Podcasts about medium range weather forecasts

Samantha Burgess, Strategic Lead for Climate at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, discusses why March was the warmest ever in Europe and the second warmest globally.

Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents -While there is some disagreement as to whether we have passed the 1.5°C threshhold set at COP 21 in Paris, scientists agree that we are on the brink and 2024 was the hottest year on record. At COP 29 last November, Jim Skea, Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) explained, “Children born today will not know a world without climate change. The IPCC has shown that we, and furthermore they, will live in a world marked by more intense storms, exceptional heatwaves, devastating floods and droughts, a world where food chains are disrupted, and where diseases reach new countries.” On Friday, January 10,  Samantha Burgess, Strategic lead for climate, European Centre for  Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, reported,  “We are now living in a very different climate from that, which our parents and our grandparents experienced.” “Giving some more details for 2024, the year was 1.6°C above the pre-industrial level. 2024 was the warmest year on record, and the last 10 years have been the 10 warmest years on record. The primary reason for these record temperatures is the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and this accumulation has occurred primarily due to fossil fuels as greenhouse gases continue to accumulate in the atmosphere. Temperatures continue to increase including in the ocean. Sea levels continue to rise and glaciers and ice sheets continue to melt. According to the latest IPCC six assessment report published in 2021, greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere are the highest that they have been for the last, at least 800,000 years for methane and for over 2 million years for carbon dioxide.” The most positive reports of last year's average global temperature rise come from NASA and NOAA, in the United States, who claim it was slightly below 1.5°C. However the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) confirmed that 2024 was warmest year on record and stated the average global temperature was 1.55°C. This is the second year in a row that Berkeley Earth reported that the global temperature rise exceeding 1.5°C. They were 1.54°C in 2023 and 1.62°C in 2024. As a result of our entering a weak La Niña phase, Berkeley Earth suggests 2025 could be cooler than 2024, but still ‘roughly the 3rd warmest year in the instrumental record.' Jim Skea warned, “Today, our chances of limiting warming to 1.5 °C are hanging on a very slender thread. The recent UNEP Gap Report concluded that global emissions would need to fall by 7.5% per year through to 2035 to return us to a 1.5 °C pathway. If we delay more ambitious action to 2030, this becomes an unprecedented 15%. Even limiting warming to 2°C is at risk.” “This does not have to be the case. As the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report demonstrated, we have the know-how, tools and financial resources to avoid the worst consequences of climate change. A world where transport is no longer polluting, our cities are green, and we have transitioned away from fossil fuels. We have shown that carbon pricing, regulations and other interventions have already resulted in gigatonnes of avoided emissions. More can be achieved if policies and measures are scaled up and deployed more widely.”

We talk to with Julien Nicolas Senior Climate Scientist for the Copernicus Climate Change Service at the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts.

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A new 15 year, £30 million partnership between Reading University, the Met Office and the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts is going to be harnessing AI to produce more accurate forecasts that could predict the weather for up to six weeks in advance. As climate change brings longer droughts and more flooding, what benefits could better forecasting have for farmers? We speak to the Department of Meteorology at the University of Reading. The cleaner the river, the better it is for the fish that live in it. Bibury Trout Farm was founded more than 120 years ago on what were former watercress beds on the River Coln near Cirencester. The river is at the heart of what is still a working fish farm and tourist attraction. As part of our week looking into rivers in the landscape, we visit the farm and find out why the river is so vitally important to this business.Presenter = Caz Graham Producer = Rebecca Rooney

