Insights into the thermal structure of the tropical troposphere
When you feel the wind on your face, see clouds in the sky, and watch a bird flap its wings in flight, you’re experiencing the troposphere. It is the…
Climate Dynamics research field — a portrait of new director Sarah Kang
When she opens the door to her office and invites you in with a friendly smile, it quickly becomes clear: Sarah Kang is still new at the Max Planck…
The Berlin Summit for EVE: Toward closing the climate information gap
Never before in millions of years has our planet warmed so rapidly as today. A deeply concerning manifestation of this change is the world’s recent…
Fairweather cumulus are here to stay after all!
“Eureka!” That is what the Greek scholar Archimedes is said to have exclaimed in delight upon discovering buoyancy. More than 2,000 years later, the…
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Large-scale research project PalMod: What have we learned?
The PalMod project (short for paleo-modeling), funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), investigates the climate…
The Future of Climate Modeling — the Kilometer Scale
Climate change poses new questions for climate science; questions that cannot be answered by the present generation of climate models. There is no…
Fluid physics, turbulence and vegetation modeling: Martin Claussen and his research interests
After 16 years as Professor of Physical Meteorology at Universität Hamburg and as Director at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M), Prof.…
Are midlatitude weather and climate influenced by Arctic Amplification?
Many factors and regions can influence how the weather and the climate of the mid-latitudes may change under global warming. Particularly the…
The newest IPCC report – a look behind the scenes
A very personal account by Jochem Marotzke The just-published Assessment Report 6 (AR6) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IPCC has…
FESSTVaL: a field campaign targeted to the detection of small-scale weather phenomena
Like a magnifying glass, FESSTVaL will peer into the internal structure of small-scale weather phenomena, with a particular emphasis on summertime…
Ozone, air chemistry, Earth-system science, environmental modeling — researcher portrait Guy Brasseur
The recently published book “The Ozone Layer, From Discovery to Recovery” is a fascinating reading from the discovery of ozone in the 19th century…
Variability of the Earth system over the last 8000 years
After the peak of the last ice age about 21,000 years ago, the great ice masses that had covered large parts of North America and northern Europe…