Revisiting the Blue Marble: ICON simulating the coupled climate system at 1 km
The early 1970s is often associated with the birth of the modern environmental movement. In 1970 the first Earth day was celebrated, and Greenpeace…
Technical milestone reached: global Earth system simulations with 1.2 km resolution
The Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) has opened a new chapter in Earth System Modelling that has been a dream for climate scientists and…
The Future of Climate Modeling — the Kilometer Scale
Climate change poses new questions for climate science; questions that cannot be answered by the present generation of climate models. There is no…
The first version of the ICON Earth System Model
A team of researchers around Dr. Johann Jungclaus from the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) has published a paper in the Journal of…
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What controls the millennial-scale climate variability in simulations of the last deglaciation?
The transition between the last glacial maximum (LGM, about 21,000 years before present) and present, which is referred to as the last deglaciation,…
The driving forces of the terrestrial carbon cycle predictability
Although the global carbon cycle is predictable to some extent, we know little about the source of the memory in the system. In a study published in…
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A Quantification of Natural Forcing Contributions on Multi-Decadal North Atlantic Temperature Variability over the Past Millennium
In a new study in Geophysical Research Letters Dr. Shih-Wei Fang, Dr. Claudia Timmreck, and Dr. Johann Jungclaus from the Max Planck Institute for…
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Holocene vegetation transitions and their climatic drivers in MPI-ESM1.2
Do we understand the migration of global vegetation patterns over the last millennia during the transition from the mid Holocene some 8000 years ago…
NextGEMS video clip release
NextGEMS is building prototypes for a new generation of Earth system models to advance science, guide policy, and inform applications to support the…
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Abrupt CO2 quadrupling: Resolving ocean eddies leads to smaller increase in global mean surface temperature
In a recent study in Geophysical Research Letters, Dr. Dian Putrasahan and colleagues from the department “The Ocean in the Earth System” at the Max…
ESM2025: Earth System Models for the future
ESM2025, an ambitious European project on Earth System Modelling, coordinated by Météo France-CNRM, is now official. The project started on 1 June…
One step closer to a new generation of Earth System Models
NextGEMS, an ambitious European project to develop a new generation of Storm-resolving Earth System Models (SR-ESMs), is now official. On May 28,…