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.…
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…
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…
Julia Windmiller becomes new group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology
Dr. Julia Windmiller is the new scientific head of the group “Tropical Cloud Observations”. The group collects and uses observational data of…
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Three fellowships for George Datseris
Dr. George Datseris, a scientist previously working in the department “The Atmosphere in the Earth System” at the Max Planck Institute for…
Fairweather cumulus are here to stay after all!
“Eureka!” That is what the Greek scholar Archimedes is said to have exclaimed in delight upon discovering buoyancy. More than 2,000 years later, the…
Observations show: assumption of a large trade cumulus reduction with global warming refuted
The response of trade cumulus clouds to warming is a major uncertainty in climate projections. In the last decade, a hypothesis was developed…
A curious symmetry in the distribution of tropical precipitation
A curious symmetry in the distribution of tropical precipitation is that it rains as much over land as it does over the ocean, in both cases about 3…
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Do clouds amplify global warming? EUREC4A field study tests hypothesized mechanisms
The science guiding the field campaign EUREC4A (Elucidating the role of clouds-circulation coupling in climate) and its measurements is presented in…
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Earth’s albedo and its symmetry
In an article appearing in AGU Advances, Dr. George Datseris and Prof. Bjorn Stevens provide an analysis of the Earth’s albedo, its surprising…
The newest IPCC report – a look behind the scenes
A very personal account by Jochem Marotzke The just-published Assessment Report 6 (AR6) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IPCC has…
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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)…