Nils Brüggemann Appointed Professor at ZMT Bremen
Nils Brüggemann is moving from the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology to the Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research in Bremen to start a…
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…
CELLO: Climate Exploration in Lively Liaison with the Ocean
From September 16 to 18, 2025, around 220 ocean researchers have met at the CELLO conference organized by the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology.…
Climate, Coasts, Complexity: Northern Germany at the Heart of Earth System Modeling
In September, Northern Germany becomes the meeting point for the international Earth System Modeling community. Three high-level scientific events,…
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…
When Neptune nudges dominoes: How the Southern Ocean controls global climate feedbacks
A study by Kang et al. proposes a new hypothesis for the anomalous slowdown in the rate of average global surface warming between 1979 and 2013.…
One more ICON milestone reached
In a joint publication whose author list comprises a substantial fraction of all scientists of the department “The Ocean in the Earth System” at the…
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Only eddy-resolving models capture the complete range of AMOC responses to surface winds
In a new paper, Veit Lüschow, Jin-Song von Storch and Jochem Marotzke from the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology show that the Atlantic meridional…
ICON Ozean Model Atlantic
The first movie shows the result of a simulation with the ocean model ICON-O at a global resolution of 5km, depicting a close-up of the circulation…
Submesoscale telescope experiment
The video shows the visualisation of the “submesoscale telescope experiment” with the ICON ocean model ICON-O. The model was run on a grid with a…
ICON Ocean Model (5 km) Spilhaus projection
The movie shows a simulation of ICON-O at a global resolution of 5km using a Spilhaus projection for the visualization of global ocean model data.
Ocean modelling at MPI-M – from LSG to ICON-O
The Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) has a long tradition of creating general circulation models of the ocean in order to pursue its…