the final bit of my PhD work is now out in ERL! we look at how recent trends in tropical Pacific SSTs contributed to forest fire & climate trends in the Southwest US vs Eastern Australia (two super fire-prone regions with opposite-signed ENSO teleconnections) 🔥🌬️
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⚠️new(-ish) paper in Journal of Climate⚠️ i evaluated CMIP6 models' Pacific decadal SST variability and teleconnections... big takeaway is that models under-simulate temporal PDO/IPO variability on decadal timescales, likely affecting precip trends in the Southwest
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hi bluesky~ my name is tess, and i'm a climate scientist studying drought, fire, and climate variability and change! i recently defended my PhD on the climate dynamics that drive forest fire in the Western US at @lamont.columbia.edu and started as an NPP fellow at NASA GISS. excited to be here ❤
Lots of buzz online about an upcoming major March heatwave for the American SW & California. And in this case, it does indeed appear increasingly likely than an extremely anomalous and even record-breaking heatwave may envelop much of the SW about a week from now.
Find out how ENSO variability is affecting GHG forced fire trends in Australia and North America in new work by our amazing postdoc, Tess Jacobson
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Opposing contributions of the tropical Pacific to recent burned forest area trends in Eastern Australia and the Southwestern United States, Jacobson, Tess W P, Seager, Richard, Clarke, Hamish, Cook, Benjamin I, Juang, Caroline S
The Billion Dollar Weather and Climate Disaster dataset is back and now at @climatecentral.org!
Through the first half of 2025, there were 14 separate billion-dollar weather and climate disasters across the United States, costing $101.4 billion. 1/2
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Opposing contributions of the tropical Pacific to recent burned forest area trends in Eastern Australia and the Southwestern United States, Jacobson, Tess W P, Seager, Richard, Clarke, Hamish, Cook, Benjamin I, Juang, Caroline S
