Dr. Daniela Jacob, Deputy of the Department “Atmosphere in the Earth System” at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M), has been appointed to a Professor II position ("adjunct professor") at the University of Bergen, Norway.

The part-time position in Regional Climate Change at the Geophysical Institute, Faculty of Mathematics and…

From 19 to 26 September 2009 the shopping mall Europa Passage, located in the city centre of Hamburg, will turn into a climate theme park: during the 1. Hamburg Climate Week / Climate Night 40 participants will present more than 60 actions and attractions all dealing with climate and climate change. The Max Planck Institute for Meteorology…

Bjorn Stevens, most recently Professor for Atmospheric Sciences at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA), USA, and since 15 August 2008 Director at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) in Hamburg, was appointed Professor at the University of Hamburg on 4 August 2009. At the MPI-M Prof. Stevens leads the department “The…

Research Highlights
Nature 461, 850 (15 October 2009) | doi:10.1038/461850e; Published online 14 October 2009

AGU Article

Even before industrialization, humans were having an effect on atmospheric carbon dioxide levels by transforming natural land for agricultural uses, report researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in…

Auf der dritten World Climate Conference (WCC 3), die vom 31. August bis 3. September in Genf stattfindet, wollen Forscher und Politiker gemeinsam die Entwicklung von Klima-Servicecentern maßgeblich voranbringen. Über diese Plattformen sollen wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse und Prognosen gezielt in verbraucherfreundliche Information umgesetzt…

For 18 weeks the Science Express exhibition train has been touring Germany – from Sunday, 30 August to Tuesday, 1 September it will finally stop in Hamburg (Altona train station). This mobile exhibition, coordinated by the Max Planck Society, takes its visitors in 12 altered coaches on a journey into the world of tomorrow and gives information…

Malte Heinemann is the 50th graduate of the International Max Planck Research School on Earth System Modelling (IMPRS-ESM) at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) in Hamburg. In his doctoral thesis entitled “Warm and sensitive Paleocene-Eocene climate“ he investigates the climate about 55 million years ago, and its sensitivity to a…

For the first time the KlimaCampus at the University of Hamburg awards the Wladimir Peter Köppen Prize. This award comprises 5,000 EUR and was awarded to Dr. Hui Wan, junior scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M), on 7 July 2009. The recognition is based on her excellent doctoral thesis about numerical weather and climate…

Climate science, particularly climate prediction, has been stymied by difficult and longstanding problems – mostly related to clouds. Through the present day, our poor understanding of how clouds might change with their changing environment “remains the largest source of uncertainty” in model based projections of future climate (IPCC, 2007). …

On 25 June 2009 the Klimahaus 8° East in Bremerhaven was inaugurated. Together with 1000 invited guests the creators of the Klimahaus, the mayors of Bremerhaven and Bremen as well as the guest of honour Bob Geldof celebrated the start of the exhibition after eight years of planning and construction. The Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M)…