Focus: The big melt | Marie-Luise Kapsch, Clemens Schannwell
Climate change is melting the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica and causing sea levels to rise. This could be a disaster for island states and…
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Coordinating climate modeling to stimulate climate science
In a commentary recently published in AGU Advances, Prof. Bjorn Stevens, Director of the Climate Physics Department of the Max Planck Institute for…
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Extremely warm European summers are preceded by North Atlantic Ocean heat accumulation
In a new study, Lara Wallberg, together with Laura Suarez-Gutierrez, Daniela Matei, and Wolfgang Müller have investigated the relationship between…
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Collaborative hacking: Max Planck Institute for Meteorology hosts the largest hackathon for Earth system modeling
From March 4 to 8, the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology will be hosting a hackathon for intensive hacking, bug-finding, bug-fixing and lots of…
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Insights into the thermal structure of the tropical troposphere
When you feel the wind on your face, see clouds in the sky, and watch a bird flap its wings in flight, you’re experiencing the troposphere. It is the…
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Cloud Clustering Causes More Extreme Rain
New climate model shows more extreme rainfall in the tropics with increased temperatures.
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How a volcanic water vapor cloud influences its own transport through the stratosphere
Dr. Ulrike Niemeier and her co-authors have successfully simulated the transport of a volcanic water vapor cloud through the stratosphere. The…
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When thunderstorms light up scientists' eyes: first results from the field campaign FESSTVaL
In a recent study, Dr. Cathy Hohenegger, group leader in the climate physics department, reports on the measurement effort called the Field…
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Max Planck Institute for Meteorology welcomes Hasselmann-fellow Lin Lin
The 2024 Nobel Laureate Fellowship will be awarded to Lin Lin who will start her project in February hosted by the Department Climate Variability. In…
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Weather and Climate Model ICON published under Open Source License
The scientific and research community in Germany and Switzerland is setting a milestone in climate and weather research: Since January 31, 2024, the…
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Pioneers of Science in Hamburg
Exhibition about the Nobel Prize laureates of the Max Planck Society The touring exhibition developed on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the…
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BBVA Climate Change Award: Together researchers unlock the secrets of polar ice
The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Climate Change category has gone to five European scientists whose pioneering research on…