Increased tremors have been felt in Iceland, and concerns about an impending eruption have led to the evacuation of the town of Grindavik. Geophysicist Dr Freysteinn Sigmundsson reveals more about the events and whether this area of Iceland may be entering a new period of volcanic activity that could span centuries. Also, Google DeepMind's new GraphCast system could revolutionise weather forecasting. Rémi Lam from Google DeepMind and Dr Matthew Chantry from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts explain how it works. Beyond warming our planet, climate change can have wide-ranging, unexpected impacts on people and the environment. Dr Christopher Trisos from the University of Cape Town has the lowdown. Finally, recreating ancient seawater in the laboratory has given Dr Rosalie Tostevin, a geochemist from the University of Cape Town, additional information about the metals used by early microbes. Presenter: Roland Pease Producer: Alice Lipscombe-Southwell Editor: Martin Smith Production Co-ordinator: Jana Bennett-Holesworth (Image: Emergency services worker walking near a crack cutting across the main road in Grindavik, southwestern Iceland following earthquakes. Credit: KJARTAN TORBJOERNSSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.AI outperforms conventional weather forecasting for the first timeSummary: A new study published in the journal Science by a team at Google's DeepMind shows that their GraphCast AI model has significantly outperformed conventional weather forecasting models when it comes to predicting global weather conditions up to ten days in advance.Context: This is just an initial study, so we'll see if the findings hold up as more research is done, but it would seem that applying specialized AI tools to weather forecasting may result in better performance across 90% of 1,380 tested metrics, and that it may be able to do so faster and cheaper than existing models, with one estimate from the machine-learning coordinator at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts suggesting that this sort of model could be around 1,000-times cheaper, in terms of energy consumption, compared to traditional methods.—Ars TechnicaOne Sentence News is a reader-supported publication. To support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.UK top court says a plan to send migrants to Rwanda is illegalSummary: The UK's Supreme Court has ruled that because asylum-seekers sent to Rwanda as part of a plan by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's government to keep migrants from reaching the country would be “at a real risk of ill-treatment,” his plan is unlawful.Context: Sunak made keeping asylum-seekers who reached the UK via small boats from entering the country—sending them to Rwanda, with whom the UK has a treaty on the matter, while they go through the formal asylum-seeking process—a key part of his government's policy, so this is being seen as a significant loss for his administration; no one has yet been sent to Rwanda under the auspices of this plan, though, as it was immediately challenged in court, and part of the issue cited by the deciding justices is Rwanda's historical mistreatment of asylum-seekers, though Sunak's government and the Rwandan government argue that the country has become a safe place for refugees due to reformations it's made in the years since its infamous 1994 genocide.—The Associated PressHouse passes Johnson's plan to avert shutdown in bipartisan voteSummary: A US government spending bill has been passed by the House in a bipartisan vote that will keep the government open into early 2024.Context: The House Speaker, Mike Johnson, was forced to rely upon Democrats for the majority of the votes this bill received, though the vote was still 336 in favor and 95 against, so it passed the two-thirds threshold required but was far from unanimous or popular, especially amongst Republicans; the cadre of Republicans most responsible for booting the previous House Speaker did not support the bill, though they haven't indicated they'll be coming after Johnson for this bipartisan effort the way they came after McCarthy for doing basically the same thing; this bill is ostensibly meant to give Congress more time to come up with an actual, long-term spending bill, keeping funding levels where they've been, not providing more aid for Ukraine or Israel, and essentially kicking the can down the road, once more, till funding runs out, once again, on January 19, 2024 for one bundle of government programs, and February 2 for another.—The New York TimesThe number of international students at US universities has surged to a more than 40-year high, driven in part by a significant increase in Indian students (up 35%), which is more than making up for a loss in Chinese students.—The Washington Post$228 millionSum Japan-based Nissin Foods—which holds a ~40% share of the instant ramen market segment in the US—plans to spend to expand its US manufacturing capacity.That investment includes a 640,640 square-foot (nearly 60,000 square-meter) building in South Carolina, which is expected to be operational by Fall of 2025, and to create more than 300 local jobs.—Food DiveTrust Click Get full access to One Sentence News at onesentencenews.substack.com/subscribe

