EOS editors highlight paper: Sea-surface carbon patterns linked to large-scale climate modes
Observation-based estimates show the oceanic uptake of carbon dioxide is varying substantially in time, largely driven by the variability in the…

More peat carbon in warm climates
In a ground-breaking study Dr Thomas Kleinen and Prof. Victor Brovkin from the Department "The Land in the Earth System" at the Max Planck Institute…

Rising CO2 has unforeseen strong impact on Arctic plant productivity
In a new study, a team of researchers around Alexander Winkler and Prof Victor Brovkin from the department “The Land in the Earth system” at the Max…

Artificial Intelligence for the Earth system
A new study, published in Nature by German scientists from Jena and Hamburg, with lead author Prof. Markus Reichstein, managing director at the Max…

Large explosive volcanic eruptions outside the tropics influence climate more than assumed
In a study performed within the BMBF-funded MiKlip project ALARM Dr Matthew Toohey from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research in Kiel, Dr Hauke…

Quantifying the Irreducible Uncertainty in Near-Term Climate Projections
Recently, Prof Jochem Marotzke, managing director at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) and head of the department “The Ocean in the…

Great success in the development of the ocean model ICON-O
Peter Korn, scientist in the department “The Ocean in the Earth System” at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M), presents the current…

New study: What would happen to the climate system if Earth turned the other way around?
To further improve our fundamental understanding of the effects of the topography and rotation on the climate, a team of scientists performed and…

New study: Cooling by aerosols weaker and less uncertain
The new study "Rethinking the lower bound on aerosol forcing" in the Journal of Climate, written by Prof. Bjorn Stevens, director at the Max Planck…

The hiatus in global temperature trends: No systematic error in climate models
Observations suggest a hiatus in global surface temperature since 1998, whereas most climate models simulate continued warming. What causes this…

Plant diversity may affect climate-vegetation interaction
In a new study, published in Nature Geoscience, Prof. Dr. Martin Claussen, director of the department "The Land in the Earth System" at the Max…