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Historic navigation set on a wooden table: A golden sextant, a compass, and old illustrated pages showing sailing ships with the German title "Schiffstypen" are placed on dark wood.

Climate data from ship logs: Interdisciplinary project receives funding from the Volkswagen Foundation

Historical logs from ships involved in the transatlantic slave trade also contain information about past climate conditions. Two climate researchers…

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ORCESTRA: Half-time for the tropical cloud experiment

MPI-M researchers and their partner institutions are currently performing atmospheric measurements over the equatorial Atlantic with eight…

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Summer research and discoveries: International Visiting Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg

It’s not just the people of Hamburg and the many tourists who know that Hamburg is particularly beautiful in the summer. The Max Planck Institute for…

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Atmospheric data treasure for the trade wind region collected, processed, and made available

Thirteen scientists from Germany, France and the United States collaborated to collect measurements and process them into a dataset that provides a…