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…
Using sea-level rise to define climate targets
One major consequence of global warming is the rising sea level. A study conducted at Universität Hamburg’s Cluster of Excellence for climate…
Risky Cooling | Dr Ulrike Niemeier
Volcanoes are sources of ideas. When they erupt, they emit large amounts of sulfur dioxide, cooling the climate.
POST FROM: Barbados, Caribbean | Theresa Lang
Theresa Lang from the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology spent around two weeks on the Caribbean island of Barbados for the cloud research project…
The Max Planck Institute for Meteorology Grand Ensemble – an instrument for studying the internal variability of the climate system
During the last 150 years, the increasing atmospheric concentration of anthropogenic greenhouse gases has been the main driver of climate change.…
A CERN for Climate Change
In a Perspective article appearing in this week's Proceedings of the (USA) National Academy of Science (PNAS), Prof Tim Palmer (University of Oxford,…
The importance of global high-resolution climate and weather simulations – ESiWACE
Both scientists from climate and weather science and experts in the field of high performance computing (HPC) are featured in the film.
New study determines Earth's climate sensitivity from recent global warming
In a recent study, Diego Jiménez-de-la-Cuesta Otero from the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology and Thorsten Mauritsen from the Stockholm…
New study: DYAMOND - Next Generation Climate Models
Prof Bjorn Stevens, director at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) and head of the department “The Atmosphere in the Earth System“,…
New study shows highly different responses of surface vs air temperature following deforestation
In a new study published recently in Earth System Dynamics and highlighted in Nature Climate Change, scientists in the department “The Land in the…
Understanding cloud organization from satellite images
In order to better understand cloud structures more than 60 scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) and the Laboratoire…
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HALO as a cloud observatory: the NARVAL expeditions
Aircrafts have long been used to sample clouds, now the German research aircraft HALO (High-Altitude LOng-Range) has been configured as a mobile…