Global Carbon Project: Tracking the fate of man-made CO2
After the global average of fossil carbon dioxide emissions dropped significantly in 2020, this year they are again approaching levels before the…
Humidity differences and their effect on the clear-sky radiation budget in global storm-resolving models
In a new study in the Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems Theresa Lang, Dr. Ann Kristin Naumann, Prof. Bjorn Stevens and Prof. Stefan A.…
NextGEMS video clip release
NextGEMS is building prototypes for a new generation of Earth system models to advance science, guide policy, and inform applications to support the…
Nobel laureate and founding director Klaus Hasselmann on his 90th birthday
Prof. Dr. Klaus Hasselmann completed his 90th year of life on October 25, 2021. The Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) warmly congratulates…
Tracking the fate of anthropogenic carbon in the ocean — Modeling the global 13C-Suess effect
Rising fossil-fuel CO2 emissions deplete the atmospheric concentrations of the heavy carbon isotope 13C. This phenomenon, called the 13C Suess…
Variations of tropical lapse rates in climate models and their implications for upper tropospheric warming
In a new study in the Journal of Climate Paul Keil, Hauke Schmidt, Bjorn Stevens and Jiawei Bao from the department “The Atmosphere in the Earth…
Physics Nobel Prize 2021 for Klaus Hasselmann
Klaus Hasselmann, founding Director of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, receives the Nobel Prize in Physics 2021 together with Syukuro…
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.…
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…
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…
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…