In recent weeks, extreme heat, floods and storms have smashed records and caused devastation around the world. Freak weather events such as these will become more frequent due to climate change—but they are exceptionally hard to predict. How are meteorologists gearing up to face the enormous challenge of predicting the weather in a warming world? Andrew Charlton-Perez, at the University of Reading in Britain, explains how weather forecasts are made—and why meteorology is such a complicated science. The Economist's Rachel Dobbs investigates the next frontiers in forecasting. She asks Sam Levang, the chief scientist at Salient Predictions, how artificial intelligence can play a role in improving predictions of the weather. Rachel also visits the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts's data centre in Bologna, Italy, to understand how a combination of technological approaches will be required to make weather forecasting fit for the 21st century. Alok Jha, The Economist's science and technology editor, hosts.For full access to The Economist's print, digital and audio editions subscribe at economist.com/podcastoffer and sign up for our weekly science newsletter at economist.com/simplyscience. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In recent weeks, extreme heat, floods and storms have smashed records and caused devastation around the world. Freak weather events such as these will become more frequent due to climate change—but they are exceptionally hard to predict. How are meteorologists gearing up to face the enormous challenge of predicting the weather in a warming world? Andrew Charlton-Perez, at the University of Reading in Britain, explains how weather forecasts are made—and why meteorology is such a complicated science. The Economist's Rachel Dobbs investigates the next frontiers in forecasting. She asks Sam Levang, the chief scientist at Salient Predictions, how artificial intelligence can play a role in improving predictions of the weather. Rachel also visits the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts's data centre in Bologna, Italy, to understand how a combination of technological approaches will be required to make weather forecasting fit for the 21st century. Alok Jha, The Economist's science and technology editor, hosts.For full access to The Economist's print, digital and audio editions subscribe at economist.com/podcastoffer and sign up for our weekly science newsletter at economist.com/simplyscience. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Andrea Montani Laurea in fisica (Università di Genova, I), Master e dottorato in Meteorologia (Università di Reading, UK). Dopo aver lavorato presso Arpa Emilia-Romagna Servizio IdroMeteoClima occupandosi di Modellistica Numerica Previsionale, lavora dal 2019 presso ECMWF, Computing Department, dove segue l'implementazione e il supporto dei sistemi produttivi operativi e time-critical. Andrea Montani - Degree in Physics (University of Genoa, I), Master and PhD in Meteorology (University of Reading, UK). After working at Arpa Emilia-Romagna Servizio IdroMeteoClima dealing with Numerical Weather Prediction, he has been working since 2019 at ECMWF, Computing Department, where he follows the implementation and the support of time-critical operational production systems. Siti, app, libri e link utili Centre Européen de Recherche et de Formation Avancée en Calcul Scientifique European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts ECMWF linkedin  ECMWF what we do  R2B BOLOGNA RESEARCH TO BUSINESS ART-ER Attrattività Ricerca Territorio è la Società Consortile dell'Emilia-Romagna nata per favorire la crescita sostenibile della regione  Tecnopolo di Bologna  I libri da scegliere  Weather Forecast Analyst o Analista previsionale nel settore metereologico Un analista previsionale è responsabile della previsione della produzione futura e delle condizioni finanziarie, di un prodotto, di un servizio, di una previsione per un ente o per un'azienda, analizza le statistiche dei dati correnti. Può applicare la sua expertise in diversi settori compreso quello metereologico. Un Forecast Analyst presso ECMWF e cioè European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts o Centro europeo per le previsioni meteorologiche a medio termine in particolare è chiamato a supportare i sistemi di produzione operativi critici di ECMWF, con focus su acquisizione e preelaborazione dei dati osservativi, gestione della catena di produzione, generazione, diffusione e archiviazione dei prodotti meteorologici. Garantire un'adeguata qualità del servizio per i sistemi di produzione operativi critici, compreso il supporto per lo sviluppo e la pianificazione dell'evoluzione, la transizione verso le operazioni, la definizione dei processi di supporto operativo, il monitoraggio e la documentazione. Eseguire e fornire consulenza sulla garanzia della qualità per nuovi contributi e modifiche ai sistemi operativi critici. Fornire consulenza nella fase iniziale relativamente a nuovi sviluppi mirati all'implementazione operativa, garantendo compatibilità e livelli adeguati di ottimizzazione e affidabilità. Partecipare a un servizio di chiamata 24 ore su 24 per i servizi che sono fondamentali per il funzionamento di Servizio di consegna delle previsioni ECMWF.

