Corwin Wright

Corwin Wright

@corwinwright.bsky.social

I like waves. Professor of Atmospheric Remote Sensing @uniofbath.bsky.social. https://corwin365.github.io/

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Simon Lee
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Linking stratosphere–troposphere coupling biases to Annular Mode predictability and midlatitude impacts in subseasonal forecast systems Preprint of our latest @wcrpclimate.bsky.social SNAP project community paper led by Chaim Garfinkel now online doi.org/10.5194/egus...

doi.orgLinking stratosphere–troposphere coupling biases to Annular Mode predictability and midlatitude impacts in subseasonal forecast systemsAbstract. Two-way coupling between the stratosphere and troposphere is an important source of subseasonal  predictability and can open windows of opportunity for improved forecasts. However, operation...

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Leverhulme Trust
@leverhulme.ac.uk

Research on space is crucial; it drives technological advancements, helps understand our planet and the universe better, and motivates the next generation. Highlighting inspiring projects on how we look at and understand Earth and space. #WorldSpaceWeek

Corwin Wright
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Somehow my train (the 0739) is essentially the only thing running out of Didcot this morning (I think there's a gas leak somewhere just slightly downstream in the London direction). Hopefully it'll be fixed in time for me to go home tonight...

Corwin Wright
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I knew my email volume had got worse over the last few years, but I've now made the error of crunching the numbers. This year I have received ~1000 emails/month (and sending ~600) or, as an alternative way of thinking about it, involved in a rolling total ~700 email threads/month. Ugh.

Corwin Wright
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I'm at a restaurant in Wroclaw and every time the waiter gives me something he just says "you're welcome". It's clearly a badly-matched translation of a Polish expression and he's just being polite, but it sounds just beautifully passive-aggresive in English.

Corwin Wright
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As part of a larger team, the postholder will use a range of observational and model techniques to study atmospheric gravity waves, with the aim being to start merging together different observations (in a careful and accurate way) so we can better constrain atmospheric models.

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Looking forward to working with this exciting data! :-)

The University of Bath@uniofbath.bsky.social

University of Bath researchers from the Centre for Climate Adaption and Environment Research (CAER) have joined NASA’s next-generation satellite mission to unlock insights into our atmosphere, helping to predict extreme weather, track pollution and monitor the ozone layer: https://bit.ly/4vj0Zx2

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The University of Bath
@uniofbath.bsky.social

University of Bath researchers from the Centre for Climate Adaption and Environment Research (CAER) have joined NASA’s next-generation satellite mission to unlock insights into our atmosphere, helping to predict extreme weather, track pollution and monitor the ozone layer: https://bit.ly/4vj0Zx2

Corwin Wright
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This is one of the best posters I have ever seen.

Leigh Jones@leighsus.bsky.social

I have such an expertly curated algorithm that I'm seeing posts from Mexican street food restaurants in the US and this is how they're advertising the game tomorrow night. "Good vibes"

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Leigh Jones
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I have such an expertly curated algorithm that I'm seeing posts from Mexican street food restaurants in the US and this is how they're advertising the game tomorrow night. "Good vibes"

Corwin Wright
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Someone else needed overhead locker space, and the flight attendant seems to think this is a good plan (I'm on the front row, so there's no underseat space in front of me). I am rather surprised at this.

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KetAnthropic JoshAI
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NEW BLOG FOR YOU Google's energy consumption numbers in their new climate report are mind-blowing. 2 years ago they flipped from linear to exponential growth, and their climate impact is blowing out, too. A WILD testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI: ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...

Corwin Wright
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As an example, this figure shows the magnitude and direction of the time-mean momentum flux - the models are all different from both each other and the obs, highlighting their different internal physics and the challenges of reproducing real-world GWs in a model

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I won't list all the results here as there are many - it's a rich dataset, which took a lot of work to explore. A senior colleague we sent a preprint copy to described it as "a very important paper", so hopefully others feel the same way :-) Here's the link again: acp.copernicus.org/articles/26/...

acp.copernicus.orgStratospheric gravity waves in three high-resolution models and AIRS satellite observationsAbstract. Advances in computational power and model development have enabled the generation of global high-resolution models. These new models can resolve a large proportion of gravity waves (GWs) exp...
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We spectrally analyse both the real and synthetic waves to assess their properties, then compare them to see how well the models perform. (I made the original version of this figure for the fellowship proposal that started my career, so I'm glad we finally wedged a version of it into a paper...)

