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vikkithompson.bsky.social
Climate scientist at KNMI and VU Amsterdam. Researching weather and climate extremes. Climate modelling, statistics, attribution.
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Perhaps a clue to understanding possible changes in Santa Ana winds that helped drive this January's Californian wildfires:

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In @wwattribution.bsky.social report on the LA wildfires this January we show the frequency and intensity of the atmospheric circulation of the event has increased in winter, raising the risk of weather conditions that drive the spread of wildfire. www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan...

submitted 25 days ago • 3 comments

This week at school Fritha is learning about polar animals... 'Mama and Dada have seen penguins in the wild, but only Dada has seen polar bears'. Perhaps not what her teacher expected!

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Congratulations to @raedhamed.bsky.social for successfully defending his PhD! He carried out important research on the impacts of compound weather events on crop yields, looking forward to seeing the next stages of his research 🌽☀️🫘🌧️

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

Wildfires aren’t a problem in the UK, right? Wrong. Not on the same scale as we are seeing in LA, but there are thousands of wildfires every year in the UK. In the heatwave of July 2022 wildfires broke out in London. Our new paper explores the risks: doi.org/10.1002/cli2...

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🌍🔥🌧️🌡️🌀 One week left to submit #EGU25 abstracts 🌀🌡️🌧️🔥🌍 Join our session on future weather and climate hazards! Featuring talks from Aglaé Jézéquel & Dominik Schumacher meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

#EGU25 Call for Abstracts open: Are you working on understanding high-risk climate extremes and their impacts? Then join our session! 🔵 High-impact climate extremes: from physical understanding and storylines to impacts and solutions 🎯Session: meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio... 🧪

submitted 88 days ago • 3 comments

#StormBert is bringing strong winds, rain, and snow to parts of Ireland and the UK over the weekend. Similar events have happened before, such as Storm Diana in 2018, but... (1/2)

submitted 92 days ago • 1 comment

Hi Bluesky, I've come over here to share our #EGU25 session. Are you researching weather and climate hazards? Submit an abstract to tell us about it! @tamarahappe.bsky.social @eunicelo.bsky.social @kornhuber.bsky.social

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