
Mild, changeable, never far from the next shower — ocean-tempered weather. That was Quito, Ecuador. A new mystery city is live for October 1 — come play today's puzzle:
https://weatherdle.org #Weatherdle #Geography #Climatology #DailyPuzzle
The largest high-to-low gap sits on day 4. Follow the nights as closely as the afternoons. Come play September 29's Weatherdle.
https://weatherdle.org #Weatherdle #Geography #DailyPuzzle #Climatology
Yesterday's Weatherdle was Madrid, Spain. The tell: big day-night temperature swings + desert-dry air — from a city with Mediterranean summers. A new mystery city is live for September 29 — come play today's puzzle:
https://weatherdle.org #Weatherdle #Geography #DailyPuzzle #Climatology
The highs stay within a narrow band this week. Compare the lows next: a steady top line does not describe the whole picture. Come play September 27's Weatherdle.
https://weatherdle.org #Weatherdle #Geography #DailyPuzzle #Climatology
A week of real weather, one answer. The week in mystery cities, Perth to Nuuk — all seven on the card. 723 games, 76% solved. A new city is live for September 27.
https://weatherdle.org #Weatherdle #Geography #DailyPuzzle #Climatology
No real summer at all — tundra cold with a brief, cool thaw. That was Nuuk, Greenland. A new mystery city is live for September 27 — come play today's puzzle:
https://weatherdle.org #Weatherdle #Geography #DailyPuzzle #Climatology
I am excited to share that RasterScope is finally on the Mac App Store.
A truly native macOS app for meteorologists, climatologists and environmental researchers to quickly inspect raster data such as NetCDF, grib, hdf5, etc.
We use it to quickly analyse the outputs of air quality dispersion models and the meteorological input from WRF and other models.
Check it out at https://rasterscope.simularia.it
#NetCDF #GRIB #meteorology #climatology #environment #airquality
che.hypotheses.org/1979
Composition, Correlation, Causation: A Critical Glimpse into CLIWOC and Historical Climatology
The rain has a centre of gravity: day 4 holds about 33% of the week's total. Timing is another clue. Come play September 25's Weatherdle.
https://weatherdle.org #Weatherdle #Geography #Climatology #DailyPuzzle
There is no big swing in the daily highs. That makes the other rows worth a closer look; quiet weather still carries clues. Come play September 23's Weatherdle.
https://weatherdle.org #Weatherdle #Geography #DailyPuzzle #Climatology
Steppe heat — long dry spells broken by brief, hard rain. That was Marrakech, Morocco. A new mystery city is live for September 23 — come play today's puzzle:
https://weatherdle.org #Weatherdle #Geography #DailyPuzzle #Climatology
Extreme variations in ocean temperatures, driven by climate change, exert a more significant and complex influence on the population dynamics of the black-browed albatross (Thalassarche melanophris) than simple increases in the mean global temperature.
#PopulationBiology #EvolutionaryBiology #Ecology #Climatology #MarineBiology #Oceanography #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/09/ebio09222601.html
One day carries about 77% of the rain: day 1. Read the sequence before calling it a wet week. Come play September 21's Weatherdle.
https://weatherdle.org #Weatherdle #Geography #Climatology #DailyPuzzle
Hot, dry summers and mild wet winters — classic Mediterranean warmth. That was Perth, Australia; the most common wrong guess was 3,300 km away. A new mystery city is live for September 21 — come play today's puzzle:
https://weatherdle.org #Weatherdle #Geography #Climatology #DailyPuzzle
https://www.europesays.com/ie/697965/ A Cloudy Climate Mystery Over Antarctica Has Scientists Rethinking Their Models #Antarctica #AtmosphericScience #ClimateChange #ClimateScience #Climatology #Éire #IE #Ireland #Science
Smoke from agricultural fires in Africa brightens marine clouds, but the same weather patterns that transport the smoke also thin and reduce cloud cover, offsetting the smoke's cooling effect.
