We are happy to announce that the growing Nonlinear Processes in Geosciences (NP) community has a new unifying platform where newsworthy information on different topics will be published, with the main aim to reach many scientists at a time.
Thus, this is the official launch of the Nonlinear Processes in Geosciences Blog!
We hope this platform could serve as a starting point to strengthen our community, increase its numbers, improve communication among us, and play an essential role throughout the European Geosciences Union.
Thus, we welcome you to contribute guest articles to our blog and we especially encourage posts on:
- upcoming events, conferences, workshops, schools;
- outstanding research of early career scientists;
- outstanding and review works of established scientists;
- job opportunities and search for academic and non-academic positions;
- interesting funded projects on all aspects of geosciences;
- new technological, methodological, and pedagogical developments;
- all other ideas of interests for the NP community.
In addition to the above exciting ideas we will also launch two different activities:
- “NP Interviews”: an interview with scientists belonging to the NP Division in relation to their activities for the division itself;
- “NPG Paper of the Month”: a dedicated post to a selected paper from the Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics journal.
We would like to make the blog a success … so we are really looking forward to your contributions! Please feel free to contact us at ecs-np@egu.eu if you want to pitch a blog post idea!
Tommaso Alberti, Davide Faranda, Christian Franzke, Anna von der Heydt, Stéphane Vannitsem
I’m researcher in physics at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). I’m an expert of weather extreme events such as cold spells, heatwaves, cyclones and severe thunderstorms. My research activity focuses on the attribution of extreme events to climate change, that is understanding how much greenhouse gases influence the occurrence of extremes
My name is Christian Franzke and I am a scientist with a broad interest in climate science. Currently my research focuses on understanding climate variability across scales, climate change, nonlinear dynamics, extreme weather and climate events, weather and climate risks, and the economics of climate change. I am also teaching on those topics. In particular, I developed a new and unique class on Weather and Climate Risks. In this class I combine the physical with the socio-economic aspects of weather extremes and climate change.
I am an assistant professor at the Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. My work focusses on (palaeo-) climate phenomena and transition behaviour in climate using a hierarchy of climate models and stochastic dynamical systems approaches. Moreover I’m using state-of-the-art (high resolution) climate models to quantify the state-dependent climate response to forcing.
Currently I am active in the Netherlands Earth System Science Centre (NESSC), the Centre for Complex Systems Studies in Utrecht (CCSS) and a H2020 funded project on tipping points in the Earth System (TiPES).
I am a researcher at the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV) in Rome, Italy. My research has an inter-disciplinary character and it mainly focuses on the understanding of processes occurring in geosciences, space sciences, and complex systems at different spatio-temporal scales. My investigations revolve around several key areas as weather and climate extremes with impacts on aviation turbulence, airports closures due to the adverse weather conditions, Acqua Alta events in Venice, flooding events after huge storms; turbulence and dissipation in both fluids and plasmas; and tipping points to develop statistical methods for identifying transition thresholds in complex systems at bifurcation points at different spatio-temporal scales with application to climate and paleoclimate, turbulence, and epidemiology.
