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Leipzig Institute for Meteorology
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All things blue sky from Leipzig University's experts on weather, climate & society 🌍 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌪⛈🌤☀️

#ClimateAttribution #PolarClimateChange #Clouds&Climate #ClimComms

https://www.physes.uni-leipzig.de/institut-fuer-meteo
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Now we have something nice and intuitive to better explain air quality, pollution, or dimming and brightening to the wider public. Awesome work! #SciComm

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Yellow and red stripes with white vertical line to demonstrate the temporal evolution of aerosol pollution in Germany. Blueish stripes since 2019 on the very right side of the plot. Yellow and red bars with two dashed grey vertical lines to show where very poor air quality begins (upper) and what the actual WHO guideline is (lower). Blueish bars since 2019 on the very right side of the plot.
October 1, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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A different way to illustrate attributable mortality is presented by this brilliant graph from @correctiv.org

correctiv.org/spotlight-ne...

Detailed methods and results are provided here:
www.imperial.ac.uk/grantham/pub...

#RapidAttribution #ClimateCrisis #Heatwave
Map of Europe with circles showing the percentage of attributable deaths in dark red.
July 10, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften in #Leipzig mit einem Bouquet an interessanten Veranstaltungen am Institut für Meteorologie (Stephanstr. 3) von 18 bis 23 Uhr #Science

www.wissen-in-leipzig.de/programm/loc...
White text with information about the nightly program at the institute with blue-red background (according to the design language of the event)
June 20, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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All the updates re global climate (temperature, forcing etc) you need to know! ⚠️

essd.copernicus.org/articles/17/...
figure with all the key numbers in white or red boxes overlaid on a graphical schematic of the contributing industires.
June 19, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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Interesting new paper on low-frequency variability in the Pacific. Aerosol-induced Northern Hemisphere dimming/brightening appears the main driver (Panel D). Rather uniform linear changes from GHGs as expected (Panel B). The remainder (Panel F) resembles the IPO (Interdecadal Pacific oscillation).
Figure with 3 Panels for tide gage changes on the left and 3 panels with the associated low frequency components.
June 4, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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The trend is indeed a wee bit upward 📈 The authors also warn that "our capability to observe the Earth's energy imbalance and budget terms is threatened as satellites are decommissioned". Daring times #ClimateCrisis
Graph with orange line for annual means of the imbalance with blue trend line on top. Grey bars are added vor years with an El Niño.
May 14, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Europe as a whole has warmed about 2.5°C already. And the trend is only going to continue up. Unless we drastically cut our carbon emissions #ESOTC2024 #C3S

Full report: bit.ly/427BzqJ

@wmo-global.bsky.social @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social
April 15, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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It's official now: 2024 first year to pass the 1.5°C global warming limit (temporarily) 🔥

www.bbc.com/news/article...
January 10, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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eventually, a colder Antarctic continent is saving us from even wylder global near-surface temperature deviations this month

www.karstenhaustein.com/climate
November 16, 2024 at 11:39 PM