Wait. What? Gutting GFDL?
"The possible elimination of the lab, called GFDL, in concert with potential cuts to other NOAA operations, threatens irreparable harm not only to global understanding of climate change and long-range scenarios for the planet but to the country’s safety, competitiveness and national security."
White House Proposal Could Gut Climate Modeling the World Depends On
Potential funding cuts for NOAA and its research partners threaten irreparable harm not only to climate research but to American safety, competitiveness, and national security.
www.propublica.org
April 24, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Wait. What? Gutting GFDL?
You can explore other visualizations that NOAA/GFDL has to offer here.
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March 8, 2025 at 6:07 PM
You can explore other visualizations that NOAA/GFDL has to offer here.
www.gfdl.noaa.gov/visualizatio...
www.gfdl.noaa.gov/visualizatio...
Hi - I'd like to share this story of what is happening at NOAA GFDL, where some of my colleagues and I worked until the mass firings at NOAA last week.
"...the birthplace of weather and climate forecasting"
"...the birthplace of weather and climate forecasting"
NOAA firings hit the birthplace of weather and climate forecasting
Dismissed researchers were improving severe weather predictions
www.science.org
March 5, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Hi - I'd like to share this story of what is happening at NOAA GFDL, where some of my colleagues and I worked until the mass firings at NOAA last week.
"...the birthplace of weather and climate forecasting"
"...the birthplace of weather and climate forecasting"
Proposed NOAA budget zeros out ALL climate laboratories and cooperative institutions.
GFDL, NSSL, GML, etc.
This appears to also end the US greenhouse gas sampling network, including at Mauna Loa, the oldest continuous carbon dioxide monitoring site on Earth.
www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul...
GFDL, NSSL, GML, etc.
This appears to also end the US greenhouse gas sampling network, including at Mauna Loa, the oldest continuous carbon dioxide monitoring site on Earth.
www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul...
June 30, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Proposed NOAA budget zeros out ALL climate laboratories and cooperative institutions.
GFDL, NSSL, GML, etc.
This appears to also end the US greenhouse gas sampling network, including at Mauna Loa, the oldest continuous carbon dioxide monitoring site on Earth.
www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul...
GFDL, NSSL, GML, etc.
This appears to also end the US greenhouse gas sampling network, including at Mauna Loa, the oldest continuous carbon dioxide monitoring site on Earth.
www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul...
For the lecture on ocean circulation, I show my students this sea surface temperature simulation from NOAA/GFDL, where scientists were fired recently.
You see the major surface current systems, like the Agulhas current, Brazil current, Gulf Stream, Pacific Equatorial current, and Kuroshio current.
You see the major surface current systems, like the Agulhas current, Brazil current, Gulf Stream, Pacific Equatorial current, and Kuroshio current.
March 8, 2025 at 6:03 PM
For the lecture on ocean circulation, I show my students this sea surface temperature simulation from NOAA/GFDL, where scientists were fired recently.
You see the major surface current systems, like the Agulhas current, Brazil current, Gulf Stream, Pacific Equatorial current, and Kuroshio current.
You see the major surface current systems, like the Agulhas current, Brazil current, Gulf Stream, Pacific Equatorial current, and Kuroshio current.
We're starting in 20 minutes! Our opening lineup includes:
@adamsobel.bsky.social
Jen Kay (UC Boulder)
@zacklabe.com
@ametsoc.org
@drjeffmasters.bsky.social
@solilyquy.bsky.social
Nadir Jeevanjee (NOAA GFDL)
Abby Swann (UW)
Join us here: wclivestream.com/watch
@adamsobel.bsky.social
Jen Kay (UC Boulder)
@zacklabe.com
@ametsoc.org
@drjeffmasters.bsky.social
@solilyquy.bsky.social
Nadir Jeevanjee (NOAA GFDL)
Abby Swann (UW)
Join us here: wclivestream.com/watch
🚨 We begin our 50-hour broadcast today at 4pm 🚨
It's a showcase of incredible people and their phenomenal work- a celebration of the scientific community 🧪, defined broadly
Use this link to subscribe to our YouTube channel and you'll get notified when we're live: wclivestream.com/watch
It's a showcase of incredible people and their phenomenal work- a celebration of the scientific community 🧪, defined broadly
Use this link to subscribe to our YouTube channel and you'll get notified when we're live: wclivestream.com/watch
June 1, 2026 at 7:40 PM
We're starting in 20 minutes! Our opening lineup includes:
@adamsobel.bsky.social
Jen Kay (UC Boulder)
@zacklabe.com
@ametsoc.org
@drjeffmasters.bsky.social
@solilyquy.bsky.social
Nadir Jeevanjee (NOAA GFDL)
Abby Swann (UW)
Join us here: wclivestream.com/watch
@adamsobel.bsky.social
Jen Kay (UC Boulder)
@zacklabe.com
@ametsoc.org
@drjeffmasters.bsky.social
@solilyquy.bsky.social
Nadir Jeevanjee (NOAA GFDL)
Abby Swann (UW)
Join us here: wclivestream.com/watch
The GFDL model, which was NOAA's premier regional tropical cyclone model for over a decade.
