New @nature paper: nature.com/articles/s4158… NeuralGCM results (all are a "first"): 1) A differentiable hybrid atmospheric model 2) Competitive with ECMWF ensemble 3) Competitive with a GCRM in a year-long simulation 4) 40-year AMIP-like runs. Smaller bias than AMIP runs. 1/

About 94% of the ocean surface experienced at least 1 marine heatwave in 2023 (defined as sea-surface temperatures in the warmest 10% of all recorded data in a particular location on that day for at least 5 days). #StateoftheClimate2023 More highlights: climate.gov/sotc2023

Heavy summer rainfall from the Yangtze River to Japan is often preceded by El Nino. See our paper “Why East Asian monsoon anomalies are more robust in post El Niño than in post La Niña summers?” nature.com/articles/s4146…

Check out our new paper led by M. Toda! We demonstrate that SST changes outside the tropics are quantitatively important for the recent Pacific Walker circulation strengthening. nature.com/articles/s4156…

A photo I took after work one day—this dog looks like a great driver😂

OK I understand why hurricanes don’t ever cross the equator, but why don’t they touch down in South America?

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The 2023-24 El Niño helped break the global temperature record. This strong El Niño is peculiar in that it developed apparently without a large swing in the Southern Oscillation.

In a paper published today in Nature Geoscience, we show that temperature anomalies in other tropical oceans kept the trade wind strong even as the El Niño was growing. doi.org/10.1038/s41561…

“A Major Conceptual Advance” on El Niño today.ucsd.edu/story/a-major-…

Article: Strong 2023-24 El Niño generated by ocean dynamics Shang-Ping Xie Qihua Peng (Postdoc at UCSD) Ayumu Miyamoto Pengcheng Zhang Scripps Institution of Oceanography NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research nature.com/articles/s4156…

BREAKING: Massive Glacier Collapse in Blatten, Valais (Switzerland) – May 28, 2025 Over 3.5 million m³ of ice, rock, and snow collapsed from the Birch Glacier, putting 9 million tons of pressure on the glacier. The entire village of Blatten (approx. 300 people) was evacuated in

Weather Monitor Luckily, people and animals were evacuated early! x.com/ScMesab/status…

Out today in Nature, our new paper on the drivers of the extreme summertime heating of the North Atlantic during 2023. Temperatures across much of the basin warmed to record high levels in the space of just a few months. The impacts on climate and ecosystems were severe. A thread

Please consider submitting an abstract to our AGU25 session OS011: El Niño-Southern Oscillation and Pantropical Climate Interactions: Mechanisms, Predictability, Impacts, and Projections. We are thrilled to have Fei-Fei Jin and Qihua Peng (Postdoc at UCSD) as our invited speakers!

NPR Short Wave podcast on our modeling work showing that surface warming accelerates upper ocean currents (Peng et al. 2022; doi.org/10.1126/sciadv…), featuring Lynne Talley and Matt Luongo. npr.org/transcripts/12…