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PhD student @ufz.de and @scadsai.bsky.social. Interested in applying ML to study weather, climate, and compound extreme events.

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someone should create a swimming ring from this!

30.09.2025 11:12 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Figure 1 shows this nicely visually. I also only learned about this recently

04.09.2025 10:06 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Quantifying changes in climate variability and extremes: Pitfalls and their overcoming Conventional normalization of spatiotemporal data sets with respect to a reference period induces artifacts Normalization-induced artifacts are most severe if variability or extremes are under scru...

Not to say it would alter any conclusions, but it's good to keep in mind that this methodology of computing ฯƒ on a calibration set and then defining extremes on a test set based on whether they exceed n * ฯƒ can lead to overestimating the extremeness of the event. doi.org/10.1002/2015...

04.09.2025 10:05 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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On my way to @ellisunitjena.bsky.social for the "AI for Earth and Climate Sciences" summer school ๐Ÿšฒ๐Ÿž๏ธ๐Ÿ™Œ

31.08.2025 09:04 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Greetings from @jonathanwider.bsky.social at the Machine Learning Summer School, which is taking place at the @Universidad Catรณlica San Pablo in Peru at an altitude of 2,300 meters. The summer school runs from 2 to 13 August and includes lectures by numerous renowned ML/AI researchers.

08.08.2025 12:02 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I checked a few ones and could see the prompt in the arxiv HTML version

05.07.2025 19:35 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Heute gelernt: Die physikalischen Einheiten-Vorsรคtze kommen zum Teil aus dem Dรคnischen. Femten als dรคnisches Wort fรผr 15 wurde zur Vorsilbe "Femto", wobei z.B. ein Femtometer 10 hoch minus 15 Meter sind. Analog bei atten, dรคnisches Wort fรผr 18, ein Attometer sind 10 hoch minus 18 Meter.

12.06.2025 11:51 ๐Ÿ‘ 23 ๐Ÿ” 5 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Eine StraรŸe mit Hรคusern aus der Grรผnderzeit. Erker und Tรผrmchen.

Eine StraรŸe mit Hรคusern aus der Grรผnderzeit. Erker und Tรผrmchen.

Gestern war dieses Foto von Andrรฉ Kempner in der LVZ.

In dem ersten Haus mit Erker rechts wohnten meine GroรŸeltern und eine zeitlang auch ich.

Wenn ich als Kind zu Besuch kam, stand meine GroรŸmutter am Erkerfenster und winkte. Das war schรถn.

Alle Hรคuser waren grau damals.

28.05.2025 06:26 ๐Ÿ‘ 104 ๐Ÿ” 12 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4 ๐Ÿ“Œ 5
ClimaX - ClimaX

Microsoft also announced its first AI weather forecasting model (ClimaX) in early 2023 - microsoft.github.io/ClimaX/

(This is not to say that Aurora is any less interesting as a result)

22.05.2025 09:32 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Are "ConvNets" missing an N?

20.05.2025 16:11 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Interesting read despite the annoyingly clickbaity title

19.05.2025 22:38 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

My guess is that the person joined BlueSky after clicking the link to your starter pack. Someone on Reddit thought the same.

10.03.2025 11:50 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

jetzt sind alle Kreise ausgezรคhlt - wenn es dabei bleibt waren es etwa 10,000 Stimmen zu wenig fรผr die 5% Hรผrde.

24.02.2025 00:56 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

und es fehlt noch 3x BaWรผ, 3x NRW, 1x MeckPomm & 1x Schleswig Holstein...

24.02.2025 00:19 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

jetzt auf 284 - und sie stehen bei 5,001% wenn ich mich nicht verrechnet habe beim (BSW / Gรผltige)-Stimmen rechnen.

24.02.2025 00:10 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Studie zu den Pariser Klimazielen: Hat die 1,5-Grad-ร„ra begonnen, Herr Bevacqua? Das 1,5-Grad-Ziel ist gefรคhrdet, wie aktuelle Berechnungen zeigen. Trotzdem rรคt Klimaforscher Emanuele Bevacqua, daran festzuhalten: Noch sei es mรถglich, die Erderwรคrmung zu verlangsamen.

