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Indian Master's students start work at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology as part of the IISER-MPG Master's Internship Program

The Max Planck Institute for Meteorology is a partner in a new cooperation program of the Max Planck Society with the Indian Institutes for Science…

Bird's eye view of permafrost soil

From the Arctic to the tropics: permafrost soils and methane

A new study led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, in collaboration with scientists from the University of Hamburg, shows…

Rain clouds

How do the ups control the downs within deep convective clouds?

In convective storms, the air that goes down is almost as important as the air that goes up. These convective downdrafts influence the termination of…

The Berlin Summit for EVE: Toward closing the climate information gap

Never before in millions of years has our planet warmed so rapidly as today. A deeply concerning manifestation of this change is the world’s recent…

Portrait T. Shaw

Tiffany Shaw receives Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award

Prof. Tiffany Shaw, internationally renowned atmospheric physicist at the University of Chicago, has been selected by the Alexander von Humboldt…

Photo: Permafrost

Permafrost hydrology plays an important role in global climate simulations, new study shows

Earth system models exhibit large inter-model differences in the simulated climate of the Arctic and subarctic zone, with varying sea ice…

Photo: River in rain forest

Tropical wetlands drove methane changes since the last glacial

In a new study in Climate of the Past Dr. Thomas Kleinen and Prof. Victor Brovkin, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, together…

Julia Windmiller with HALO model

Julia Windmiller becomes new group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology

Dr. Julia Windmiller is the new scientific head of the group “Tropical Cloud Observations”. The group collects and uses observational data of…

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Three fellowships for George Datseris

Dr. George Datseris, a scientist previously working in the department “The Atmosphere in the Earth System” at the Max Planck Institute for…

Fairweather cumulus are here to stay after all!

“Eureka!” That is what the Greek scholar Archimedes is said to have exclaimed in delight upon discovering buoyancy. More than 2,000 years later, the…

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The effect of climate perturbations on the timing of Heinrich events

Throughout the last glacial period (ca. 65,000-15,000 years before present) periodic ice discharge events from the North American ice sheet, known as…

Is climate deterministic or stochastic?

Prof. Jin-Song von Storch shows in a new paper that climate variability on ultra-long timescales is, contrary to common understanding, not determined…

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