Long-term trends of light pollution assessed from SQM measurements and an empirical atmospheric model by Johannes Puschnig et al. on Tuesday 18 October We present long-term (4-10 years) trends of light pollution observed at 26 locations, covering rural, intermediate and urban sites, including the three major European metropolitan areas of Stockholm, Berlin and Vienna. Our analysis is based on i) night sky brightness (NSB) measurements obtained with Sky Quality Meters (SQMs) and ii) a rich set of atmospheric data products provided by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts. We describe the SQM data reduction routine in which we filter for moon- and clear-sky data and correct for the SQM "aging" effect using an updated version of the twilight method of Puschnig et al. (2021). Our clear-sky, aging-corrected data reveals short- and long-term (seasonal) variations due to atmospheric changes. To assess long-term anthropogenic NSB trends, we establish an empirical atmospheric model via multi-variate penalized linear regression. Our modeling approach allows to quantitatively investigate the importance of different atmospheric parameters, revealing that surface albedo and vegetation have by far the largest impact on zenithal NSB. Additionally, the NSB is sensitive to black carbon and organic matter aerosols at urban and rural sites respectively. Snow depth was found to be important for some sites, while the total column of ozone leaves impact on some rural places. The average increase in light pollution at our 11 rural sites is 1.7 percent per year. At our nine urban sites we measure an increase of 1.8 percent per year and for the remaining six intermediate sites we find an average increase of 3.7 percent per year. These numbers correspond to doubling times of 41, 39 and 19 years. We estimate that our method is capable of detecting trend slopes shallower/steeper than 1.5 percent per year. arXiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/http://arxiv.org/abs/2210.09177v1

Long-term trends of light pollution assessed from SQM measurements and an empirical atmospheric model by Johannes Puschnig et al. on Tuesday 18 October We present long-term (4-10 years) trends of light pollution observed at 26 locations, covering rural, intermediate and urban sites, including the three major European metropolitan areas of Stockholm, Berlin and Vienna. Our analysis is based on i) night sky brightness (NSB) measurements obtained with Sky Quality Meters (SQMs) and ii) a rich set of atmospheric data products provided by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts. We describe the SQM data reduction routine in which we filter for moon- and clear-sky data and correct for the SQM "aging" effect using an updated version of the twilight method of Puschnig et al. (2021). Our clear-sky, aging-corrected data reveals short- and long-term (seasonal) variations due to atmospheric changes. To assess long-term anthropogenic NSB trends, we establish an empirical atmospheric model via multi-variate penalized linear regression. Our modeling approach allows to quantitatively investigate the importance of different atmospheric parameters, revealing that surface albedo and vegetation have by far the largest impact on zenithal NSB. Additionally, the NSB is sensitive to black carbon and organic matter aerosols at urban and rural sites respectively. Snow depth was found to be important for some sites, while the total column of ozone leaves impact on some rural places. The average increase in light pollution at our 11 rural sites is 1.7 percent per year. At our nine urban sites we measure an increase of 1.8 percent per year and for the remaining six intermediate sites we find an average increase of 3.7 percent per year. These numbers correspond to doubling times of 41, 39 and 19 years. We estimate that our method is capable of detecting trend slopes shallower/steeper than 1.5 percent per year. arXiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/http://arxiv.org/abs/2210.09177v1

Destination Earth is a high precision digital model of the Earth. It is the EU's flagship initiative to create a digital replica of our entire planet. "This replica is a Digital Twin in fact. It's a gigantic task, that requires the world's biggest computing to create the most precise data to tackle climate change.” That's how Dr. Peter Bauer describes this 7 billion Euro project which he heads. It's part of the EU's Green Deal to tackle climate change and it is meant to provide pinpoint evidence-based support to enable Member States to implement the green transformation. Destination Earth aims to provide the complex software and hardware environment needed for the next generation of very high-resolution prediction models. By 2030, it is expected to have been achieved. DestinE Actors: EU Commission, European Space Agency, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts and European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites Peter Bauer talks about: - How Destination Earth can help the planet to heal - first digitally, then in reality - How to improve our understanding of climate change and enable solutions at global, regional and local level - How to predict where to live safely for the next five decades - What Destination Earth has in common with the Metaverse - Obstacles and finances including the impact of the energy crisis

