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miguelmahecha.bsky.social
Earth system data sciences Prof. @UniLeipzig @RSC4Earth related to @UFZ_de @iDiv @SCADS.AI, worried about climate extremes, biodiversity, the human-environment nexus and the 🌎's future in general. Editor @EnvDataScience
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🚨 New paper out in @naturecomms.bsky.social We review how #AI is transforming modeling & understanding extreme weather & climate events like floods, heatwaves, and wildfires🌍🔥💨 🔗Read it! isp-uv.short.gy/AIforExtreme...

Fascinating work indeed!

🌍 Climate extremes, such as compound heatwaves and droughts, are increasing in both frequency and intensity, yet predicting their impacts on terrestrial ecosystems remains a challenge. Machine learning holds promise, but traditional datasets often struggle to represent these rare events effectively.

Are you interested in how vegetation influences climate? We tried to summarise a bit what comes to our mind 😀. Great experience working with Diego Miralles, Jordi Vila, and Tim McVicar! 🌳 nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Point of no return. Diesen Tag und diese Nachricht werde ich den Rest meines Lebens nicht vergessen. Denn heute habe ich eingesehen, dass man mir und meinesgleichen in meinem Geburts- und Heimatland niemals eine sichere Heimat bieten wird. search.app/kscX74bMF3Qj...

If you've never donated to Wikipedia, now's the time. Elon Musk is attacking it because it's one of the only sources of honest, curated information that he can't control. www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-ta...

I often see review articles showing trends of key-words in papers as proof of a topic's relevance. Why not normalize for the overall publication growth in the subject area? What do we actually learn from this?? I really don't understand 🤔 ...

Redrawing the global warming stripes. In a new paper led by Sebastian Sippel published in Nature today, we show that the early 20th century global ocean surface temperatures and thereby global mean surface temperature were warmer than previously thought. Thread... (1/13)

Now that everyone’s finally on Bluesky, I’m sharing our little summer paper again! 😄📄

The #iDivConference2024 was great discussions and amazing colleagues and friends! I am very happy that Karin Mora et al.; Chaonan Ji et al. and @dmlmont from my team could present their recent studies and plans and got excellent feedback!

So, we managed to survive review and published it is: npg.copernicus.org/articles/31/...

"Deep Moisture"??? Wow, it seems like we’re now competing with the beauty industry for the best project names! 😱💦🖥️😂

New preprint on an Open-Access and Interactive Database for Aerial Imagery to Uncover Global Tree Mortality Dynamics by my amazing PhD student Clemens Mosig with Janusch Vajna-Jehle and Teja Kattenborn and >100 coauthors! Check the website deadtrees.earth and paper www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Without words! @spdfraktion.de and @gruene-bundestag.de, is education and research really of no importance to you anymore? How much longer can the #BMBF be entrusted to leadership like this? www.spiegel.de/politik/deut... Oh.. speaking already means losing project support @fdpbt.de??

Recently published: deforestation leads to an increase in albedo, but this cooling effect of climate is by almost half compensated for by decreases in cloudiness www.nature.com/articles/s41...

To get 2 reviewers/paper, I have to invite >20. Meanwhile, I receive daily requests that I mostly decline because I'm committed to project reviews, tenure evaluations, teaching, team management, proposals. So I can't blame anyone, but how do we fix this? 🤔 #SustainablePeerReview what is this???

Nice short reminder and example that visualizations are analyses --- representation strongly influences interpretation

And published: esd.copernicus.org/articles/15/...

Very proud to be the first follower of @isp-uv-es.bsky.social 😀

Paper alert! We have discussed how #ClimateExtremes and #Biodiversity interact ... quite a long narrative, but ending in a few concise recommendations for future research: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

On #EarthDay2024 I am happy to share that on May 1st I’ll join Leipzig University as a Professor for Land-Atmosphere Interactions I look forward to working & teaching with all brilliant & kind colleagues at @rsc4earth.bsky.social, LIM & beyond! 🌍🛰️read more below ⬇️

Please RT: looking for you if you are a motivated post-doc working on VOC an Eddy-Covarianz for our #ECOSENSE project. Please apply here uni-freiburg.de/universitaet... more info: www.ecosense.uni-freiburg.de Foto Yannick Layer

🌍 Exciting opportunity for Earth System Sciences researchers! 🚀 The Deep Earth System Data Lab, supported by ESA, offers a unique chance for research teams. Learn more here at the "Announcement of Opportunity": www.earthsystemdatalab.net/index.php/aoo/ #EarthSystemSciences #ESA

I am so very happy to see this out! A great tool for data cube visualisation by @soechting.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/soec...

The Planetary Boundary concept is based on a strong visualisation. However, we argue that (1) the PB figure exaggerate via quadratic scaling of effect sizes, (2) colour gradations are highly non-linear, and (1)+(2) amplifies the perception of high-risk areas: egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...

Today, at the European Space Agency, ESRIN, we showed for the first time the fully interactive physical 3d #EarthSystemDataCube! This is part of the amazing PhD by Maximilian Söchting from our @rsc4earth.bsky.social in Leipzig. If you want to experience a 2d variant www.lexcube.org is the place!

Happy for PhD cand Francesco Martinuzzi for having is paper in discussion comparing various RNNs in modelling vegetation responses ... there are still arguments for #ESNs, but all models struggled to capture impact of extremes. More research needed! 🌱🌍 🔗https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-2368

My amazing PhD student Maximilan Söchting published his first paper on a fully interactive viewer for very large Earth data: www.lexcube.org Please try it out! Paper published in IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/102...