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Where is climate science heading? Views from the community

October 15, 2025
Where is climate science heading? Views from the community
Picture Credit: Andrea Schettino, Pexels

At the recent UNDERPIN2 conference (Understanding rare events and their climatic impacts, in Erice, Sicily), we held a discussion on the future of climate science. To guide the conversation, I ran an interactive survey to capture how climate scientists see the current challenges, opportunities, and blind spots in climate research, communication, and the use of artificial intelligence. The response ...[Read More]

AI-generated Images: the fragility of visual evidence in geosciences

and July 9, 2025
AI-generated Images: the fragility of visual evidence in geosciences
Figure: (left) Infrared satellite imagery of Hurricane Katrina. (right) AI-generated fake satellite image of a tropical cyclone over France. While visually similar to infrared satellite imagery, the storm structure and location are physically implausible and not based on real atmospheric data.

Recently, an increased number of visually striking “scientific” images have been found online: snapshots of turbulent flows with dreamlike structure, eerily symmetric cloud patterns, and what appeared to be global temperature fields annotated with plausible colormaps and scientific-looking labels. Many of these posts quickly go viral on social media. And yet, in many cases, the images ...[Read More]

NP Interview the incoming Nonlinear Processes in Geosciences Division President: Davide Faranda

April 21, 2025
NP Interview the incoming Nonlinear Processes in Geosciences Division President: Davide Faranda
The incoming NP Division President Davide Faranda.

Today’s NP Interviews hosts the incoming NP Division President Davide Faranda. Davide is Research Director in Climate Physics in the Laboratoire de Science du Climat et de l’Environnement (LSCE) of the Institute Pierre Simon Laplace at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). He is an expert of weather extreme events such as cold spells, heatwaves, cyclones and severe thund ...[Read More]

NP Interview the outcoming Nonlinear Processes in Geosciences Division President: François Schmitt

April 21, 2025
NP Interview the outcoming Nonlinear Processes in Geosciences Division President: François Schmitt
The outcoming NP Division President François Schmitt.

Today’s NP Interviews hosts the outcoming NP Division President François Schmitt. François has a PhD degree from Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris (1993), in atmospheric turbulence, and an Habilitation degree from the same university (2001). He has stayed in Belgium during 6 years as a post-doc, working in meteorology and in fluid mechanics. He is CNRS researcher in Wimereux (North of Fran ...[Read More]