Tim Palmer is Royal Society Research Professor in Climate Physics, and a Senior Fellow at the Oxford Martin Institute.He is interested in the predictability and dynamics of weather and climate, including extreme events.He was involved in the first five IPCC assessment reports and was co-chair of the international scientific steering group of the World Climate Research Programme project (CLIVAR) on climate variability and predictability.After completing his DPhil at Oxford in theoretical physics, Tim worked at the UK Meteorological Office and later the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts. For a large part of his career, Tim has developed ensemble methods for predicting uncertainty in weather and climate forecasts.In 2020 Tim was elected to the US National Academy of Sciences.Steve, Corey Washington, and Tim first discuss his career path from physics to climate research and then explore the science of climate modeling and the main uncertainties in state-of-the-art models.In this episode, we discuss:00:00 Introduction1:48 Tim Palmer's background and transition from general relativity to climate modeling15:13 Climate modeling uncertainty46:41 Navier-Stokes equations in climate modeling53:37 Where climate change is an existential risk1:01:26 Investment in climate researchLinks:Tim Palmer (Oxford University)https://www.ox.ac.uk/news-and-events/find-an-expert/professor-tim-palmerThe scientific challenge of understanding and estimating climate change (2019)https://www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1073/pnas.1906691116ExtremeEarthhttps://extremeearth.eu/Physicist Steve Koonin on climate changehttps://infoproc.blogspot.com/2021/04/how-physicist-became-climate-truth.htmlMusic used with permission from Blade Runner Blues Livestream improvisation by State Azure.–Steve Hsu is Professor of Theoretical Physics and of Computational Mathematics, Science, and Engineering at Michigan State University. Previously, he was Senior Vice President for Research and Innovation at MSU and Director of the Institute of Theoretical Science at the University of Oregon. Hsu is a startup founder (SafeWeb, Genomic Prediction, Othram) and advisor to venture capital and other investment firms. He was educated at Caltech and Berkeley, was a Harvard Junior Fellow, and has held faculty positions at Yale, the University of Oregon, and MSU.Please send any questions or suggestions to manifold1podcast@gmail.com or Steve on Twitter @hsu_steve.

In this episode of The WeatherPod hosts Alan Thorpe and David Rogers have invited Florence Rabier, Director-General of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts into the studio. This is a special extended episode of The WeatherPod devoted exclusively to ECMWF and the recent publication of its 10-year strategy 2021 to 2030 As many listeners will know, ECMWF is an independent intergovernmental organisation supported by 34 countries, working closely with their national meteorological services. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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And High Powered Radio Towers, tooThe show starts out in the usual way with check ups on the health and happiness of our hosts. Jessi finished a 50-mile race over the weekend, which is admirable, particularly when you consider she was on foot.With a reasonable decent segue, Dan moves the conversation to the topic of this show:  the shiny new ECMWF (European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts) supercomputer. This new system will give them roughly 5x more compute power than their current system. The new box is an Atos BullSequana XH2000AMD fueled by high-end AMD 7742 Epyc processors, which will be the most powerful weather computer in the world. During the conversation we look at the history of ECMWF vendors, discuss the implications on weather forecasts given the power of this new system and the computational difficulties inherent in weather prediction.Why Nobody Should Ever be Online. Ever.This week, Henry tells us about the Microsoft 250 million customer records exposure, but it’s a head fake! Henry explains how this is actually an example of how a company should handle an exploit and how this one wasn’t very bad. The verdict? Clickbait. But still stay offline.Catch of the WeekJessi:  Dominos is using GPUs and AI to drive their production and make their deliveries more efficient. Very cool.Shahin:  Pirelli is making a cyber tire that is sensor enabled and can communicate road conditions to other tires/cars via a 5G network.Shahin dips into his net again to highlight how a fantastically ambitious man built a radio station in Ohio that went from 50 watts to 500 watts, 50k watts, and eventually to 500k watts. See the video in the link and marvel at the ambition, work, and complexity.Henry:  From empty net to a catch that will make Shahin’s catch obsolete, Henry makes a last second save with his story about how contact lenses will give us augmented reality and let us see road temperatures better than our tires will.Dan:  Relates his triumphant but ultimately tragic drone lessons. Henry and Dan relate how they’ve both suffered grievous injuries at the hands of a .49 Cox gas engine.Listen in to hear the full conversation* Download the MP3 * Sign up for the insideHPC Newsletter* Follow us on Twitter * Subscribe on Spotify * Subscribe on Google Play * Subscribe on iTunes * RSS Feed * eMail us

