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How close are we to 1.5 °C or 2 °C of global warming?

In a publication in Weather, a journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, Prof. Jochem Marotzke (Max Planck Institute for Meteorology), Dr.…

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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…

Thawing rate of Arctic subsea permafrost ice for different climate projections relative to the thawing in a pre-industrial climate.

Delayed response of subsea permafrost thaw to anthropogenic warming

Subsea permafrost is a previously overlooked component of the climate system. In a study published in The Cryosphere, the authors Stiig Wilkenskjeld…

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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,…

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Finding attractors of dynamical systems via recurrences

In a publication, recently selected as a Featured Article, in Chaos, Dr. George Datseris (Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M)) and Associate…

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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…

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Atmospheric data treasure for the trade wind region collected, processed, and made available

Thirteen scientists from Germany, France and the United States collaborated to collect measurements and process them into a dataset that provides a…

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Predicting global warming: how water vapor affects the radiative forcing of CO2

In a new study in Geophysical Research Letters, Dr. Lukas Kluft, Dr. Sally Dacie, Prof. Dr. Bjorn Stevens (scientists at the Max Planck Institute for…

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Global Carbon Project: Tracking the fate of man-made CO2

After the global average of fossil carbon dioxide emissions dropped significantly in 2020, this year they are again approaching levels before the…

Humidity differences and their effect on the clear-sky radiation budget in global storm-resolving models

In a new study in the Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems Theresa Lang, Dr. Ann Kristin Naumann, Prof. Bjorn Stevens and Prof. Stefan A.…

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