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This method lets us do loads of careful analysis and learn a lot about how well the models do - this figure shows a 1:1 comparison between the obs (left) and the models for a wave observed in the first day of the run before the conditions diverged between them.

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In it, we take three high-res (3-5km) weather model runs archived by DYAMOND, apply techniques we've developed over the last few years to reproduce data from the AIRS satellite as closely as possible, then use a CNN-based wave detection mask to study just the GWs like-for-like with the real obs.

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🇨🇦JOY 🇨🇦
@joycomes.bsky.social

Peacock Spider (genus Maratus), a group of tiny Australian jumping spiders famous for their vibrant colours and elaborate courtship dances to attract its mate. They are very tiny in size only between 2-5 millimetres ( the size of a pea)

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International Space Science Institute (ISSI)
@issibern.ch

ISSI International Team #634, “WAVE-GAP – Watching Atmospheric Variability Evolve in the Global Absence of Satellite Platforms?”, led by M. Bramberger and C. Wright, is identifying present and future gaps in atmospheric wave observations and modelling. 🛰️🔭

Corwin Wright
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Behold our new @issibern.ch team working on bridging the forthcoming gap in high-resolution satellite dynamics observations, and also a lovely mural which while not new to ISSI is new to me. Sadly missing Clara Orbe, who is joining us online.

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Today!

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On Wednesday at 10.45, Juli Jaen will be presenting in the MLT dynamics session on "Long-term Observations of Gravity Wave Energy and Momentum Fluxes in the Middle Atmosphere from SABER/TIMED satellite" (EGU26-3063) with some interesting results on wind and #GravityWaves (just let it happen) trends

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Finally, on Friday Lina Lucas (also at her first conference) presents a Pico on "Investigating equatorial waves with high-density ROMEX GNSS-RO observations" (EGU26-17588). ROMEX is an amazing dataset, and she's got some *really* exciting high-resolution tropical planetary-scale dynamics out of it.

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I think that's all from us this time - but it's probably enough ! Hope to see some of you there, and looking forward to interesting discussions on our results - it's very exciting to me that they span from the surface (TeamX) all the way to the edge of space (Keystone) covering every layer between.

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Corwin Wright
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On Wednesday at 10.45, Juli Jaen will be presenting in the MLT dynamics session on "Long-term Observations of Gravity Wave Energy and Momentum Fluxes in the Middle Atmosphere from SABER/TIMED satellite" (EGU26-3063) with some interesting results on wind and #GravityWaves (just let it happen) trends

Corwin Wright
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Then on Thursday, Dan Gerber presents at 10am in the MLT dynamics session on "Keystone: a novel terahertz limb-sounding mission advancing chemistry, dynamics, and vertical coupling in the MLT" (EGU26-22391) - this is an ESA EE12 candidate mission we've spent a lot of time on, and we'd love feedback.

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In the same session we also have a poster by Yen-Sen Lu of @fz-juelich.de, coauthored with me and Neil Hindley at Bath, on "Sensitivity Analysis of Gravity Wave Characteristics to Physical Parameterization Options in WRF Simulations : A Case Study of Typhoon Soudelor (2015)" (EGU26-20004)

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Finally, in the #GravityWaves (I'll make it happen...) oral session at 16:15 we have some idiot (me) presenting work by my former PhD student Peter Berthelemy (now at SMHI) on "Lead-time independence of gravity-wave forecast skill in operational analysis and forecasts" (EGU26-20048)

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First, Adam Hayes will be presenting "Denoising Stratospheric Nadir Sounder Observations using a Machine Learning Technique for Gravity Wave Detection " (EGU26-9749) at his first conference. We've got some pretty promising preliminary results, and he has a smartphone game ready for anyone visiting!

Corwin Wright
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First up, Tim Banyard will be giving a talk on Tuesday at 11.10 on "Dual Radiosonde Soundings of Gravity Wave Breaking over the Alps during the 2025 Winter TEAMx Observational Campaign" (EGU26-22391 ), showing some fascinating first results from our #TeamX fieldwork last year.

Corwin Wright
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Heidelberg is definitely a university town: I just saw a bunch of people in their early 20s trying to unsuccessfully manoeuvre a large fridge into a small old-but-not-in-the-good-way car.