News – TerraFIRMA

TerraFIRMA General Assembly, Met Office, May 2025

jwong — Thu, 29 May 2025 08:40:26 +0000

This year’s TerraFIRMA General Assembly was held successfully at the Met Office in Exeter on 14 and 15 May. Approximately 54 participants attended in-person, while another 20 joined online. The programme featured science talks and posters from across the breadth of TerraFIRMA, along with progress updates, breakout groups sessions, and discussions on ideas for potential future funding.

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Integrating Land Surface Modelling and Machine Learning for Wildfire Prediction

jwong — Fri, 02 May 2025 18:18:09 +0000

In an era of AI, why does explainable machine learning still matter for wildfire prediction? ECMWF scientist Joe McNorton explores how transparency in machine learning is vital for understanding and predicting the worlds emerging extreme fire crisis.

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TerraFIRMA at EGU25

jwong — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 15:46:43 +0000

TerraFIRMA researchers will be taking part in the General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union (EGU25) from Sunday 27 April until Friday 2 May 2025.

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UK National Climate Science Partnership

hjeffery — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 15:07:00 +0000

The UK’s leading climate science organisations have joined forces to develop a new national alliance focused on climate solutions for society.

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20 years later: Tropical ecosystems in a world without fire

hjeffery — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 12:18:59 +0000

Our findings suggest that the role of fire in the future of forests needs greater attention..

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Evaluating the representation of atmospheric ammonia in UKESM1 utilising Earth Observation data

hjeffery — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 10:42:13 +0000

Representing nitrate aerosols in the UK Earth system model will help us understand future air quality and climate change impacts.

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Climate Insights Briefing with the European Commission

hjeffery — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 08:33:28 +0000

Policy-relevant new findings in climate and Earth system science

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Fire’s net impact on the global carbon cycle

hjeffery — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 14:09:58 +0000

Transdisciplinary capacity is required to understand the challenges of fire and its impacts in a rapidly changing world.

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Making Musical Marine Heat Waves

hjeffery — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 11:04:25 +0000

Marine Heat Waves is a sonification video of projections of the future of the Ascension Island Marine Protected Area’s marine environment.

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Scenario Choice Impacts Carbon Allocation Projection at Global Warming Levels

hjeffery — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 15:23:48 +0000

We investigated the flux of carbon from the atmosphere into the land surface and the ocean for multiple models and over a range of future scenarios.

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Fire science Learning AcRoss the Earth system (FLARE) Workshop

hjeffery — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 15:20:04 +0000

What are the challenges in understanding fire behaviour and its impacts across the world?

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The TerraFIRMA overshoot simulations: Experiment protocol and early results

hjeffery — Mon, 08 Nov 2021 07:29:02 +0000

New Earth system model experiment protocol for investigating climate risks at different levels of Global Warming (GWL) and with different global warming overshoots.

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