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Podcast with LeWiBo #5 with theoretical physicist Valerio Lucarini

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6th November 202020th January 2021

Lecturers without Borders 6 Nov 2020 Lecturers without Borders had a chat with Valerio Lucarini, Centre Director and Professor of Statistical Mechanics, on his research on the mathematics of climate…Read More >

New paper – Evaluating the Performance of Climate Models Based on Wasserstein Distance

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17th October 202020th January 2021

Vissio, G., Lembo, V., Lucarini, V. and Ghil, M. (2020) Evaluating the Performance of Climate Models Based on Wasserstein Distance. Geophysical Research Letters, 47 (21). https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020GL089385 Abstract We propose a…Read More >

New paper – Mechanics and thermodynamics of a new minimal model of the atmosphere

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10th October 202020th January 2021

Vissio, G. and Lucarini, V. (2020) Mechanics and thermodynamics of a new minimal model of the atmosphere. The European Physical Journal Plus, 135 (10). 807. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjp/s13360-020-00814-w Abstract The understanding of…Read More >

The physics of climate variability and climate change

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5th August 2020

M. Ghil and V. Lucarini, The physics of climate variability and climate change, Rev. Mod. Phys. 92, 035002 (2020) Link: https://journals.aps.org/rmp/abstract/10.1103/RevModPhys.92.035002 M. Ghil’s interview Press release Article on Phys.org

Paper on the multistability of the climate system

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5th August 2020

V. Lucarini and T. Bódai, Global stability properties of the climate: Melancholia states, invariant measures, and phase transitions, Nonlinearity 33 R59 (2020) Link: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6544/ab86cc

Special Issue “Statistical Mechanics of Climate”

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13th July 2020

Please see the Introduction to the Special Issue “Statistical Mechanics of Climate” published on the Journal of Statistical Physics: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10955-020-02605-0?fbclid=IwAR2IOeYE9CUZbMbt3DrU-PtL_eLNBnQxFKyZvTuhvVm2wmfx6THqbD_ArQk

SIAM Conference Mathematics of Planet Earth 2020 goes online

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13th July 2020

The MPE2020 SIAM conference will be held online on August 3-14 2020, see details here: https://www.siam.org/conferences/cm/conference/mpe20

Much improved climate predictions from statistical mechanics

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13th July 2020

A recent CMPE publication on the use of statistical mechanics for performing climate change predictions: https://phys.org/news/2020-06-climate-statistical-mechanics.html Reference: Lembo, V., Lucarini, V. & Ragone, F. Beyond Forcing Scenarios: Predicting Climate Change…Read More >