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Supercomputing 2020 keynote talk: "Climate Science in the Age of Exascale" by Bjorn Stevens

With introduction by SC20 General Chair Christine E. Cuicchi, view the keynote talk at “SC20: The International Conference for High Performance…

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Robust detection of deforestation effects on climate takes decades

Globally, about 22 million square kilometres (Mio km2) of forest have been removed between AD 800 and 2015. This deforestation might double until…

Towards small scale processes in large scale climate models — 3D visualisation of clouds

This visualisation illustrates the vision to simulate small-scale processes explicitly on a global scale, thus reducing the need for parametrisations…

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Clouds and Climate — Climate Science’s Greatest Challenge

Prof. Bjorn Stevens, director and head of the department “The Atmosphere in the Earth System” at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M),…

Geoengineering and climate engineering — master plan against climate change?

“Geoengineering” or “climate engineering” refers to various ideas to mitigate the greenhouse effect through technological solutions. With the help of…

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Q-ARCTIC - ERC Synergy Grant for Victor Brovkin

On 5 November 2020 the European Research Council (ERC) announced the groups of scientists, who are awarded a Synergy Grant in the 2020 call for…

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Global temperature modes shed light on the Holocene temperature conundrum

One of the hot topics in climate research is the evolution of the global mean temperature of the last several thousand years, the period from the…

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Smaller land carbon feedback in the new MPI Earth System Model

In two recent studies, scientists of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) analyzed the feedback between CO2 and climate using Earth…

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Tobias Becker receives Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship

Dr Tobias Becker, scientist in the department „The Atmosphere in the Earth System“ at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M), won a…

ICON Ozean Model Atlantic

The first movie shows the result of a simulation with the ocean model ICON-O at a global resolution of 5km, depicting a close-up of the circulation…

Submesoscale telescope experiment

The video shows the visualisation of the “submesoscale telescope experiment” with the ICON ocean model ICON-O. The model was run on a grid with a…

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Substantial biases persist in CMIP6 simulations of tropical precipitation

A group of scientists mostly from the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) studied the representation of tropical precipitation by models…

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