The conundrum of forest expansion after the last ice age
How fast the Northern Hemisphere forest macro ecosystem tracks strongly warming climates such as projected for the near future is largely unknown. In…
Earth´s orbit and greenhouse gas concentrations influence African humid periods
In a new study, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology have investigated what caused African humid periods to vary in duration and…
The driving forces of the terrestrial carbon cycle predictability
Although the global carbon cycle is predictable to some extent, we know little about the source of the memory in the system. In a study published in…
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Holocene vegetation transitions and their climatic drivers in MPI-ESM1.2
Do we understand the migration of global vegetation patterns over the last millennia during the transition from the mid Holocene some 8000 years ago…
New working group on modelling human-environmental interactions in the Anthropocene (HERMITIAN)
At the end of October 2020, the German Committee Future Earth (DKN) approved Prof. Julia Pongratz and Prof. Victor Brovkin to establish a working…
Q-ARCTIC - ERC Synergy Grant for Victor Brovkin
On 5 November 2020 the European Research Council (ERC) announced the groups of scientists, who are awarded a Synergy Grant in the 2020 call for…
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Global temperature modes shed light on the Holocene temperature conundrum
One of the hot topics in climate research is the evolution of the global mean temperature of the last several thousand years, the period from the…
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Smaller land carbon feedback in the new MPI Earth System Model
In two recent studies, scientists of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) analyzed the feedback between CO2 and climate using Earth…
New method for evaluating Earth System Models
In a new study published in Climate of the Past and highlighted by the journal, Anne Dallmeyer, Victor Brovkin and Martin Claussen from the…
Conceptual modeling at MPI-M
The Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) develops complex Earth system and climate models. To investigate and understand processes, the…
More peat carbon in warm climates
In a ground-breaking study Dr Thomas Kleinen and Prof. Victor Brovkin from the Department "The Land in the Earth System" at the Max Planck Institute…
Rising CO2 has unforeseen strong impact on Arctic plant productivity
In a new study, a team of researchers around Alexander Winkler and Prof Victor Brovkin from the department “The Land in the Earth system” at the Max…