June 30, 2025 at 9:42 PM
The GFDL model, which was NOAA's premier regional tropical cyclone model for over a decade.
The early online release of our new study is out this week! More on this soon! #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1088/1748... @ioppublishing.bsky.social 🎉
Reversal of extreme precipitation trends over the Northeast US in response to aggressive climate mitigation in GFDL SPEAR
Reversal of extreme precipitation trends over the Northeast US in response to aggressive climate mitigation in GFDL SPEAR, Jong, Bor-Ting, Labe, Zachary Michael, Delworth, Thomas, Cooke, William F.
doi.org
March 17, 2026 at 1:33 AM
The early online release of our new study is out this week! More on this soon! #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1088/1748... @ioppublishing.bsky.social 🎉
@jessicayluo.bsky.social is a marine biogeochemist and ecosystem modeler at NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL), where her work focuses on how marine organisms transport carbon from the surface to the deep ocean, and how these dynamics shift under climate change.
February 25, 2026 at 10:40 PM
@jessicayluo.bsky.social is a marine biogeochemist and ecosystem modeler at NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL), where her work focuses on how marine organisms transport carbon from the surface to the deep ocean, and how these dynamics shift under climate change.
It's nice to see that Venkatachalam Ramaswamy, the director of NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) in Princeton, has been elected to the US National Academy of Sciences, just as Trump is trying to eliminate NOAA/GFDL. 🌊🧪
National Academy of Sciences Elects Members and International Members - NAS
WASHINGTON — The National Academy of Sciences announced today the election of 120 members and 30 international members in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original res...
www.nasonline.org
April 30, 2025 at 1:53 PM
It's nice to see that Venkatachalam Ramaswamy, the director of NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) in Princeton, has been elected to the US National Academy of Sciences, just as Trump is trying to eliminate NOAA/GFDL. 🌊🧪
The current administration is taking steps to systematically destroy American scientific capability. Earlier this week, NSF was forced from their headquarters. Now another premier climate science institute, NCAR will be dismantled. NASA GISS and Princeton GFDL have already been hobbled or shut. 🧪
It is hard to overstate how critical @ncar-ucar.bsky.social is to climate science in the US and around the world. It's the beating heart of our field. Generations of scientists have trained there, and almost everyone I know relies on deep collaborations with NCAR scientists. It's end is unthinkable.
Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
December 17, 2025 at 12:11 PM
The current administration is taking steps to systematically destroy American scientific capability. Earlier this week, NSF was forced from their headquarters. Now another premier climate science institute, NCAR will be dismantled. NASA GISS and Princeton GFDL have already been hobbled or shut. 🧪
It’s dispiriting to see the future leaders of climate research at institutions like GFDL fired indiscriminately (...)
Artificial intelligence cannot compensate for a lack of human intelligence
www.science.org/content/arti...
Artificial intelligence cannot compensate for a lack of human intelligence
www.science.org/content/arti...
NOAA firings hit the birthplace of weather and climate forecasting
Dismissed researchers were improving severe weather predictions
www.science.org
March 5, 2025 at 2:53 PM
It’s dispiriting to see the future leaders of climate research at institutions like GFDL fired indiscriminately (...)
Artificial intelligence cannot compensate for a lack of human intelligence
www.science.org/content/arti...
Artificial intelligence cannot compensate for a lack of human intelligence
www.science.org/content/arti...
With the passage of the GOP budget, the U.S. will cut all funding to federal climate labs. No NASA GISS, No NOAA GFDL, etc. There will be tax cuts for the ultra wealthy and more deportation of immigrants. The US abandons science at a time when it is most desperately needed. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🌊🔋
July 4, 2025 at 2:58 AM
With the passage of the GOP budget, the U.S. will cut all funding to federal climate labs. No NASA GISS, No NOAA GFDL, etc. There will be tax cuts for the ultra wealthy and more deportation of immigrants. The US abandons science at a time when it is most desperately needed. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🌊🔋
Imbolc greetings.
