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Substantial biases persist in CMIP6 simulations of tropical precipitation

A group of scientists mostly from the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) studied the representation of tropical precipitation by models…

Figure: Simulated change in storm surge height of a statistically expected storm surge every 50 years relative to the respective mean sea level.

Global warming leads to higher storm surges in the German Bight

A new study in Climate Dynamics by Andreas Lang and Uwe Mikolajewicz from the Department "The Ocean in the Earth System" at the Max Planck Institute…

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Internal variability dominates short-term surface temperature trends

A new study by Dr Nicola Maher, Dr Flavio Lehner and Prof Jochem Marotzke demonstrates that in the coming 15 years any individual point on the globe…

Global mean surface temperature (GMST) simulated by Max Planck Institute Grand Ensemble.

Extreme summertime heat in a warmer world: where does it come from, and can we avoid it?

In two new publications, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) studied the current and future development of extreme heat…

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Multi-year forecasts can predict natural atmospheric CO2 variations

In a new study Aaron Spring and Dr. Tatiana Ilyina, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M), were able to show that the…

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The added value of hecto and kilometer scales for climate simulation

A new study by Bjorn Stevens et al. in the Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan describes the added value of kilometer (convective storm…

Figure: Natural net emissions of methane in the present-day climate.

Natural methane emissions – from the glacial to the present

In a new study in Climate of the Past Dr Thomas Kleinen, Uwe Mikolajewicz, and Prof Victor Brovkin, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for…

Photo: Half of mankind is living next to the coast. Sea level rise can become a risk.

Using sea-level rise to define climate targets

One major consequence of global warming is the rising sea level. A study conducted at Universität Hamburg’s Cluster of Excellence for climate…

Risky Cooling | Dr Ulrike Niemeier

Volcanoes are sources of ideas. When they erupt, they emit large amounts of sulfur dioxide, cooling the climate.

POST FROM: Barbados, Caribbean | Theresa Lang

Theresa Lang from the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology spent around two weeks on the Caribbean island of Barbados for the cloud research project…

A CERN for Climate Change

In a Perspective article appearing in this week's Proceedings of the (USA) National Academy of Science (PNAS), Prof Tim Palmer (University of Oxford,…

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HALO as a cloud observatory: the NARVAL expeditions

Aircrafts have long been used to sample clouds, now the German research aircraft HALO (High-Altitude LOng-Range) has been configured as a mobile…

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