A new generation of models for kilometer-scale climate projections
Imagine a future where climate science offers the appropriate tools to predict and thus help mitigate the impacts of climate change. This future is…
Summer research and discoveries: International Visiting Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg
It’s not just the people of Hamburg and the many tourists who know that Hamburg is particularly beautiful in the summer. The Max Planck Institute for…
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WarmWorld project at full speed
With the first day of spring we also kick off the full module-team of the BMBF-funded WarmWorld project. Within this project, the Max Planck…
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Large-scale research project PalMod: What have we learned?
The PalMod project (short for paleo-modeling), funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), investigates the climate…
Project EERIE: Ocean eddies for better climate projections
The Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) is successfully involved in the new EU project EERIE (European Eddy-RIch Earth system models).…
NextGEMS video clip release
NextGEMS is building prototypes for a new generation of Earth system models to advance science, guide policy, and inform applications to support the…
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The observed impact of mesoscale vertical motion on tropical clouds
A recent study by Geet George, Bjorn Stevens (both from the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology) and Marcus Klingebiel (now at Leipzig University)…
ESM2025: Earth System Models for the future
ESM2025, an ambitious European project on Earth System Modelling, coordinated by Météo France-CNRM, is now official. The project started on 1 June…
One step closer to a new generation of Earth System Models
NextGEMS, an ambitious European project to develop a new generation of Storm-resolving Earth System Models (SR-ESMs), is now official. On May 28,…
Variability of the Earth system over the last 8000 years
After the peak of the last ice age about 21,000 years ago, the great ice masses that had covered large parts of North America and northern Europe…
How cold is it under thunderstorms? Measuring cold pools in Hamburg
Scientists at the Universität Hamburg and the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) are measuring a weather phenomenon that we all know well,…
Happy Birthday Barbados Cloud Observatory!
Ten years ago, the department “The Atmosphere in the Earth System”, led by Prof Bjorn Stevens, at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M)…