Spring is allegedly springing. So maybe it will actually stop raining for a few minutes at some point soon!
Image: GFDL, CC-BY 3.0
Brigid’s cross, woven from rushes and traditionally hung in the home, particularly in Ireland, to protect from fire, illness or other bad luck.
Spring is allegedly springing. So maybe it will actually stop raining for a few minutes at some point soon!
Image: GFDL, CC-BY 3.0
Brigid’s cross, woven from rushes and traditionally hung in the home, particularly in Ireland, to protect from fire, illness or other bad luck.
February 1, 2026 at 11:57 AM
Imbolc greetings.
Spring is allegedly springing. So maybe it will actually stop raining for a few minutes at some point soon!
Image: GFDL, CC-BY 3.0
Brigid’s cross, woven from rushes and traditionally hung in the home, particularly in Ireland, to protect from fire, illness or other bad luck.
Spring is allegedly springing. So maybe it will actually stop raining for a few minutes at some point soon!
Image: GFDL, CC-BY 3.0
Brigid’s cross, woven from rushes and traditionally hung in the home, particularly in Ireland, to protect from fire, illness or other bad luck.
This is great piece by Nadir Jeevanjee (NOAA GFDL) that summarizes five of the fundamental and accurate model-based climate predictions made by Suki Manabe and colleagues at GFDL over the past half century+. 🧪⚒️
theconversation.com/5-forecasts-...
theconversation.com/5-forecasts-...
5 forecasts early climate models got right – the evidence is all around you
From rising global temperatures to the fast-warming Arctic, early climate models predicted the changes half a century ago.
theconversation.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:31 PM
This is great piece by Nadir Jeevanjee (NOAA GFDL) that summarizes five of the fundamental and accurate model-based climate predictions made by Suki Manabe and colleagues at GFDL over the past half century+. 🧪⚒️
theconversation.com/5-forecasts-...
theconversation.com/5-forecasts-...
Good news: A source says NOAA has renewed its cooperative institute with Princeton, which supports GFDL, its world-class weather and climate modeling center.
Funding was set to expire on June 30. Following a trend, Commerce Sec Lutnick approved the renewal at the last minute.
Funding was set to expire on June 30. Following a trend, Commerce Sec Lutnick approved the renewal at the last minute.
June 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Good news: A source says NOAA has renewed its cooperative institute with Princeton, which supports GFDL, its world-class weather and climate modeling center.
Funding was set to expire on June 30. Following a trend, Commerce Sec Lutnick approved the renewal at the last minute.
Funding was set to expire on June 30. Following a trend, Commerce Sec Lutnick approved the renewal at the last minute.
We were designing new future overshoot climate scenarios using large ensembles with the fully-coupled 25-km version of GFDL SPEAR.
This includes introducing a new cost-benefit framework to understand the importance of the timing of enacting climate mitigation on regional extreme weather events.
This includes introducing a new cost-benefit framework to understand the importance of the timing of enacting climate mitigation on regional extreme weather events.
March 12, 2025 at 2:31 PM
We were designing new future overshoot climate scenarios using large ensembles with the fully-coupled 25-km version of GFDL SPEAR.
This includes introducing a new cost-benefit framework to understand the importance of the timing of enacting climate mitigation on regional extreme weather events.
This includes introducing a new cost-benefit framework to understand the importance of the timing of enacting climate mitigation on regional extreme weather events.
We were just starting a collaboration with Princeton Precision Health to explore the intersection between human health and climate through data-driven methods, including AI/ML. A special focus would be to look at both climate prediction and projection timescales using GFDL models and clinical data.
March 12, 2025 at 2:31 PM
We were just starting a collaboration with Princeton Precision Health to explore the intersection between human health and climate through data-driven methods, including AI/ML. A special focus would be to look at both climate prediction and projection timescales using GFDL models and clinical data.
Cleo supports NOAA-GFDL...
...be like Cleo!
...be like Cleo!
April 21, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Cleo supports NOAA-GFDL...
...be like Cleo!
...be like Cleo!
Diagram credit:
Light cone in Minkowski spacetime (World_line.svg)
by K. Aainsqatsi / Jarvisa
CC BY-SA 3.0 + GFDL
→ commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wo...
