Predicting the global carbon cycle to support decision-making related to carbon management
In a recent study Dr. Tatiana Ilyina, Dr. Hongmei Li, Aaron Spring and Dr. Wolfgang Müller, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology,…
Meteorological Society of Japan Publication Award for HD(CP)2 Added Value Paper
A group of scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) were recognized for their co-authorship of the paper "The added value of…
New insight into the seasonal carbon dynamics of the global ocean
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) and colleagues used a machine learning approach to reconstruct a monthly climatology…
CO2 emission reductions only distinctly attributable in the atmosphere after a decade
In a new study Aaron Spring, Dr. Tatiana Ilyina and Prof. Jochem Marotzke, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M), show that…
Robust detection of deforestation effects on climate takes decades
Globally, about 22 million square kilometres (Mio km2) of forest have been removed between AD 800 and 2015. This deforestation might double until…
Clouds and Climate — Climate Science’s Greatest Challenge
Prof. Bjorn Stevens, director and head of the department “The Atmosphere in the Earth System” at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M),…
Global temperature modes shed light on the Holocene temperature conundrum
One of the hot topics in climate research is the evolution of the global mean temperature of the last several thousand years, the period from the…
Smaller land carbon feedback in the new MPI Earth System Model
In two recent studies, scientists of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) analyzed the feedback between CO2 and climate using Earth…
Substantial biases persist in CMIP6 simulations of tropical precipitation
A group of scientists mostly from the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) studied the representation of tropical precipitation by models…
Global warming leads to higher storm surges in the German Bight
A new study in Climate Dynamics by Andreas Lang and Uwe Mikolajewicz from the Department "The Ocean in the Earth System" at the Max Planck Institute…
Internal variability dominates short-term surface temperature trends
A new study by Dr Nicola Maher, Dr Flavio Lehner and Prof Jochem Marotzke demonstrates that in the coming 15 years any individual point on the globe…
Extreme summertime heat in a warmer world: where does it come from, and can we avoid it?
In two new publications, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) studied the current and future development of extreme heat…