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Climate variability and change | Professor of Climate Science & Director of Climatic Research Unit | UEA | Views expressed here are my own, not UEA's

Tim Osborn

Professor Nick Graham FRS is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. He has advanced our understanding of the ecosystem ecology of coral reefs, how they are connected to other ecosystems, how they respond to climate change, and are linked to human society. #RSFellows https://bit.ly/49O52JM

There's also this 1901-2009 seasonal hindcasts catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/6e1c3df... from Weisheimer & O'Reilly but it only covers up to 2009

ECWMF provide gridded seasonal forecast fields from 1981-2026: cds.climate.copernicus.eu/datasets/sea... but this doesn't include simple time series of Nino3.4 etc. so they'd have to be calculated from the fields and then anomalised etc.

Does anyone know of a handy archive of ENSO (e.g. Nino3.4 index) 'reforecasts'/'hindcasts' or an archive of operational ENSO forecasts that stretches back at least 40 years (i.e. from the 1980s or earlier)?

UEA-led research finds 2025 was among the most destructive wildfire years on record, even though global burned area was near its lowest since 2002. The study highlights a widening gap between burned area and real-world impacts🔥 Read the item: tyndall.ac.uk/news/record-... #Wildfires #Climate

Prof Thomas Mock from @ueaenv.bsky.social is the co-lead author on a new study that reveals the deep-sea to be a unique “evolutionary engine” with potential for biotechnology and DNA sequencing innovation. Read more: https://bit.ly/49SHWSk #ResearchMatters #DeepSea

Also a paper on 1958-2014 reforecasts, but I can't see the Nino3.4 data that went into producing their fig 5: doi.org/10.1175/JCLI... and anyway it doesn't cover the last decade.

Many thanks to the Yarrangobilly Caves team for another successful research fieldtrip. Cave monitoring first established by Pauline Treble now approaches 20 years. Crossposted with @openvibe.social

Professor Hayley Fowler FRS is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. She is an internationally-recognised leader in hydroclimatic extremes and has transformed our understanding of extreme rainfall and flood risk. #RSFellows https://bit.ly/4ucatcV

To see how important US science is, consider measurements of changes in ocean heat content. US data are ~53% of the total. Over half! But removing the US data is worse than randomly removing 80% of the total data, because unlike other countries, the US makes measurements everywhere. 🧪🌊