The water flow in the Rhine keeps plummeting. It had never been below 780 m³/s in summer. When we were at 650, an expert told us it couldn't go much lower. Now we're at 572 m³/s, the lowest on record, even below the ice blocked flow in the winter of 1929.
Sergio Vicente
@sergio-vicente.bsky.social
Professor at IPE-CSIC working to understand climate change and extreme events.
The risk of crop failure is rising due to the increasing severity of hot, dry wind events in one of the world's primary breadbaskets. rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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New preprint on the physics of land humidity using 'water tagging' simulations. Key pt: land specific humidity changes primarily controlled by water advected from ocean regions, but relative humidity changes closely tied to local processes (e.g., soil moisture) essopenarchive.org/doi/abs/10.2...
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🎓 Ponemos fin a tres intensos días en la Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo. Ha sido un auténtico placer mostrar los nuevos servicios climáticos desarrollados con @aemet.es en este marco incomparable. ¡Mil gracias a la universidad y asistentes! ℹ️ pti-clima.csic.es/aemet-y-csic... @csic.es
💻 Aemet y el CSIC presentan la Plataforma Estatal de Servicios Climáticos. ➡️ Una herramienta que transforma datos científicos en información útil para la toma de decisiones. ➡️ 10 servicios climáticos y un almacén de datos. + info 👉 www.aemet.es/es/noticias/...
Aemet y CSIC desarrollan una nueva plataforma de consulta y análisis de información climática - Agencia Estatal de Meteorología - AEMET. Gobierno de España
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¿Hasta el 40 de mayo no te quites el sayo? 🤔 Descubre la ciencia que hay detrás de este y otros refranes de la mano del investigador Amar Halifa en la charla "Impactos del calentamiento global en el refranero castellano". @ifca.es @ipe-csic.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZGv...
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🧑🎓 Este verano impartiremos el #curso "Servicios climáticos para una sociedad resiliente" en la Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo. Nos acompañarán ponentes del @csic.es, @aemet.es y la Oficina Española de Cambio Climático. Más información 👉 uimp.es/agenda-link.... @csic-vaact.bsky.social
¡Ya disponible nuestra #newsletter de invierno! Puedes leerla e inscribirte nuestra web: pticlima.newsletter.csic.es/email/previe... @csic-vaact.bsky.social
The push for open access (which turned out to be 'Gold'), first from the grassroots and then top down from governments, has created a situation where big publishers now feel they can (and do) charge outlandish APCs. That $ could more than pay for a graduate student stipend for an entire summer. 1/
🔥 New paper out in Science Advances We detect a clear externally forced signal in the global increase of extreme fire weather days since 1980. Using reanalyses and CMIP6 simulations, the fingerprint of change emerges above natural variability. 📄 doi.org/10.1126/scia...
Extreme fire weather days are increasing worldwide. Since 1979, days with FWI > p95 have risen globally, closely tracking global warming. More heat → more fire-conducive conditions.
Meanwhile, Spain's massive investment in renewables is paying dividends now: with prices for Spanish industry and consumers low and stable compared with other European economies. www.ft.com/content/ac77...
Un niño ugandés que fue apadrinado por una familia australiana, que lo apoyó hasta que se convirtió en médico. 36 años después se encuentran. El video es conmovedor. La solidaridad, fraternidad, gratitud y la empatía, siguen siendo los valores que nos hacen humanos. Todavía quedan personas así. 😍👇👏
I’ve heard from multiple friends today about daycares being raided and parents being ripped out of cars (in one case with a child left behind in the backseat). Grim times here.
The situation in Minneapolis is insane: seemingly many large convoys of heavily armed masked men, blocking off streets at random, grabbing people nearly at random, racing around the city with no discernible plan or aim. Under attack by our own government the day after it killed someone
This is an interesting result, but we argued in a paper last year that North Pacific jet trends are not inconsistent with observed low frequency variability. A southward trend ended just as the satellite era began. Patterson & O'Reilly, GRL, (2025) agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Nature research paper: Climate change shifts the North Pacific storm track polewards go.nature.com/4jy48Vh
my great-grandparents arrived in the UK in the 1890s with nothing. they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors. their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen. their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.
