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Prof. Guy Brasseur in front of the historical museum of the meteorological service in Shanghai (Photo: private)

Guy Brasseur honored with the AGU Kaufman Prize

In recognition of his commitment to international scientific collaboration, the American Geophysical Union honored Guy Brasseur with the Kaufman…

Tatiana Ilyina at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg

Tatiana Ilyina receives Nansen Medal

The Fridtjof Nansen Medal, one of the most important prizes for oceanography, will be awarded to Tatiana Ilyina, Professor at the University of…

Frontal view of the HALO aircraft, dominated by the red and white striped nose mast against a blue sky with light cloud cover.

Above the clouds: HALO measurement campaign successfully completed

Over a period of more than three months, scientists have collected data on cloud formation in the Atlantic with the HALO research aircraft, and…

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How to deal with the 1.5°C Climate Target

In a position paper, the German Climate Consortium, of which the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology is a member, has made recommendations on how to…

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“Hasselmann legacy” symposium on stochastic thinking in climate science

Renowned researchers meet at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in order to discuss current and future work in the line of Klaus Hasselmann’s…

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Delegation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences visits MPI-M

On the occasion of 50 years of collaboration between the Max Planck Society and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a Chinese delegation is currently…

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Revisiting the Blue Marble: ICON simulating the coupled climate system at 1 km

The early 1970s is often associated with the birth of the modern environmental movement. In 1970 the first Earth day was celebrated, and Greenpeace was founded in 1971. In March 1972 the Club of Rome published its influential report entitled the “limits of growth”. The growing environmental consciousness was ...

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The International Max Planck Research School on Earth System Modelling (IMPRS-ESM) offers a structured, interdisciplinary and international program for graduate students who want to earn a PhD degree. The main focus of our doctoral program is to advance our understanding of processes and dynamics in the Earth system as well as our prediction skills.

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Nobel Prize in Physics 2021 for Prof. Klaus Hasselmann

The statistical model with which global warming can be attributed to increasing concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere was developed by Klaus Hasselmann, former director of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work.

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