A new study led by CIRES/CU Boulder’s Max Elling proposes a practical framework to help identify how model choices, including physical parameters and experimental setups, create performance tradeoffs that affect metrics directly relevant to nature and society.
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AGU is now accepting applications for Editors-in-Chief across five publications, with terms starting Jan 1, 2027. These roles help shape editorial standards, research quality, and peer review in Earth & space science. Apply by May 1, 2026.
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It's been a very warm and dry winter in Boulder, CO.
Data from GHCN-Daily since 1900.
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Globally, no single day in 2025 was cooler than its 1991-2020 average.
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🌍 Our new @natclimate.nature.com study, led by @xuyanbin.bsky.social shows climate variations like El Niño don’t just affect weather — they can shape long-term human health and economic outcomes. Proud to contribute on the climate science side.
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Need a little help! Student seeking high-freq (at least daily), high-res (~10 km or less) gridded ~surface ozone & PM2.5 observations. Next best thing would be hourly station-level data of surface O3 and PM2.5 with decent spatial coverage across the globe. Anyone out there know of such a dataset?
We ran 15 experiments using models from four institutions (MPI, NASA/GISS, NCAR and NOAA/GFDL).
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ColdBlobMIP: A Multi-Model Assessment of the Atmospheric Response to the North Atlantic Warming Hole
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A global map of the Pacific Ocean showing surrounding continents with orange colors highlighting warmer sea surface temperatures.
Ocean scientists are one step closer to understanding the connection between warming in the Eastern Tropical Pacific Ocean and its impact on weather and climate. The new study by @oceanclilmatecu.bsky.social and partners in @agu.org Earth's Future is spotlighted here! buff.ly/Tcbj2fq
Today, we published a study long in the making on how upper and subsurface tropical Pacific waters responded (and maybe will adjust) to warmer global climate. Here’s the story of how we got here after 15 years. many authors but shout out @jfarmersalmanac.bsky.social
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This special collection will publish U.S.-focused climate assessment science that’s free to read, ensuring rigorous, accessible science informs decisions for years to come.
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"my mentee sent an email thanking me for my support and guidance, which she said helped increase her confidence. She probably doesn’t know that she helped increase my confidence, too."
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"mentorship is a two-way exchange that energizes and inspires all participants to become active agents of change"
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That's when the magic happens, and you know it. Do it for one more day!
Editorial published today by the Editors-in-Chief of the @agu.org journals:
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The visible sharpness of the transition between calm and windy is incredible.
Big El Niños 🌊 usually come with big 🌎 teleconnections.
The one in 2023/24 didn't. Why?
Rainfall anomalies in the tropical Pacific were suppressed due to greater warming in Indian and Atlantic Oceans.
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Led by Lei Zhang, with @matcollins.bsky.social
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Beautiful outflow boundaries making new storms in their wake. #cowx
A new observational benchmark for equatorial upwelling
@usclivar.bsky.social Research Highlight
Our general tendency to underestimate equatorial upwelling may offer a clue into the disagreement between historical trends and climate model simulations of Pacific SSTs.
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A rocky, desert landscape with mountainous terrain along the horizon. In the top left, there is a blue box with the CIRES logo and white text: News. Groundwater levels in the US Southwest more sensitive to climate shifts than in the Pacific Northwest.
Groundwater levels in the Southwest & Pacific Northwest responded differently to precipitation changes during the Last Glacial Termination, according to new research led by @whoi.edu's Alan Seltzer & co-authored by CIRES Fellow Kris Karnauskas.
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Climate.gov, a major US government website supporting public education on climate science, will likely shut down after almost all of its staff were fired. What would be worse is if the website were co-opted to publish climate denial content.
Deadline extended by one week... applications due June 22!
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New work led by former CIRES Visiting Fellow Chris Little uncovered 3 distinct spatial patterns in Pacific Ocean tide gauge sea level records. @oceansclimatecu.bsky.social @colorado.edu
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Sea level and climate variability in the Pacific Ocean
Work led by former @cires.colorado.edu Visiting Fellow Chris Little uncovered 3 distinct spatial patterns in Pacific Ocean tide gauge sea level records...
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185 departures in a day. Up about 50% from this time in 2021. (Nothing to do with the holiday weekend. Last Thursday was just an average day in terms of traffic.)
The vast majority are loud, slow-moving, fixed-wing propeller planes flying a few hundred feet above dense residential neighborhoods, parks and schools before returning to RMMA so they can do it again.