This is so disgusting.
Regreening & the water cycle agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Land Cover Changes Redistribute China's Water Resources Through Atmospheric Moisture Recycling
Land use/cover changes (LUCC) in China increased ET (+1.71 mm/yr) and precipitation (+1.24 mm/yr) but decreased water availability (WA) (−0.46 mm/yr) LUCC caused the most severe WA reduction in C...
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When global temperatures shot up by ~6°C about 56 million years ago, plants were unable to thrive The reduced ability of vegetation & soils to capture & store carbon may have kept temperatures elevated for >100,000 years Today Earth is warming ~10 times faster than it did 56 million years ago
56 million years ago, the Earth suddenly heated up – and many plants stopped working properly
It could be a sign of what’s to come.
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Floods in Southeast Asia have claimed hundreds of lives and caused massive economic disruption. WMO Members are working around the clock to provide forecasts and early warnings to inform emergency action. More details here: 🔗 https://bit.ly/3Xte2NU
A mother and her 15 year old autistic son are reunited after nearly 50 days apart. Emmanuel Garcia went missing, and rather than check missing person’s reports, Houston PD called ICE. ICE sent him to the Office of Refugee Resettlement and his mom has been fighting to get him back ever since.
🏆 Sergio Martín Vicente, Profesor de Investigación del @csic.es en el @ipe-csic.bsky.social, recibe el Premio Aragón Investiga "Miguel Servet" a la Excelencia Investigadora 🌍 Reconocido por sus contribuciones fundamentales al estudio del cambio climático ¡¡Enhorabuena!!
The Vietnamese Bach Ma Mountain Peak station recorded one-day rainfall of 1,739 mm - close to the global one-day record and perhaps a new record for the northern hemisphere. It is part of a deluge Viet Nam has seen in October, shattering 35 precip records. e.vnexpress.net/news/news/en...
Vietnam sees 35 rainfall records broken in October - VnExpress International
Vietnam's northern and central regions saw a total of 35 rain records broken in October alone as two storms, Matmo and Fengshen, caused unprecedented downpours.
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🏅 Marcos Gil, técnico de EEAD en la PTI #Clima, premio al mejor #póster en el congreso de #estadística bayesiana "IUMA day on Bayesian analysis: The influence of Alan Gelfand's work" que se ha celebrado esta semana en @unizar.es ¡Enhorabuena Marcos! 👏
9-yr-old Ukrainian Sasha Paskal has won gold&bronze medals at the All-Ukrainian Rhythmic Gymnastics Competition "Black Sea Cup" In the summer of 2022she was seriously injured by a Russian strike and underwent a leg amputation Sasha didn’t give up.She went through rehabilitation 📹bokareva.solovey.m
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This is a common finding when studying drought in the recent instrumental record and in future projections: much more change in metrics that include the impacts of warming (on vapor-pressure deficit and potential evapotranspiration) when compared to changes in precipitation alone.
📣 Summer low flows decreased in Germany in the last 5 decades and increases in evapotranspiration played a role in that, esp in less humid areas. For more details & analyses, check out our new paper: hess.copernicus.org/articles/29/... @igb-berlin.de @slfdavos.bsky.social @hyclimm.bsky.social
Imprints of increases in evapotranspiration on decreases in streamflow during dry periods, a large-sample analysis in Germany
Abstract. Decreases in streamflow (Q) during dry periods can negatively affect river ecosystems and human societies, and understanding their causes is crucial to anticipate them. The contribution of i...
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An appropriate and elegant response to the claims of a shameful report. www.ametsoc.org/ams/about-am...
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