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…
Climate feedback to stratospheric aerosol forcing: the key role of the pattern effect
In a recent study Moritz Günther, Hauke Schmidt, Claudia Timmreck (all MPI-M), and Matthew Toohey (University of Saskatchewan) argue why the cooling…
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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…
Federal Minister Stark-Watzinger visits MPI-M and DKRZ
An autumn tour of Germany's scientific landscape also took the Federal Minister of Education and Research, Bettina Stark-Watzinger, to Hamburg on…
The conundrum of forest expansion after the last ice age
How fast the Northern Hemisphere forest macro ecosystem tracks strongly warming climates such as projected for the near future is largely unknown. In…
Technical milestone reached: global Earth system simulations with 1.2 km resolution
The Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) has opened a new chapter in Earth System Modelling that has been a dream for climate scientists and…
Earth´s orbit and greenhouse gas concentrations influence African humid periods
In a new study, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology have investigated what caused African humid periods to vary in duration and…
One of a kind in Germany: New high-performance computer for Earth system research inaugurated
A new supercomputer named “Levante” was inaugurated at the German Climate Computing Center (DKRZ) on 22 September 2022. For the Max Planck Institute…
Federal Order of Merit for Klaus Hasselmann
Prof. Klaus Hasselmann, founding director of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) and Nobel Laureate in Physics 2021, was honored with…
Peter Landschützer appointed research director at the VLIZ in Ostend
Dr. Peter Landschützer, scientist in the department "The Ocean in the Earth System" at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) and head of…
Chetankumar Jalihal wins Roddam Family Medal for best PhD thesis
The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) awarded the Roddam Family Medal for the best PhD thesis in 2020 to Dr. Chetankumar (“Chetan”) A. Jalihal, who…
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…