Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology: News from the Institute

Atmosphere Clouds Convective processes Focus on Observations Precipitation Project

From 20 January through 20 February 2020, the EUREC4A (Elucidating the role of clouds-circulation coupling in climate) field study will investigate…

Clouds Machine learning

In order to better understand cloud structures more than 60 scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) and the Laboratoire…

Atmosphere Atmospheric circulation Clouds Observations Publication

Aircrafts have long been used to sample clouds, now the German research aircraft HALO (High-Altitude LOng-Range) has been configured as a mobile…

Air chemistry Atmosphere Clouds Publication

Stratocumulus clouds are efficient in cooling the Earth’s atmosphere by reflecting incoming solar radiation back to space. However, predicting the…

Atmosphere Atmospheric waves Award Clouds Personnel

Beginning in May 2019 a new working group on cloud-wave coupling led by Dr Claudia Stephan has joined the department "The Atmosphere in the Earth…

Atmosphere Clouds Video

Prof. Bjorn Stevens im Interview

Atmosphere Clouds Model resolution Visualisation

It has been a long-standing question whether climate change can be traced back to human activities. In order to answer it more precisely and to…

Atmosphere Atmospheric circulation Clouds Focus on Project Visualisation

Which climate effects do clouds have? Under what conditions do they warm or cool the atmosphere? And what role do clouds play in shaping the…

Aerosol Atmosphere Clouds Focus on Publication

The new study "Rethinking the lower bound on aerosol forcing" in the Journal of Climate, written by Prof. Bjorn Stevens, director at the Max Planck…