Climate: Past, Present & Future

Martin Wegmann

My name is Martin Wegmann and I am currently wearing two hats: Most of my time I am a data steward for the natural sciences community at the University of Bern, supporting our researchers in making their data open and accessible. Part time I am still a climate scientist, working on analysing open climate data and trying to create open data myself. Scientifically, I focus mostly on climate teleconnections, large scale circulation and seasonal climate prediction, but cover time scales from centuries to hours. X: @martin_wegmann LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-wegmann-climate/

Open climate science is brave climate science

Martin Wegmann and Lena Thöle December 6, 2024

Why are we climate scientists? For us, there is a number of reasons: we feel a strong bond to nature, we like to solve puzzles and we want to understand the mechanisms of what we see every day. And – even if it only manifests at the end of a causal chain – we want …[Read More]

How glaciers record the winds of change

Martin Wegmann, Ingo Sasgen and Annette Salles April 27, 2022

After decades of observation, one of the profound consequences of anthropogenic global warming is the rapid rise in temperature in the Arctic, refered to as Arctic Amplification. Compared to the mid-latitudes, warming in the Arctic is twice as fast. The reason is mainly due to the positive feedback of a melting cryosphere: Darker surfaces are …[Read More]

About

Welcome to the blog of the Climate: Past, Present and Future (CL) Division of the European Geosciences Union (EGU). The CL division covers all aspects of the ocean-climate-atmospheric systems, encompassing multiple, overlapping and complementary disciplines. We focus on the reconstruction of past climatic changes, the state of the current climate, and model predictions of future climate scenarios.

Through this blog, we aim to share a wide range of topics in climate science, not only with fellow scientists, but also with anyone interested in learning more about the climate system and its changes. This blog is run with great enthusiasm by our Editors-in-Chief. Everybody is warmly invited to contribute to the blog and submit posts to either Shalenys Bedoya-Valestt, Ceren Moral or Bianca Biess.

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