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Evangelos Tyrlis takes on professorship in Athens
Dr Evangelos Tyrlis, research scientist in the department "The Ocean in the Earth System" of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M), has…
Fluid physics, turbulence and vegetation modeling: Martin Claussen and his research interests
After 16 years as Professor of Physical Meteorology at Universität Hamburg and as Director at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M), Prof.…
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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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Future methane concentration underestimated in climate change scenarios
In a new study in Environmental Research Letters Dr Thomas Kleinen and Prof Victor Brovkin, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology…
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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…
Are midlatitude weather and climate influenced by Arctic Amplification?
Many factors and regions can influence how the weather and the climate of the mid-latitudes may change under global warming. Particularly the…
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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Variational data assimilation – one problem less
In a new study in the Journal of Nonlinear Science Dr Peter Korn, scientist and group leader in the department “The Ocean in the Earth system” at the…
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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…
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Past abrupt changes provide evidence of cascading tipping points and ‘early warning signals’ in the Earth system
Can climate change result in a collapse in parts of the Earth system, what impacts would these events have on society, and can they be predicted? In…
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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)…
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Waves and coherent flows in the tropical atmosphere: new opportunities, old challenges
In a review article appearing in the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, Dr. Claudia Stephan (Max Planck Institute for…