#AtmosphericScience #Climatology #EnvironmentalScience #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/09/as09192601.html
Compare the highs with the lows: their biggest daily gap is on day 6. A daytime temperature is only half the clue. Come play September 19's Weatherdle.
https://weatherdle.org #Weatherdle #Geography #DailyPuzzle #Climatology
Yesterday's Weatherdle was Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. The tell: nights that never cooled off + a steady 23° to 34° week — from a city in the tropical savanna belt. A new mystery city is live for September 19 — come play today's puzzle:
https://weatherdle.org #Weatherdle #Geography #DailyPuzzle #Climatology
This week's highs offer little drama. Follow a second variable before deciding that every day tells the same story. Come play September 17's Weatherdle.
https://weatherdle.org #Weatherdle #Geography #Climatology #DailyPuzzle
Heavy monsoon bursts against year-round heat — a wet season that means it. That was Phuket City, Thailand. A new mystery city is live for September 17 — come play today's puzzle:
https://weatherdle.org #Weatherdle #Geography #Climatology #DailyPuzzle
The total volume of desert dust circulating within Earth's atmosphere has decreased by approximately ten percent between 2003 and 2023.
#AtmosphericScience #Climatology #EarthScience #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/09/as09162601.html
The carbon footprint of milk production measures the environmental impact, specifically carbon emissions, generated during the creation and delivery of dairy products.
#AnimalScience #EnvironmentalScience #AgriculturalScience #Climatology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/09/env09162602.html
A comprehensive synthesis of satellite data reveals that the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets lost a combined 11,309 billion metric tons of ice between 1979 and 2023.
#EarthScience #PhysicalGeography #Climatology #Glaciology #Oceanography #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/09/es09162601.html
Growing degree-day (Climatology 🌍)
Growing degree days, also called growing degree units, are a heuristic tool in phenology. GDD are a measure of heat accumulation used by horticulturists, gardeners, and farmers to predict plant and animal development rates such as the date that a flower will bloom, an insect will emerge from dormancy, or a crop will reach ma...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growing_degree-day
#GrowingDegreeDay #Seasons #Climatology #PestControl #Horticulture #Agrometeorology
Researchers have developed an empirical tool that derives the human "fingerprint" of global warming directly from surface temperature observations, allowing for the clear attribution of regional climate changes to human activity rather than just natural variability.
#Climatology #Meteorology #EnvironmentalScience #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/09/as09122602.html
Recent high-resolution research reveals that the central north Amazon is experiencing a rapid and previously unrecognized increase in extreme climate events, specifically extreme temperatures and water stress, driven by global climate change.
#AtmosphericScience #Climatology #ClimateChange #Environmental #Ecology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/09/as09122601.html
The El Niño-Southern Oscillation is the planet's most consequential mode of interannual climate variability, functioning as a coupled ocean-atmosphere cycle that alternates between warming (El Niño) and cooling (La Niña) phases. Driven by anthropogenic global warming, this historically natural cycle is fundamentally restructuring planetary atmospheric circulation.
#Climatology #AtmosphericScience #Oceanography #MarineBiology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2025/10/wi10122501.html
S-DEIM is a model-free data assimilation method designed to reconstruct high-resolution global sea surface temperature (SST) fields from scarce observational data.
#Oceanography #Climatology #Mathematics #ComputerScience #ComputationalScience #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/09/es09082602.html
Nuclear winter (Climatology 🌍)
Nuclear winter is a severe and prolonged global climatic cooling effect that is hypothesized to occur after widespread urban firestorms following a large-scale nuclear war. The hypothesis is based on the fact that such fires can inject soot into the stratosphere, where it can block some direct sunlight from reaching the surface of the Ea...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_winter
#NuclearWinter #Winter #CarlSagan #Climatology #ClimateForcing #NuclearWarfare
Anthropogenic climate change is disproportionately exposing children to dangerous levels of humid heat, a trend that will escalate under projected global warming scenarios.
#Climatology #EnvironmentalScience #PublicHealth #Pediatrics #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/08/as08272601.html
A machine-learning algorithm developed by MIT engineers that generates realistic worst-case scenarios for extreme events without requiring historical data of past extreme events.
#ComputationalScience #Engineering #Data Science #Climatology (as applied in the study) #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/08/eng08242601.html
Simultaneous and severe water scarcity across multiple major agricultural regions significantly drives up the global market price of wheat. This price fluctuation is highly sensitive to the geographic extent of drought during critical crop growth phases, rather than just gradual climate-induced yield declines.
#Climatology #Agronomy #CropModeling #AgriculturalEconomics #AgriculturalScience #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/08/as08242601.html
A recent brief period of net ice mass gain in Antarctica was driven by a temporary anomaly in tropical ocean temperatures rather than a long-term reversal of climate-driven ice loss.
