Microbial ecology of the atmosphere

T Šantl-Temkiv, P Amato, EO Casamayor… - FEMS Microbiology …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The atmosphere connects habitats across multiple spatial scales via airborne dispersal of
microbial cells, propagules and biomolecules. Atmospheric microorganisms have been …

The physics of climate variability and climate change

M Ghil, V Lucarini - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2020 - APS
The climate is a forced, dissipative, nonlinear, complex, and heterogeneous system that is
out of thermodynamic equilibrium. The system exhibits natural variability on many scales of …

Persistent anticyclonic conditions and climate change exacerbated the exceptional 2022 European-Mediterranean drought

D Faranda, S Pascale, B Bulut - Environmental Research Letters, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
A prolonged drought affected Western Europe and the Mediterranean region in 2022
producing large socio-ecological impacts. The role of anthropogenic climate change (ACC) …

[HTML][HTML] More frequent, persistent, and deadly heat waves in the 21st century over the Eastern Mediterranean

M Wedler, JG Pinto, A Hochman - Science of the Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Heat waves are extreme events characterized by sweltering weather over an extended
period. Skillful projections of heat waves and their impacts on human mortality can help …

A climate-change attribution retrospective of some impactful weather extremes of 2021

D Faranda, S Bourdin, M Ginesta… - Weather and Climate …, 2022 - wcd.copernicus.org
The IPCC AR6 report outlines a general consensus that anthropogenic climate change is
modifying the frequency and intensity of extreme events such as cold spells, heat waves …

[HTML][HTML] Extreme weather and societal impacts in the eastern Mediterranean

A Hochman, F Marra, G Messori, JG Pinto… - Earth System …, 2022 - esd.copernicus.org
Gaining a holistic understanding of extreme weather, from its physical drivers to its impacts
on society and ecosystems, is key to supporting future risk reduction and preparedness …

Compound hydrometeorological extremes: drivers, mechanisms and methods

W Zhang, M Luo, S Gao, W Chen, V Hari… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Compound extremes pose immense challenges and hazards to communities, and this is
particularly true for compound hydrometeorological extremes associated with deadly floods …

User-defined event sampling and uncertainty quantification in diffusion models for physical dynamical systems

MA Finzi, A Boral, AG Wilson, F Sha… - International …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
Diffusion models are a class of probabilistic generative models that have been widely used
as a prior for image processing tasks like text conditional generation and inpainting. We …

Do Atlantic‐European weather regimes physically exist?

A Hochman, G Messori, JF Quinting… - Geophysical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The subseasonal variability of the extratropical large‐scale atmospheric flow is
characterized by recurrent or quasi‐stationary circulation anomalies, termed weather …

[HTML][HTML] Compound warm–dry and cold–wet events over the Mediterranean

P De Luca, G Messori, D Faranda, PJ Ward… - Earth System …, 2020 - esd.copernicus.org
Abstract The Mediterranean (MED) Basin is a climate change hotspot that has seen drying
and a pronounced increase in heatwaves over the last century. At the same time, it is …