W 2 position for Cathy Hohenegger in acknowledgement of her scientific accomplishments
Dr. Cathy Hohenegger was appointed a W 2 position in the department “The Atmosphere in the Earth System” at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology…
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New high-performance computer for Germany´s climate science
On March 03, 2022, the new high-performance computer system for Earth system research "Levante" started its operation at the German Climate Computing…
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What controls the millennial-scale climate variability in simulations of the last deglaciation?
The transition between the last glacial maximum (LGM, about 21,000 years before present) and present, which is referred to as the last deglaciation,…
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Finding attractors of dynamical systems via recurrences
In a publication, recently selected as a Featured Article, in Chaos, Dr. George Datseris (Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M)) and Associate…
The driving forces of the terrestrial carbon cycle predictability
Although the global carbon cycle is predictable to some extent, we know little about the source of the memory in the system. In a study published in…
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A Quantification of Natural Forcing Contributions on Multi-Decadal North Atlantic Temperature Variability over the Past Millennium
In a new study in Geophysical Research Letters Dr. Shih-Wei Fang, Dr. Claudia Timmreck, and Dr. Johann Jungclaus from the Max Planck Institute for…
“Glaciers are the planet’s early warning system”: Ellen Mosley-Thompson and Lonnie Thompson win BBVA Climate Change Award
This year's recipients of the BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Climate Change Category are Prof. Ellen Mosley-Thompson and Prof. Lonnie…
Tatiana Ilyina becoming Co-Chair of Working Group Coupled Modelling in the World Climate Research Program (WCRP)
Dr. Tatiana Ilyina, group leader of the “Ocean biogeochemistry” group in the department “The Ocean in the Earth System”, became co-chair of Working…
Radiosonde measurements of the intertropical convergence zone
On 27 June 2021, the research vessel RV SONNE set off under the cruise guidance of Prof. Peter Brandt from GEOMAR in Kiel and co-leader Dr. Julia…
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Holocene vegetation transitions and their climatic drivers in MPI-ESM1.2
Do we understand the migration of global vegetation patterns over the last millennia during the transition from the mid Holocene some 8000 years ago…
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Curiosity Meets Discovery
It was our turn on 16 December 2021, and Prof. Bjorn Stevens held a talk about “Understanding Climate Science”.
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Atmospheric data treasure for the trade wind region collected, processed, and made available
Thirteen scientists from Germany, France and the United States collaborated to collect measurements and process them into a dataset that provides a…