ICON team receives international recognition for groundbreaking achievements in high-performance computing
A team led by the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology and the German Climate Computing Center has received the prestigious Gordon Bell Prize for…
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,…
Climate Data from Ship Logs: Interdisciplinary Project Receives Funding from the Volkswagen Foundation
Historical logs from ships involved in the transatlantic slave trade also contain information about past climate conditions. Two climate researchers…
Multi-Million-Euro Funding Awarded for CLICCS Research
The University of Hamburg’s Cluster of Excellence for climate research CLICCS – “Climate, Climatic Change, and Society” has been honored for its…
MPI-M Celebrates its 50th Anniversary with a Symposium and a Senate Reception
The Max Planck Institute for Meteorology celebrated its 50th anniversary with a festive symposium and a reception at Hamburg City Hall. In addition…
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How to Deal with the 1.5°C Climate Target
In a position paper, the German Climate Consortium, of which the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology is a member, has made recommendations on how to…
How to Make Climate Adaptation a Success
Climate change is forcing people to adapt to changing environmental conditions. But what really makes the difference is how they do it. The recently…
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ORCESTRA: Half-Time for the Tropical Cloud Experiment
MPI-M researchers and their partner institutions are currently performing atmospheric measurements over the equatorial Atlantic with eight…
Weather and Climate Model ICON published under Open Source License
The scientific and research community in Germany and Switzerland is setting a milestone in climate and weather research: Since January 31, 2024, the…
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.…
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New IPCC Assessment Report: Climate change widespread, rapid, and intensifying
How has climate changed up until the present? How will it change in the future? Questions like these are answered in the recently published first…