Our climate group has a new website so you know exactly what we are going 😀 - very proud to have so many amazing and fun people working together. Check it out: climatebristol.org Co-led by Dr Rachel James Dr Eunice Lo Peter Watson

20yrs ago Valdes moved to Bristol and our climate/biochemistry group (BRIDGE) was born. We celebrated our anniversary by bringing back many of our alumni. I love co-leading the group with Fanny Monteiro - life is a lot of fun when you have such friendly and exciting colleagues❤️

With the new academic year soon to start, it seems like a good point to crowdsource resources with advice for starting PhD students - is there anything out there that you think would be particularly useful to share? Anything you'd have liked to know?

Very happy to share Henry's excellent work applying machine learning to achieve km-scale downscaling of rainfall in climate simulations! It's far cheaper than running km-scale regional models, opening up applications to e.g. studying extreme events in large simulation ensembles.

Only just learned there's a way to turn off allowing xAI to train their Grok model on your tweets, which was enabled by default. Under Settings -> Privacy... -> Grok

Also now on BlueSky: Peter Watson.bsky.social

Happy to share Bobby Antonio's paper on applying generative machine learning to improve skill at forecasting rainfall in East Africa: doi.org/10.1029/2024MS… Particularly interesting aspects are improvements in the diurnal cycle and getting good performance in an extreme season.