CLICCS – A cluster of excellence for climate research – Which climate futures are possible and which are plausible?
The Paris climate agreement from December 2015 recognized that the world is warming and that humans are primarily responsible for it. This provided a…
How cold is it under thunderstorms? Measuring cold pools in Hamburg
Scientists at the Universität Hamburg and the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) are measuring a weather phenomenon that we all know well,…
PhD programme celebrates 200 successful graduates
The International Max Planck Research School on Earth System Modelling (IMPRS-ESM) is a PhD programme jointly run by the Max Planck Institute for…
Multiple drivers of the North Atlantic warming hole
A new study in Nature Climate Change, led by Paul Keil of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, uses climate model simulations to identify…
Internal variability dominates short-term surface temperature trends
A new study by Dr Nicola Maher, Dr Flavio Lehner and Prof Jochem Marotzke demonstrates that in the coming 15 years any individual point on the globe…
Extreme summertime heat in a warmer world: where does it come from, and can we avoid it?
In two new publications, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) studied the current and future development of extreme heat…
Multi-year forecasts can predict natural atmospheric CO2 variations
In a new study Aaron Spring and Dr. Tatiana Ilyina, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M), were able to show that the…
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Hartmut Graßl appointed honorary member of the German Meteorological Society
The Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) congratulates its former director, Prof Dr Dr hc mult Hartmut Graßl, for his honorary membership of…
Climate change increases migration at the expense of the poor
A climate game developed by Max Planck researchers shows that global cooperation can be possible – although not without effort.
Bounding Global Aerosol Radiative Forcing of Climate Change
An assessment of Aerosol Radiative Forcing by Nicolas Bellouin, Johannes Quaas and thirty additional co-authors appeared in AGU Advancing Earth and…
The added value of hecto and kilometer scales for climate simulation
A new study by Bjorn Stevens et al. in the Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan describes the added value of kilometer (convective storm…