Light cone in Minkowski spacetime (World_line.svg)
by K. Aainsqatsi / Jarvisa
CC BY-SA 3.0 + GFDL
→ commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wo...
commons.wikimedia.org
June 22, 2026 at 6:52 PM
Diagram credit:
Light cone in Minkowski spacetime (World_line.svg)
by K. Aainsqatsi / Jarvisa
CC BY-SA 3.0 + GFDL
→ commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wo...
Light cone in Minkowski spacetime (World_line.svg)
by K. Aainsqatsi / Jarvisa
CC BY-SA 3.0 + GFDL
→ commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wo...
Der Mittwochsschmetterling,
Canary Islands large white (Pieris cheiranthi).
Allen einen guten Morgen.
By GFDL, CC BY-SA 2.5, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?...
Canary Islands large white (Pieris cheiranthi).
Allen einen guten Morgen.
By GFDL, CC BY-SA 2.5, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?...
August 5, 2026 at 2:45 AM
Der Mittwochsschmetterling,
Canary Islands large white (Pieris cheiranthi).
Allen einen guten Morgen.
By GFDL, CC BY-SA 2.5, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?...
Canary Islands large white (Pieris cheiranthi).
Allen einen guten Morgen.
By GFDL, CC BY-SA 2.5, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?...
Der Freitagsschmetterling,
Australian Painted Lady (Vanessa kershawi).
Allen einen guten Morgen.
By fir0002flagstaffotos [at] gmail.comCanon 20D + Sigma 150mm f/2.8 + Canon MT 24-EX - Own work, GFDL 1.2, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?...
Australian Painted Lady (Vanessa kershawi).
Allen einen guten Morgen.
By fir0002flagstaffotos [at] gmail.comCanon 20D + Sigma 150mm f/2.8 + Canon MT 24-EX - Own work, GFDL 1.2, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?...
June 12, 2026 at 2:33 AM
Der Freitagsschmetterling,
Australian Painted Lady (Vanessa kershawi).
Allen einen guten Morgen.
By fir0002flagstaffotos [at] gmail.comCanon 20D + Sigma 150mm f/2.8 + Canon MT 24-EX - Own work, GFDL 1.2, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?...
Australian Painted Lady (Vanessa kershawi).
Allen einen guten Morgen.
By fir0002flagstaffotos [at] gmail.comCanon 20D + Sigma 150mm f/2.8 + Canon MT 24-EX - Own work, GFDL 1.2, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?...
This is really sad news. NOAA GFDL is one of the world's leading climate modeling centers, home to exceptional scientists. If anyone directly affected needs support, I’m happy to help. www.science.org/content/arti...
NOAA firings hit the birthplace of weather and climate forecasting
Dismissed researchers were improving severe weather predictions
www.science.org
March 4, 2025 at 8:37 PM
This is really sad news. NOAA GFDL is one of the world's leading climate modeling centers, home to exceptional scientists. If anyone directly affected needs support, I’m happy to help. www.science.org/content/arti...
We were developing a new 8-km fully-coupled version of the GFDL SPEAR climate model, which might be used to run future large ensembles for both climate prediction (initialized seasonal/decadal) and projection (uninitialized climate change) applications.
March 12, 2025 at 2:31 PM
We were developing a new 8-km fully-coupled version of the GFDL SPEAR climate model, which might be used to run future large ensembles for both climate prediction (initialized seasonal/decadal) and projection (uninitialized climate change) applications.
The Alexanderplatz demonstration on 4 November 1989 drew between half a million and a million protesters — it was one of the largest demonstrations in East German history.
Image credits: Bernd Settnik • CC BY-SA 3.0 de, Ralf Roletschek • GFDL 1.2, Ralph Hirschberger• CC BY-SA 3.0 de
Image credits: Bernd Settnik • CC BY-SA 3.0 de, Ralf Roletschek • GFDL 1.2, Ralph Hirschberger• CC BY-SA 3.0 de
November 4, 2025 at 8:05 AM
The Alexanderplatz demonstration on 4 November 1989 drew between half a million and a million protesters — it was one of the largest demonstrations in East German history.
Image credits: Bernd Settnik • CC BY-SA 3.0 de, Ralf Roletschek • GFDL 1.2, Ralph Hirschberger• CC BY-SA 3.0 de
Image credits: Bernd Settnik • CC BY-SA 3.0 de, Ralf Roletschek • GFDL 1.2, Ralph Hirschberger• CC BY-SA 3.0 de