@micheltsamados
Physicist, Associate Professor at CPOM, @ES_UCL. Study climate of polar regions. Also dynamics of complex systems. Main current interest : sea ice. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/earth-sciences/people/academic/dr-michel-tsamados
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Another good video on forced and free motion with nice analogies between basketball 🏀 and ocean physics 🌊 #GEOL0022 by the excellent Tyler Fairbairn
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEEH...
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Happy New Fear!
The new Private Eye is out now.
Line graph time series of monthly mean surface temperature anomalies for the Arctic region only. Every month is shown from 1940 to 2025. There is a long-term warming trend in all months of the year.
Line graph time series of monthly mean surface temperature anomalies for the Antarctic region only. Every month is shown from 1940 to 2025. There is a long-term warming trend in all months of the year, but less obvious than the other regions.
Comparison of monthly temperature anomalies in the #Arctic versus the #Antarctic so far in 2025 (yellow lines). The other lines show the monthly anomalies for years from 1940 (blue) to 2024 (red). Note the long-term trends through the color gradient.
Data from @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social ERA5.
One of my highligths of 2025 was to listen to the conference by @cedricvillani.bsky.social and interview him this summer in Crete Hania as part of the #FestumPi series of conferences.
His talk entitled "Is AI the doom of ecology?" is a must watch www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pFT...
#wearethierrybreton back off Donald
Line graph time series of daily Arctic temperatures north of 80°N latitude for every year from 1958 through 2025. There is a long-term warming trend for every day of the year and a clear seasonal cycle. 2025 is currently much warmer than average.
A few days before Christmas and near record high temperatures are occurring around the North Pole in the #Arctic 🎅🥵
Download at zacklabe.com/arctic-tempe...
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I would also argue that in France and Germany the green pressure undermined nuclear industry. Is that fair? Remind me why Nuclear is not a good solution in your opinion. I always felt that the French post second world nuclear path was a good one and never understood why France deviated from this?
"Wave bureau" A short movie for Ocean Physics and Climate Change #GEOL0022 by Fjodors Aleksejevs with amazing photography, music and humour reminding of me of the late David Lynch www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uTB...
This one deserves a price! @es-ucl.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk
Another gem from my wonderful students in Ocean Physics and Climage Change #GEOL0022. This time it is by Ceren Baylan singing an ode to the Gulf Stream with her soothing guitar. Perfect way to start a relaxing week end www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRjS...
"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength"
-- George Orwell (1949)
Very nice to see this merged product available online and your beautiful visualisations
And how many witches we’d be burning.
Our new article explores how @copernicusmarine.bsky.social uses data from EUMETSAT-operated Sentinel-3 satellites to support the ocean sector.
From algae monitoring to sea level & ice forecasts, @mercatorocean.bsky.social’s Pierre-Yves Le Traon explains why these services are vital: bit.ly/4pcwp64
a, Geographic map of the Arctic Ocean with an enlarged view of the study region (black box). The schematic BG is marked by the yellow circle. The BG region is delimited by 130–180° W, 81° N and 300 m isobath (thick purple line), over which area averages (± standard errors) are computed, shown in b–d. The bathymetry from the International Bathymetric Chart of the Arctic Ocean v3 is coloured, with the isobaths of 40, 70, 150, 250, 500 m in grey, and 100 and 300 m highlighted in black. b, The annual mean BG DOT (m). c, The annual mean BG FWC (m) and volume (×104 km3) estimated using the historical hydrographic data (FWC1, magenta) and using the DOT + GRACE data (FWC2, green). d, The annual mean BG thickness anomalies (m) relative to 2003 of the layer from the surface to the top of the cold halocline (yellow), the CHL beneath this (purple) and the sum of the two layers (orange). The standard error, shown by the bars, is the standard deviation divided by square root of the degrees of freedom, where the degrees of freedom for each year (ranging from 12 to 71) are computed using an integral timescale of three days for the hydrographic data and one month for the monthly satellite data. The dashed lines are the linear trends in the early and late periods, and the black lines in b and c denote the linear trends of DOT and FWC1 over the full study period, respectively. The trends were computed using the time series of annual mean variables.
Our paper led by Peigen LIn on the related topic of Arctic Beaufort Gyre fresh water accumulation is available here www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Amazing Ocean Physics and Climate Change #GEOL0022 presentation South Park style by Samirah Khatun...Very timely in view of risks of AMOC tipping if beaufort Gyre Arctic freshwater released to North Atlantic. Any resemblance to real persons is purely coincidental 😅
www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6qt...
Scary stuff showing that the UK is in the range of this AMOC tipping point induced large cooling area! @ucl.ac.uk and the UK is working on this topic with various projects already funded but also in the pipelines.
Is the Atlantic Ocean circulation close to tipping?
Hear the latest science as I presented it last month at the ATLAS25 event in Helsinki.
Let me know if anything is unclear, or if you see good reasons why your government shouldn't immediately act on this. 🌊
youtu.be/ULJXqOZuY-8
Scary indeed! Something to talk about with my ocean physics and climate change class ahead of our lecture on the Thermohaline Circulation 😱 #GEOL0022 @es-ucl.bsky.social
3/3 The role of Arctic freshwater in shaping North Atlantic currents
Supervisors: Alessandro Silvano, Louis Clément, Christine Gommenginger (Southampton), Michel Tsamados (UCL), Margaret Lindeman (Harvard)
Deadline: 8th January 2026
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
2/3 Forecasting the ecosystem and biogeochemical responses to sea ice change in the Southern Ocean
Supervisors: Lavenia Ratnarajah (UCL), Louisa Van Zeeland (Alan Turing Institute), Michel Tsamados (UCL)
Deadline: 14th January 2026
unrisk-cdt.ac.uk/projects/for...
1/3 A lot of people are contacting me to do a PhD in polar remote sensing and modelling. Here are two advertised PhD studentship led by colleagues of mine that are super cool and in collaboration with me and UCL @es-ucl.bsky.social
Line graph time series of monthly mean surface temperature anomalies for the Antarctic region only. Every month is shown from 1940 to 2025. There is a long-term warming trend in all months of the year, but less obvious than the other regions.
Average temperature departures by month in the #Antarctic since the year 1940.
Data from @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social ERA5 reanalysis.
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BBC Under Attack: Pot and Kettle Special
The new Private Eye is out now.
Problem is the big companies and media don't and they make it very clear to our politicians. Lets try and tilt the balance the way of the 99%
One day, when this national nightmare is over and speaking up has no consequences, everyone will claim they were against this.