Science is built upon the idea that results can be verified by others. Scientists do their experiments and write up their methods and results and submit them to a journal that sends them to other scientists, who check them and if they pass muster, the study gets published for further scrutiny. One of the keystones of this process is that results can be reproduced. If your results can’t be replicated, something is amiss. Over the last few years, particularly in the field of psychology, many high profile findings have not been reproduced. Now, the same problems that have plagued psychology are spilling over into other areas. This week, a study showed that ocean acidification does not significantly alter fish behaviour, as had been reported several times before. Adam Rutherford discusses the crisis with Matthew Cobb, Professor of Zoology at Manchester University. ESA’s Aeolus mission was launched in August 2018. It’s one of the European Space Agency’s Earth Explorer satellites. The Aeolus satellite uses lasers to monitor the wind by firing an ultraviolet laser beam into the atmosphere and catching the light’s reflection as it scatters off molecules and particles carried along in the air. It was planned to be very much a proof of principle mission, testing the science, with longer-term plans for a whole constellation of wind monitoring satellites. But Aeolus has performed so well in the tests that, unusually for meteorological science, the results are now considered robust enough to be inputted into the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts models. The UK is aiming to phase out conventional combustion engines in favour of more energy-efficient, less polluting electric vehicles by 2040. In response to a listener’s question on the cleanliness of these machines, BBC Inside Science reporter, Tristan Varela, conducts an investigation in the streets, garages, and laboratories of London. He finds that electric cars are relatively clean in the UK, where energy generation from renewable sources has recently overtaken fossil fuels. However, sales of new electric cars are still heavily outweighed by large, fossil fuel hungry, SUVs. But some people are instead converting existing cars to make their vehicles more environmentally-friendly. Producer - Fiona Roberts

Earlier this year I visited the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, a European organization that produces global weather forecasts and performs research on how to improve those. The episode has three parts. First, Hilda Carr gives us an overview of the organization, its purpose and its history. Then I talk with Peter Bauer about weather and climate modeling and about encoding these models efficiently in software programs that run on supercomputers. Part three is a conversation with Tony McNally about where the ECMWF gets its data and how it is continuously fed into the "running" model.

Earlier this year I visited the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, a European organization that produces global weather forecasts and performs research on how to improve those. The episode has three parts. First, Hilda Carr gives us an overview of the organization, its purpose and its history. Then I talk with Peter Bauer about weather and climate modeling and about encoding these models efficiently in software programs that run on supercomputers. Part three is a conversation with Tony McNally about where the ECMWF gets its data and how it is continuously fed into the "running" model.

Data provided by the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), implemented by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts on behalf of the EU, showed that the global-average temperature for June 2019 was the highest on record for the month. The data showed European-average ​temperatures for June 2019 were more than 2C above normal and temperatures were 6-10C above normal over most of France, Germany and northern Spain during the final days of the month, according to C3S. == MagellanTV – a brand-new streaming service that features the very best collection of space and science documentaries available anywhere. The service includes over 1500 documentary movies, series, and exclusive playlists, designed with you in mind. Check out their space genre and explore the solar system like never before. Claim first your two-month free trial, only available at magellantv.com/spacenewspod --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/space-news/support

El Niño is releasing vast quantities of heat normally stored in the Pacific, causing floods, droughts and fires. Adam Rutherford discusses the latest with our El Niño expert Roland Pease. This weather event arrives every 2-7 years but it's hard to work out how profound it will be. Back in May last year, the Met Office climate scientist Adam Scaife correctly predicted an El Niño. He returns to give an overview of this phenomenon. How does an altered weather pattern in the Pacific end up altering the weather in Cumbria. Tim Stockdale at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts and Richard Allan at Reading University explain the science behind the current events. The rains are coming to drought-ridden California as a result of El Niño. Jack Stewart explains why this is not entirely a good thing. Professor Sue Page from Leicester University and Professor Martin Wooster from KCL study the Indonesian fires exacerbated by an El Niño event. They describe the devastating effects of these fires. An estimated 15,000 death can be attributed to the previous El Niño burning and it has added 300 million tonnes of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.

For every forecast meteorologist, several components are required for composing an accurate forecast. One of the major facets of the accurate forecast is that of the forecast model. Forecast models give meteorologists an eye into how future weather conditions might occur. Dr. Alan Thorpe, the Director General of the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, explains what weather models, how they work, and how they are utilized.