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 An artist illustration of a ‘snowball Earth’.

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,…

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Collaborative hacking: Max Planck Institute for Meteorology hosts the largest hackathon for Earth system modeling

From March 4 to 8, the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology will be hosting a hackathon for intensive hacking, bug-finding, bug-fixing and lots of…

Photo eruption of volcano Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai

How a volcanic water vapor cloud influences its own transport through the stratosphere

Dr. Ulrike Niemeier and her co-authors have successfully simulated the transport of a volcanic water vapor cloud through the stratosphere. The…

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Max Planck Institute for Meteorology welcomes Hasselmann-fellow Lin Lin

The 2024 Nobel Laureate Fellowship will be awarded to Lin Lin who will start her project in February hosted by the Department Climate Variability. In…

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Weather and Climate Model ICON published under Open Source License

The scientific and research community in Germany and Switzerland is setting a milestone in climate and weather research: Since January 31, 2024, the…

An oscillating wind system in the tropical stratosphere: future evolution and new projections

The “quasi-biennial oscillation” (QBO) is a well-known wind system characterized by alternating layers of westerly and easterly winds encircling the…

Photo: River in rain forest

Tropical wetlands drove methane changes since the last glacial

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

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WarmWorld project at full speed

With the first day of spring we also kick off the full module-team of the BMBF-funded WarmWorld project. Within this project, the Max Planck…

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What the development of global climate models at the km-scale teaches us about tropical convection

Accurately capturing location, diurnal as well as seasonal variability of the tropical rainbelt, over land and over ocean, has remained beyond reach…

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The first release of ICON-Sapphire, targeting simulations of the Earth System at kilometer scale

Do thunderstorms in the atmosphere affect the meandering of ocean currents? What is the effect of ocean eddies on the carbon budget? Investigating…

Original NASA Blue Marble photo left, visualization right. Credit: MPI-M, DKRZ, NVIDIA

Revisiting the Blue Marble: ICON simulating the coupled climate system at 1 km

The early 1970s is often associated with the birth of the modern environmental movement. In 1970 the first Earth day was celebrated, and Greenpeace…

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