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…
Happy Birthday Barbados Cloud Observatory!
Ten years ago, the department “The Atmosphere in the Earth System”, led by Prof Bjorn Stevens, at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M)…
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Natural methane emissions – from the glacial to the present
In a new study in Climate of the Past Dr Thomas Kleinen, Uwe Mikolajewicz, and Prof Victor Brovkin, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for…
DYAMOND – Next Generation Climate Models
At a very basic level the main job of the climate system is to redistribute energy, specifically solar energy that is received from the sun is…
MPI-M congratulates Hartmut Graßl on his 80th birthday
The Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) warmly congratulates Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. mult. Hartmut Graßl on the occasion of his 80th birthday on…
AQ-WATCH – new EU project to help mitigate air pollution
AQ-Watch (Air Quality - Worldwide Analysis & Forecasting of Atmospheric Composition for Health), a new project in the European Union’s Horizon…
Climate factor clouds — the field campaign EUREC4A intends to answer one of climate science’s great mysteries
From 20 January through 20 February 2020, the EUREC4A (Elucidating the role of clouds-circulation coupling in climate) field study investigated trade…
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Peter Korn has successfully completed his habilitation at the Universität Hamburg
Dr. Peter Korn, scientist and head of the group "Applied Mathematics and Computational Physics" in the department "The Ocean in the Earth System" at…
EUREC4A—an international field study to test hypothesized cloud controlling factors influencing weather and climate
From 20 January through 20 February 2020, the EUREC4A (Elucidating the role of clouds-circulation coupling in climate) field study will investigate…