Call for Contributions: km-Scale Global Modelling Summit 2026
The Max Planck Institute for Meteorology and its partners in the WarmWorld project are inviting contributions to the km-Scale Modelling Summit, an…
Nils Brüggemann Appointed Professor at ZMT Bremen
Nils Brüggemann is moving from the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology to the Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research in Bremen to start a…
Surprised by Simplicity: Model Experiments Reveal Rule of Thumb for Carbon-Climate Dynamics
Studying climate change is a very complex challenge, but sometimes simplicity unexpectedly emerges. Researchers have used idealized experiments with…
New ICON Configuration Provides Realistic View of Small-Scale Ocean Eddies
For the first time, scientists were able to study the behavior of eddies measuring just a few kilometers in size in a realistic simulation of the…
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…
Embracing Diversity for the Future of Climate Modeling
What's next for climate modeling? Five internationally recognized female scientists have joined forces to come up with an answer. They argue: Instead…
MPI-M to Be One of the First Users of Europe's Fastest Supercomputer JUPITER
One of the first applications on the new exascale computer JUPITER at Forschungszentrum Jülich will be high-resolution simulations of the climate…
The Precarious Future of Permafrost
The Arctic is heating up particularly fast as a result of global warming – with serious consequences. The widespread permafrost in this region, where…
Tatiana Ilyina Receives Nansen Medal
The Fridtjof Nansen Medal, one of the most important prizes for oceanography, will be awarded to Tatiana Ilyina, Professor at the University of…
A New Generation of Models for Kilometer-Scale Climate Projections
Imagine a future where climate science offers the appropriate tools to predict and thus help mitigate the impacts of climate change. This future is…
What happens after a snowball Earth melts?
When a snowball Earth deglaciates, the planet transitions rapidly into a hot "supergreenhouse" climate that persists for a hundred thousand years or…
Coupled climate models systematically underestimate the radiation response to surface warming
Do climate models realistically represent the coupling between Earth’s surface warming and the top-of-the atmosphere radiation? Dirk Olonscheck,…