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New Study Provides Empirical Evidence of Human Influence on Regional Climate Change
Climate change is affecting the entire planet—and yet different regions are warming at different rates. Where is human-induced warming already clearly…
Tropical Rain Belt Might First Widen, Then Contract in Response to Climate Change
How will climate change affect the Intertropical Convergence Zone? A new study shows that the response of the tropical rain belt to an increase of…
Around 350 Climate, Computational, and Computer Scientists Attend km-Scale Global Modelling Summit 2026 in Hamburg
Experts from around the world specializing in high-resolution Earth system modeling are currently meeting in Hamburg for the km-Scale Global Modelling…
A Journey Through the Reception History of a Key Oceanographic Publication
In 1961, oceanographer Henry Stommel laid the foundation for understanding thermohaline circulation. In a current special collection of the journal…
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Is this year’s El Niño set to be an especially strong one?
Daniela Matei, a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, answers questions about this climate phenomenon and its consequences.
Three Master’s Students from IISER Pune Join MPI-M for Their Thesis Work
Raghav Kapoor, Steve Padua, and Ashik S. from IISER Pune, India, will be working on their master’s theses at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology…
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ICON Team Receives International Recognition for Groundbreaking Achievements in High-Performance Computing
A team led by the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology and the German Climate Computing Center has received the prestigious Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling for their groundbreaking work at the intersection of climate science and high-performance computing. Their achievement—a landmark simulation of the full Earth system with the ICON model at 1.25-kilometer resolution—overcame a challenge long considered impossible to master.
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