#EarthSciences #AtmosphericScience #Climatology #Glaciology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/08/es08192601.html
Bankfull discharge is the maximum amount of water a river channel can hold before it spills onto its floodplain, a critical threshold for accurate flood modeling.
#Hydrology #Climatology #EnvironmentalEngineering #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/08/eng08182601.html
Spatiotemporal Distribution, Climatic Factors, And Seasonal Precipitation Patterns Characterizing 66 Years Of Widespread Shallow Landslide Events In Piedmont (Northwestern Italy)
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https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2026.1884300 <-- shared paper
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“Widespread shallow landslide events constitute one of the primary drivers of recurrent societal and economic losses in mountain regions. Although the influence of climate variability on landslide frequency and magnitude has been widely recognized, long-term, event-level analyses linking spatiotemporal landslide patterns to precipitation climatology at the regional scale remain scarce. This study presents a statistical analysis of 128 widespread shallow landslide events recorded in Piedmont, northwestern Italy, over the 66-year period 1960–2025, cross-referenced against the regional precipitation climatology. Events were characterized by season, primary physiographic unit, provincial coverage, and an ordinal magnitude index (scale 1–7) encoding combined spatial extent and estimated landslide count. Results indicate that no statistically significant monotonic trend in event frequency was detected over the study period (mean rate: 1.97 events yr⁻1); however, a moderate positive correlation was established between event magnitude and the number of provinces affected (R2 = 0.51, p < 0.00), validating the magnitude index as a proxy for spatial footprint. Mean event magnitude reached its highest value in the 2010s (3.71), while all five events of magnitude ≥ 6 occurred in autumn. The summer fraction of the catalogue increased markedly, from 6% in the 1960s to 31% in the 2000s and 25% in the 2020s, concurrent with stable or declining summer mean precipitation totals, consistent with Clausius–Clapeyron amplification of convective intensity under documented regional warming. Cross-analysis with regional records identifies three tiers of rainfall–landslide coupling: a stationary direct seasonal coupling; a non-stationary, strengthening intensity-mediated summer coupling; and a structural susceptibility-mediated spatial decoupling whereby the driest provinces generate the highest landslide occurrence frequencies due to the lower triggering thresholds characteristic of Tertiary Piedmont Basin sedimentary environments. A post-hoc assessment of the triggering thresholds used for regional shallow landslide early warning system demonstrates superior detection performance for high-magnitude autumn events (hit rate up to 89% for the 2000–2025 sub-period) and identifies sub-daily convective accumulation windows in summer as the primary domain requiring threshold recalibration…”
#massmovement #landslide #engineeringgeology #Italy #Piedmont #NorthernItaly #weather #rainfall #precipitation #climate #risk #hazard #corrleation #relationship #earlywarningsystems #damage #loss #community #infrastructure #mountain #spatiotemporal #mapping #spatialanalysis #statistics #geostatistics #climatology #regional #scale #weatherpatterns #physiography #geomorphology #water #hydrology #hydrogeomorphology #geology #soils
The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is an ocean current system that functions as a planetary heat valve, controlling the Earth's energy budget and regulating global temperatures.
#Paleoclimatology #Oceanography #Climatology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/08/as08172603.html
A hybrid forecasting method that combines artificial intelligence with traditional physics-based climate models to efficiently and accurately predict the probability of extreme, once-in-a-millennium weather events, such as short-duration heat waves.
#AtmosphericScience #Climatology #ComputationalScience #DataScience #ArtificialIntelligence #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/08/as08172602.html
The Labrador Sea acts as a crucial "lung" for the deep North Atlantic, mixing oxygen-rich surface waters with deeper currents to sustain deep-sea ecosystems.
#Oceanography #MarineBiology #Climatology #EarthSciences #AtmosphericSciences #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/08/es08172601.html
Life goes on on Snowball Earth, but beyond that, the cryogenic regime might be more forgiving on the surface biosphere than our own world...
Read more at my #blog: https://www.adamasnemesis.com/2026/08/14/ice-forgives-some-thoughts-on-the-extended-habitable-zone/
This post's featured image is a shot of some frost on the door, taken by me.
