Deeply in love with mountain environments. Hydrology, climatology, global environmental change, climate impacts. IPCC WGI AR7 Review Editor & AR6 Lead Author.

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Joined May 2011
Daniel RuizCarrascal retweeted
New paper from our group in the Journal of Open Source Software: the Julia package WhereTheWaterFlows.jl by Mauro Werder and Christophe Ogier computes where water flows on elevation models and underneath glaciers, including uncertainty estimates.
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Daniel RuizCarrascal retweeted
Last Friday evening (16 October), I suspended the 65th Plenary Session of the IPCC in Addis Ababa. The work of this Plenary hasn’t finished. We will reconvene the plenary at the earliest opportunity. Read more: ⬇️
Statement by the @IPCC_CH Chair Jim Skea on suspension of the 65th Plenary Session of the IPCC Read the full statement online here: lnkd.in/ev6Y2wmp
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Daniel RuizCarrascal retweeted
🧊 Two giant icebergs drift north through the South Atlantic. 🇦🇶 🛰️ #CopernicusEU Sentinel-1, -2 & -3 track A81 (1,340 km²) & D32 (106 km²), from calving in Antarctica to their journey across the Southern Ocean. 🔗 link.europa.eu/HHtW6g #ImageOfTheDay
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Daniel RuizCarrascal retweeted
Environmental scientists and Earth systems researchers monitor environmental change and analyze planetary conditions to develop data-driven solutions to our most pressing sustainability challenges. sps.columbia.edu/news/advanc…
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Swiss glaciers lost 5% of their ice in 2026, accdg to GLAMOS. Their total volume has shrunk by nearly 20% in the last 5 years. This echoes the WMO’s #StateOfWater 2025 report, which found that every glaciated region on Earth lost ice in the last 5 years. bit.ly/WMOStateOfWater2025pr
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Subglacial landforms as proxy for offshore freshened groundwater in formerly glaciated margins dlvr.​it/TVyDKV
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Daniel RuizCarrascal retweeted
Since 2025, ICIMOD has established the Hindu Kush-Himalayan Futures Forum (H2F2), an informal but influential think-tank of eminent diplomats, academics, and experts drawn from ICIMOD’s member countries to provide high-level strategic advice and thought leadership. The 2026 edition, its second chapter, has begun today in Pokhara, Nepal (15 to 18 October 2026), exploring pathways to strengthen regional cooperation and advance regional leadership. In just the past few weeks, Nepal has witnessed devastating mountain disasters. The catastrophic Bhote Koshi flood in Rasuwa and the recent Budhi Gandaki flood in Gorkha have demonstrated how cascading hazards involving glaciers, rockfalls, landslides, water, and sediment are becoming increasingly destructive in our mountains.
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Daniel RuizCarrascal retweeted
A nunatak is the summit of a mountain that protrudes from an ice field or glacier. This 6,955-foot (2,120-meter) horn in the Quartermain Mountains of Antarctica, is one of such peaks: it's know as Pyramid Mountain.
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Daniel RuizCarrascal retweeted
The Congo Basin is one of the few regions where the IPCC has failed to track long-term changes in extreme heat. The problem is a lack of data. To fill this gap, scientists digitized thousands of handwritten records, which reveal the impact of warming. e360.yale.edu/digest/congo-c…
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Daniel RuizCarrascal retweeted
#Isaias has strengthened into a major Category 3 hurricane. Infrared imagery from @NOAA’s #GOESEast (#GOES19) 🛰️ is tracking Isaias as it approaches the northern Gulf Coast, where dangerous conditions are expected—including hurricane-force winds, life-threatening storm surge, flash flooding and possible tornadoes. Latest updates on #HurricaneIsaias: noaa.gov/isaias
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Daniel RuizCarrascal retweeted
BREAKING: Isaias is now a Category 3 hurricane, the first of the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season and the first in the Atlantic Basin since Hurricane Melissa last October. READ MORE: weather.com/2026/10/09/storm…
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Daniel RuizCarrascal retweeted
BREAKING: Hurricane Isaias is now a Category 2 storm and is expected to make landfall along the Gulf Coast Friday night, bringing life-threatening storm surge, damaging winds and flooding rainfall. READ MORE: weather.com/2026/10/08/storm…
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Daniel RuizCarrascal retweeted
Eye of Hurricane Isaias now forming -- rapidly. Dangerous next 24 hours ahead as the hurricane sits over the deep and warm "Loop Currrent" and the same area that powered history's most intense storms. We can only hope for wind shear to retard the intensification.
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Daniel RuizCarrascal retweeted
#Isaias is now a #hurricane - the first of the 2026 Atlantic season. The last season with zero Atlantic hurricanes was 1914. Of course, our observational system is much better now than it was in 1914, so we may have missed hurricane(s) that year.
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Daniel RuizCarrascal retweeted
#HurricaneWarnings and #TropicalStormWarnings are in place along the Gulf Coast from Louisiana to Florida today as #HurricaneIsaias swirls offshore. @NOAA’s #GOESEast (#GOES19) 🛰️ captured this imagery of the cyclone, which is expected to make landfall in the coming days. Latest on #Isaias: noaa.gov/isaias
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Daniel RuizCarrascal retweeted
🌀Have you noticed the National Hurricane Center is testing a new track cone this season? The new experimental graphic draws the cone using ovals (instead of circles) that separate forward speed from left-or-right track errors and cover 90% of possible track outcomes (up from the traditional 67%). Look for "EXPERIMENTAL" in red at the bottom left of the map. What do you think of the new design? Share your feedback: surveymonkey.com/r/ProposedC… Learn more at: nhc.noaa.gov/experimental/co…
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Daniel RuizCarrascal retweeted
Breaking News: Isaias grew into the first hurricane of the Atlantic season and was expected to hit the Gulf Coast as soon as Friday. nyti.ms/4zqJgpX
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Daniel RuizCarrascal retweeted
El Niño continues to strengthen, with a strong-to-very strong El Niño likely through January-March 2027 (remaining greater than an 83% chance). An #ElNino Advisory remains in effect. #ENSO cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/a…
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Daniel RuizCarrascal retweeted
Infrared imagery from @NOAA's #GOESEast (#GOES19) 🛰️ shows newly-formed #TropicalStormIsaias churning in the Gulf. The storm is expected to rapidly strengthen over the next couple of days. Get the latest: hurricanes.gov
4 AM CDT Wed Oct 7 (Advisory 3) Key Messages for Tropical Storm #Isaias. Latest info: hurricanes.gov 4 AM CDT miércoles 7 de octubre (Aviso 3) Mensajes clave sobre la tormenta tropical #Isaias. Más información: hurricanes.gov
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