Scott Osprey

Expat Kiwi interested in climate dynamics; Co-lead of @WCRP_climate QBOi and Explaining & Predicting Earth System Change WG2 | @AtmosScience @OxfordAOPP

[Richard Traut @richardtraut]

My Latest on the Q.B.O (The Quasi-Biennial Oscillation)
@GavinPartridge @MarkVogan

[Scott Osprey @sosprey]

65th Cherwell Simon Lecture - The quantum computation revolution and its impact on physics https://t.co/jR2FW4SuJ5

[Scott Osprey @sosprey]

Australian-made rocket crashes with Vegemite payload left spread over wide area https://t.co/3eUK1IC7ii

[Scott Osprey @sosprey]

@NASA cancels subscription to @Nature as federal funding cuts have unexpected impacts https://t.co/9rClSlpzTK

[Scott Osprey @sosprey]

For a second analogy, think of a laser cavity. Light of a particular wavelength is amplified (via stimulated emission) in the laser tube. The ends of the tube are mirrors reflecting the light into the tube building power. But light leaks through the mirrors nonetheless.

[Scott Osprey @sosprey]

Rossby waves reflect & evanesce when they travel in the atmosphere meeting winds they cannot pass through (like the polar vortex after it breaks down). This general characteristic of waves is called total internal reflection and waves can leak through if the barrier is thin.

[Prof Michael E. Mann @MichaelEMann]

I wrote an article ("The Weather Amplifier") about the phenomenon of resonant amplification of the jet stream and impact of climate change six years ago in @SciAm (for the physics nerds, there's a discussion of the tie-in with quantum mechanics): https://t.co/ZBw4I7s4BT

[Scott Osprey @sosprey]

A likely outcome? "Scientists conclude solar geoengineering is a bad idea, please do not give us any further funds" https://t.co/Lq5NyGNF7T

[Scott Osprey @sosprey]

@PatRyanUC @realDonaldTrump Here is the budget: https://t.co/g7VKyT0Esz

[Scott Osprey @sosprey]

Proposed 2026 NASA budget slashes $6 billion, mostly from science programs https://t.co/sKsfk0uEOn via @nbcnews

[Scott Osprey @sosprey]

Profound. https://t.co/fmCE7aEzwU

[Scott Osprey @sosprey]

Deliveroo costs astronomical: The cost of feeding an astronaut, can be up to £20,000 per day. https://t.co/AFdVTMziUL

[Xaida Project @XaidaProject]

📢Do not forget to register for next week's webinar
📅23 April⏰2pm (14:00) CET 🔎Simon Klein from Office for Climate Education will talk about #educational #resources around climate extremes and especially XAIDA

📌Details and regsitration👉https//xaida.eu/xaida-webinar-17/

[Scott Osprey @sosprey]

Phew, and here was me thinking it would be a coalition of the undead...#spellchecker @BBCNews

[Scott Osprey @sosprey]

Great little video from the BBC about the Polar Vortex and how it can influence wintertime weather. It would be really good to have more of these sorts of explainer videos out there.
https://t.co/IXWKHyYpd4

[Scott Osprey @sosprey]

Splitting hairs: It was Rutherford: saying anything else is semantics and not physics. https://t.co/ow1FEqOxL0

[Scott Osprey @sosprey]

@mikeharrisNY @skdh Modern Large Language Models are copied from the neuronal structures within the brain. So it is more like a modern computer AI is a “toy brain”.

[Mark Smith Photography @marktakesphoto]

I have seen Ospreys grab so many different things. One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish. For a while, it was a goal of mine to complete the Dr. Seuss Osprey challenge, and I’ve happily done it many times since, but I never tire of seeing what they catch. To me, it’s just as fascinating as seeing them fall out of the sky, and when they are fishing in the Atlantic Ocean, you never know what they will come up with, and sometimes the bird glances down and seems surprised at what it managed to wrangle from the sea. The needlefish is always one of my favorites. This fish usually fights and bites back and always makes for a great photograph, as you can clearly see here. Glad I’m not a fish.

[Xaida Project @XaidaProject]

🆕 Next webinar: February 18th, 2025 at 2PM (14:00) CET
@Ajezeq will talk about ‘Broadening the scope of anthropogenic influence in extreme event attribution?’

💡Ref.: Jezequel et al. 2024, Environ. Res.: Climate 3

🔎Details & registration 👉 https://t.co/GsS2LZRDxp

[Scott Osprey @sosprey]

Absolutely brilliant use of AI! https://t.co/pfDFbEbBdx

[ClimaMeter @ClimaMeter]

#NewReport 💧February 2025 floods in #Queensland mostly exacerbated by human-driven climate change. 📊 Full Report: https://t.co/0HFnRLeA19 ✍️ Contact Authors @DaviFaranda & Gianmarco Mengaldo.

#QueenslandFloods