Rising fossil-fuel CO₂ emissions deplete the atmospheric concentrations of the heavy carbon isotope ¹³C. This phenomenon, called the ¹³C Suess effect, can be used to discern the pathways of anthropogenic carbon in the Earth system. In a new study, Dr. Bo Liu, Dr. Katharina D. Six, and Dr. Tatiana Ilyina investigated the sources of uncertainty in an…

In a new study in the Journal of Climate Paul Keil, Hauke Schmidt, Bjorn Stevens and Jiawei Bao from the department “The Atmosphere in the Earth System” in the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) show how specific features of convection influence tropical lapse rates and upper tropospheric warming.

Klaus Hasselmann, founding Director of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, receives the Nobel Prize in Physics 2021 together with Syukuro Manabe (USA) and Giorgio Parisi (Italy).

Dr Evangelos Tyrlis, research scientist in the department "The Ocean in the Earth System" of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M), has accepted an assistant professorship at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA). He will be an Assistant Professor in Atmospheric Dynamics as of September 2021, but he will keep a close…

The science guiding the field campaign EUREC⁴A (Elucidating the role of clouds-circulation coupling in climate) and its measurements is presented in a recent publication by Prof. Bjorn Stevens, of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) in Hamburg, Dr. Sandrine Bony, of the Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique in Paris, Dr. David Farrell…

In a new study in Environmental Research Letters Dr Thomas Kleinen and Prof Victor Brovkin, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M), together with Dr Sergey Gromov and Dr Benedikt Steil, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry (MPI-C), showed that the changes in methane concentration under future warmer climate…

In an article appearing in AGU Advances, Dr. George Datseris and Prof. Bjorn Stevens provide an analysis of the Earth’s albedo, its surprising symmetry between the two hemispheres, and how clouds make it possible.

In a new study in the Journal of Nonlinear Science Dr Peter Korn, scientist and group leader in the department “The Ocean in the Earth system” at the Max Planck-Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M), investigates one class of data assimilation algorithms, namely variational data assimilation methods.

How has climate changed up until the present? How will it change in the future? Questions like these are answered in the recently published first part of IPCC´s Sixth Assessment Report, which summarizes the scientific facts about climate change. This first part will be supplemented with two more parts in the coming spring, addressing adaptation to…

Can climate change result in a collapse in parts of the Earth system, what impacts would these events have on society, and can they be predicted? In the article published in Nature Geoscience, an international team of natural and social scientists have reviewed abrupt shifts in the Earth's past in order to sharpen their tools for predicting the…