Das 1,5-Grad-Ziel ist gefรคhrdet, wie aktuelle Berechnungen zeigen. Trotzdem rรคt Klimaforscher Emanuele Bevacqua, daran festzuhalten: Noch sei es mรถglich, die Erderwรคrmung zu verlangsamen.

10.02.2025 18:58 ๐Ÿ‘ 54 ๐Ÿ” 12 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
2022-2025 X Twitter mention data

2022-2025 X Twitter mention data

Here's Twitter's descent since 2022

06.02.2025 09:15 ๐Ÿ‘ 324 ๐Ÿ” 89 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7 ๐Ÿ“Œ 32

From my first impression, the largest change might be that you don't need to run the model yourself anymore, which is nice for people who don't have fancy GPUs available. I guess it also streamlines things for people who actually use the forecasts in decision making.

31.01.2025 17:48 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I'm not sure if this is a big change from a scientist's perspective. I thought the code and trained models for GenCast and GraphCast were already on GitHub and some of the forecasts were available on WeatherBench 2? (which is both great of course!) Maybe someone else can clarify :)

31.01.2025 17:27 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Tausende bei Kundgebung auf dem Leipziger Markt vor der CDU Zentrale. Menschen bauen #Brandmauer aus Kartons auf, rufen โ€žalle zusammen gegen den Faschismusโ€œ. Reden von Einzelpersonen und Vertreter:innen von Flรผchtlingsrat, Gewerkschaften, Kirche. #le3001

30.01.2025 16:06 ๐Ÿ‘ 693 ๐Ÿ” 134 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5 ๐Ÿ“Œ 7
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The value of failure: Learning from what didnโ€™t work โ€œWhat failure prepared you for later success?โ€ Tim Ferriss often asks this question to the high-performing guests on his podcast, giving them the opportunity to reflect on how setbacks have shaped the...

My esteemed former colleague @danklotz.bsky.social co-chairs a similar session at EGU this year: blogs.egu.eu/divisions/hs...

30.01.2025 11:06 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Isn't the first panel of this figure what you are looking for? bsky.app/profile/cope...

20.01.2025 13:30 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It's the same for me with "downscaling" and "upscaling" - it's used in the opposite way as "downsampling" and "upsampling" in signal processing & machine learning.

09.01.2025 15:39 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

... and I saw it in a presentation by @mdebrito.bsky.social

08.01.2025 22:00 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Do you mean the 38th Chaos Communication Congress (CCC =C^3 -> C3) or did I miss a joke?

01.01.2025 10:22 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Or also 2025 = 1^3 + 2^3 + 3^3 + 4^3 + ... + 9^3

01.01.2025 10:20 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Example of realistic rainfall simulations generated by a machine learning model over England and Wales (Addison et al., 2024)

Example of realistic rainfall simulations generated by a machine learning model over England and Wales (Addison et al., 2024)

PhD opportunity at Bristol: "Machine Learning for Understanding Extreme Weather in a Changing Climate". Please share with potential applicants. Deadline is Jan 31 12:00.

www.bristol.ac.uk/geography/co...

www.bristol.ac.uk/media-librar...

18.12.2024 09:51 ๐Ÿ‘ 17 ๐Ÿ” 9 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

Which makes training hard, I guess?

Assimilation windows also differ between ERA5 and HRES forecasts (at some time steps), which complicates the evaluation - this is e.g. described in chapter 5.2.2 of the GraphCast supplementary materials

07.12.2024 09:18 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I think the 12h timestep is mostly a consequence of the data ECMWF releases: the assimilation used for ERA5 has differences between the 00z/12z and 06z/18z initialization times (unequal "lookahead", i.e., up to how far in the future are observations used?).

07.12.2024 09:15 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

That's an interesting setup - I wasn't aware of it. They seem to use FourCastNet, which from my experience isn't the strongest ML weather prediction model, I would guess it's possible that repeating the analysis with GraphCast or Pangu would yield better results.

05.12.2024 12:32 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0