FESSTVaL: a field campaign targeted to the detection of small-scale weather phenomena
Like a magnifying glass, FESSTVaL will peer into the internal structure of small-scale weather phenomena, with a particular emphasis on summertime…
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Relative humidity is key in quantifying Earth’s changing climate sensitivity
In a new paper by Stella Bourdin, Lukas Kluft and Bjorn Stevens the authors found a dependence of climate sensitivity on the given distribution of…
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…
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…
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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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…
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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…
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,…
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…
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)…