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…
Climate Models With High Resolution in the Ocean Can Better Represent European Heat Waves
The North Atlantic significantly influences the weather in Europe. For instance, a cold spell in the subpolar North Atlantic can lead to a heat wave…
New Generation of Climate Models Sheds First Light on Long-Standing Pacific Puzzle
Researchers have long been puzzled by the observed cooling of the eastern tropical Pacific and the Southern Ocean accompanying global warming.…
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…
Independent Research, Institutional Impact
The Max Planck Institute for Meteorology has four group leaders with W2 positions. In addition to their research, they play an important role in the…
Towards resolving internal tides in the ocean
In a recent publication, Prof. Jin-Song von Storch together with other scientists showed that the ocean component of the ICON model is able to…
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…
Cloud Clustering Causes More Extreme Rain
New climate model shows more extreme rainfall in the tropics with increased temperatures.
Testing mechanisms of wave generation in the lower stratosphere using superpressure balloons
Dr. Laura Köhler and Dr. Claudia Stephan from the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology together with their colleague Brian Green, Postdoc at Stanford…
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…
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…
Technical milestone reached: global Earth system simulations with 1.2 km resolution
The Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) has opened a new chapter in Earth System Modelling that has been a dream for climate scientists and…