Zack Labe

Climate Scientist (Atmospheric) at Climate Central | PhD | Sharing data-driven stories | Harrisburg, PA | Views, thoughts, and opinions expressed here are only my own

My research and communication interests coincide with disentangling patterns of climate change from climate variability using data-driven methods. Also, scary movie fan!

#Arctic #ClimateChange #DataViz #MachineLearning #OpenScience #Python #SciComm #Weather #wxMastodon #wxTwitter

My Research: https://zacklabe.com/
My Climate Change Visualizations: https://zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-ice-figures/
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Climate Central: https://www.climatecentral.org/

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Last Notes

2025-09-19 13:25:00 UTC

I hope these posts are useful. Have a great weekend! Here's your Friday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the 15th lowest on record (JAXA data)...
• about 270,000 km² above the 2010s mean
• about 860,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 1,990,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 2,680,000 km² below the 1980s mean
More graphics: https://zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-ice-extentconcentration/
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2025-09-14 13:35:26 UTC

Globally, August 2025 ranked as the third hottest ever recorded. It was also separately the 4th warmest August for global land areas and the 3rd warmest for global ocean areas.
+ Data by NOAAGlobalTemp v6.0.0: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/land-based-station/noaa-global-temp
+ Monthly summary: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monitoring/monthly-report/global/202508
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2025-09-10 12:07:37 UTC

⚠️ While extent will not be setting any annual minimum records this year, the average thickness of #Arctic sea ice is actually at historic lows for this time of year (in the dataset by PIOMAS). Thinner ice is younger and usually more fragile.
More graphics of thickness and volume: https://zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-ice-volumethickness/
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2025-09-04 21:30:34 UTC

More on the latest threats in the weather and climate space… “White House cuts to science funding threaten AI weather forecasting institute.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/white-house-cuts-science-funding-threaten-ai-weather-forecasting-insti-rcna228934

2025-09-01 18:59:45 UTC

Happy start to meteorological fall! We are finally getting into my favorite time of year (fall and winter). Here's a look at the warming of global temperatures during the last four decades in the month of September. 🎃
Data from https://doi.org/10.24381/cds.f17050d7
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2025-08-27 19:53:17 UTC

One way of visualizing the variability and multidecadal decline of July #Arctic sea-ice thickness and sea-ice volume through 2025...
+ Data information (PIOMAS): https://climatedataguide.ucar.edu/climate-data/pan-arctic-ice-ocean-modeling-and-assimilation-system-piomas
https://fediscience.org/system/media_attachments/files/115/102/474/910/830/580/original/5839b4721c74da98.mp4

2025-08-15 11:49:58 UTC

Decadal trends in August sea ice thickness across the #Arctic Ocean, where red shading corresponds to areas of thinning ice. The largest declines are north of Greenland and in the East Siberian, Beaufort, and Chukchi Seas.
Simulated by PIOMAS; https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-17-0436.1
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2025-08-14 13:16:53 UTC

The American Meteorological Society (AMS) State of the Climate Report for 2024 is now published: https://doi.org/10.1175/2025BAMSStateoftheClimate.1
I am happy to have contributed again to this year's issue - see our section in 'The Arctic' chapter: https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-25-0104.1
Another historic year for Earth's climate... 🚨
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2025-07-08 15:36:34 UTC

I can't stress enough how close U.S. science is to the cliff.
"Numbers released in May by the National Science Foundation (NSF) indicate that if Congress approves the cuts to the agency proposed by the White House, the number of early-career researchers it supports could fall by 78%" (via https://www.science.org/content/article/it-s-nightmare-u-s-funding-cuts-threaten-academic-science-jobs-all-levels)

2025-05-06 20:08:28 UTC

This is horrible. I don't even know what to say. Some of our most key polar data.
"As a result, the level of services for affected products below will be reduced to Basic—meaning they will remain accessible but may not be actively maintained, updated, or fully supported."
https://nsidc.org/data/user-resources/data-announcements/user-notice-level-service-update-data-products
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