Lennart Ramme receives Wladimir Köppen Award
Lennart Ramme, a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, has been awarded the Wladimir Köppen Prize, endowed with 5000…
How to make climate adaptation a success
Climate change is forcing people to adapt to changing environmental conditions. But what really makes the difference is how they do it. The recently…
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Solving the Pacific Puzzle: TROPICS workshop meets at MPI-M
Upon invitation by MPI-M Director Sarah Kang, world-renowned climate researchers are currently gathering at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology…
New study sinks an old theory for low-wind equatorial regions
MPI-M-researcher Julia Windmiller overturns a textbook explanation for the low wind speeds that tormented sailing ships in the tropics: Rather than…
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ORCESTRA: Half-time for the tropical cloud experiment
MPI-M researchers and their partner institutions are currently performing atmospheric measurements over the equatorial Atlantic with eight…
Moritz Günther starts postdoctoral position in the German-Israeli Max Planck-Weizmann Programme
The Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) is pleased to announce that Moritz Günther has started a 4-year postdoctoral position in the…
WASCAL Master's Students Attend ORCESTRA Campaign on Climate Research
Five master's students from Ghana, Senegal, Nigeria, Benin, and Guinea, participating in the WASCAL program, had the unique opportunity to gain…
In years to come, the Arctic Ocean will absorb less CO2 than expected
We humans benefit from the oceans’ tremendous capacity to absorb greenhouse gases. Due to the low temperature of the water, the Arctic Ocean absorbs…
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ORCESTRA: Exploring Tropical Clouds and their Impact on Climate
The ORCESTRA started his performance on August 10th in Cap Verde. The PERCUSION gives the beat by flying back and forth across the belt of deep rain…
Summer research and discoveries: International Visiting Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg
It’s not just the people of Hamburg and the many tourists who know that Hamburg is particularly beautiful in the summer. The Max Planck Institute for…
Why stratospheric aerosol disproportionately cools the Indian and western Pacific Ocean
In a new study Moritz Günther, Hauke Schmidt, Claudia Timmreck, and Matthew Toohey show how aerosol perturbations in the stratosphere lead to a…
Why is climate stochastic?
A time series of a climate variable often resembles a random sequence. This apparent randomness is generally attributed to the unpredictable and…