In a publication in Weather, a journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, Prof. Jochem Marotzke (Max Planck Institute for Meteorology), Dr. Sebastian Milinski (currently NCAR, Boulder, USA) and Dr. Chris Jones of the Met Office, UK, answer questions about global warming.

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 Advances in Modeling Earth Systems documenting the ICON Earth System Model Version 1.0, the first coupled ocean-atmosphere-land model based on the ICON system.

Subsea permafrost is a previously overlooked component of the climate system. In a study published in The Cryosphere, the authors Stiig Wilkenskjeld and Victor Brovkin from the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology and their former colleague Matteo Puglini together with Frederieke Miesner and Paul P. Overduin from the Alfred Wegener Institute for…

Dr. Laura Suarez-Gutierrez, scientist in the department “The Ocean in the Earth System” at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, successfully applied for a prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship. At the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich and the Institute Pierre-Simon Laplace (IPSL) in Paris, she will be…

Dr. Cathy Hohenegger was appointed a W 2 position in the department “The Atmosphere in the Earth System” at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M). The institute warmly congratulates her on her outstanding achievements as recognized with this position. She joins Prof. Victor Brovkin and Prof. Jin-Song von Storch, both members of the…

On March 03, 2022, the new high-performance computer system for Earth system research "Levante" started its operation at the German Climate Computing Center (DKRZ) in the first expansion stage. With 14 PetaFLOPS (14 quadrillion mathematical operations per second), the supercomputer quadruples the computing power at DKRZ.

The transition between the last glacial maximum (LGM, about 21,000 years before present) and present, which is referred to as the last deglaciation, was characterized by a significant warming and a series of abrupt climate changes. By conducting a first systematic ensemble of hindcast simulations for the last deglaciation with the Max Planck…

In a publication, recently selected as a Featured Article, in Chaos, Dr. George Datseris (Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M)) and Associate Professor Alexandre Wagemakers (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain) provide an algorithm that can estimate attractors and their basins for arbitrary dynamical systems.

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 Earth System Dynamics, the authors Istvan Dunkl, Dr. Aaron Spring, Prof. Victor Brovkin (scientists at Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M)) together with Prof. Pierre Friedlingstein (College…

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 Meteorology, Prof. Davide Zanchettin from the University of Venice and Dr. Myriam Khodri from the Institute Pierre-Simone Laplace in Paris show, that the natural external forcing, including volcanic…