#climate #alienplanet #climatology #habitability #planetaryhabitability #astrobiology #habitablezone #science #iceplanet
https://www.europesays.com/ie/635794/ Melting Sea Ice Could Be Changing the Clouds Above the Arctic #ClimateChange #Climatology #clouds #Éire #Environment #IceMelt #IE #Ireland #Science #UniversityOfBirmingham
Europe drought threatens energy, shipping and growth
An aerial view shows a former eel fishing boat covered in dried mud among on low water among…
#Economy #BreakingNews:Economy #business #businessnews #Climate #climatechange #Climatology #Droughts #EconomyofEU #EconomyoftheEU #Environment #EU #EUeconomy #Europe #germany #hungary #naturaldisasters #romania #Serbia #Weather
https://www.europesays.com/3184953/
https://www.europesays.com/3184953/ Europe drought threatens energy, shipping and growth #BreakingNews:Economy #business #BusinessNews #Climate #ClimateChange #Climatology #Droughts #Economy #EconomyOfEU #EconomyOfTheEU #Environment #EU #EUEconomy #Europe #germany #hungary #NaturalDisasters #romania #Serbia #Weather
Katabatic winds? Twin suns? Even georeactors. All familiar ingredients, but combine them in one planet, and you have one truly alien world...
Read more at my #blog: https://www.adamasnemesis.com/2026/08/06/of-georeactors-katabatics-twin-suns-and-climatology/
This post's featured image is "Ripples in the Sky", captured in Iowa by me (hey, pressure waves figure, so why not?).
#scifi #sciencefiction #worldbuilding #geology #climatology #climate #alienplanet #planet #planetology #atmospheres #oceans
Europe drought threatens energy, shipping and growth
An aerial view shows a former eel fishing boat covered in dried mud among on low water among…
#NewsBeep #News #Economy #AU #Australia #BreakingNews:Economy #Business #businessnews #Climate #Climatechange #Climatology #Droughts #Environment #EU #Germany #hungary #Naturaldisasters #Romania #Serbia #weather
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/844249/
Europe drought threatens energy, shipping and growth
An aerial view shows a former eel fishing boat covered in dried mud among on low water among…
#NewsBeep #News #Economy #BreakingNews:Economy #Business #businessnews #CA #Canada #Climate #climatechange #Climatology #Droughts #Environment #EU #Germany #hungary #Naturaldisasters #Romania #Serbia #Weather
https://www.newsbeep.com/ca/846816/
Europe drought threatens energy, shipping and growth
An aerial view shows a former eel fishing boat covered in dried mud among on low water among…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Economy #BreakingNews:Economy #Business #businessnews #Climate #climatechange #Climatology #Droughts #Environment #eu #germany #Hungary #Naturaldisasters #Romania #Serbia #weather
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/803367/
Window of opportunity (Climatology 🌍)
A window of opportunity, also called a margin of opportunity or critical window, is a period of time during which some action can be taken that will achieve a desired outcome. Once this period is over, or the "window is closed", the specified outcome is no longer possible.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_of_opportunity
#WindowOfOpportunity #Time #Causes #Planning #Intention #Climatology
Okay, so after decades of saying: alarmist! irrealist! shut up dumb hippies! New voices claim: We cannot do anything now, let's continue as usual & embrace Mediterranean life => the guy has no notion in any of the fields of #climatology, from biology to the meer capacity of appreciating SERIOUSNESS
Human-caused climate change is severely escalating wildfire frequencies above natural levels in major California national parks by driving vegetation biomes into higher elevations.
#Climatology #ForestEcology #EnvironmentalScience #ClimateChange #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/07/as07292601.html
Restored human-made wetlands, though typically championed for their ecological benefits and carbon storage, can act as significant sources of methane, a potent greenhouse gas that complicates their role as definitive climate change solutions.
#Biogeosciences #Ecology #Climatology #EnvironmentalScience #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/07/es07292602.html
Plant canopy temperature—the actual heat experienced on leaf surfaces—is increasing at a significantly faster rate than ambient air temperature. Current climate models largely rely on air temperature, leading to a systematic underestimation of the thermal stress vegetation will face as global temperatures rise.
#Climatology #PlantPhysiology #Ecology #EnvironmentalScience #Hydrology #ClimateChange #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/07/as07212601.html
Airborne particulate matter from North African deserts is reaching Europe in increasing concentrations, creating a rising source of air pollution that counteracts the continent's recent decline in anthropogenic emissions.
#AtmosphericChemistry #Climatology #EnvironmentalScience #Epidemiology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/07/as07152601.html
