My first international conference & first oral talk & first trip to the Southern Hemisphere. 2011 IUGG General Assembly at Melbourne, Australia.

C.-G. Rossby worked as a research assistant with Prof. Vilhelm Bjerknes in Bergen. At that time the polar front theory was just discovered, and Rossby witnessed the milestone in meteorology! Check out Bergeron (1958) to learn more about young Rossby: books.rupress.org/sites/books.ru…

A nice review paper on Machine Learning for weather and climate modeling by de Burgh-Day and Leeuwenburg (2023). A roughly chronological order helps the reader to see the challenges and progress. egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/2023…

Great work by Chongxing Fan! I am pleased to be one of the co-authors of this paper!

Wow. Lanyu Weather Station on Orchid Island, Taiwan, at an elevation of 324 m, recorded a wind gust of 342 km/h (212 mph) at 9:53 pm local time as the eyewall of Typhoon Koinu moved over the area. This is provisionally the highest gust ever recorded in Asia.

"What is the point of asking scientists to write documents that can be easily created with AI?" "What value are we adding?" Parrilla, J. M. (2023, Nature): ChatGPT use shows that the grant-application system is broken nature.com/articles/d4158… nature.com/articles/d4158…

A nice overview paper on the applications of ML in cloud-related processes in the climate system. Perfect for non-ML experts. Beucler et al. (2023): Machine Learning for Clouds and Climate (pp. 325–345). doi.org/10.1002/978111… -----

"...10 federal workers fired from the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL), a small but influential research center in Princeton, New Jersey, as part of broader NOAA layoffs announced on 27 February." Sad. science.org/content/articl…

Complete nonsense. commerce.gov/news/press-rel…