Deforestation Leads to More Extreme Weather Events in the Amazon Region
If the Amazon rainforest were completely cleared, extreme precipitation, heat stress, and high wind speeds would occur more frequently. This is the…
Moisture from the Mediterranean Once Fed Lakes in the Sahara
How could deep lakes have existed in the highest mountain range of the Sahara several thousand years ago? An interdisciplinary research group has…
Southern Ocean Warming Leads to Wetter Pacific Coasts for Centuries to Come
An astonishing teleconnection originating in the Southern Ocean is causing East Asia to face wetter summers and the western USA wetter winters in the…
Rain rather likes dry soils in a next-generation global climate model
In a recent study, Dr. Junhong Lee and Dr. Cathy Hohenegger show that a next-generation climate model exhibits a different relationship between water…
Cloud Clustering Causes More Extreme Rain
New climate model shows more extreme rainfall in the tropics with increased temperatures.
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Sarah M. Kang appointed as new director at Max Planck Institute for Meteorology
Prof. Sarah M. Kang joins the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) as a director on 15 August 2023. Prof. Kang joins the MPI-M from the…
Jule Radtke receives 2023 CFMIP-GASS early career scientist award
Jule Radtke, postdoctoral researcher in the joint CLICCS working group on Drivers of Tropical Circulations of the Max Planck Institute for…
Tracking the partitioning of rain
Can land receive more rain than the ocean? One might think that the obvious answer is “Yes”. But land and ocean are two components of a coupled…
From the Arctic to the tropics: permafrost soils and methane
A new study led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, in collaboration with scientists from the University of Hamburg, shows…
How do the ups control the downs within deep convective clouds?
In convective storms, the air that goes down is almost as important as the air that goes up. These convective downdrafts influence the termination of…
Permafrost hydrology plays an important role in global climate simulations, new study shows
Earth system models exhibit large inter-model differences in the simulated climate of the Arctic and subarctic zone, with varying sea ice…
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…