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Three fellowships for George Datseris

Dr. George Datseris, a scientist previously working in the department “The Atmosphere in the Earth System” at the Max Planck Institute for…

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The effect of climate perturbations on the timing of Heinrich events

Throughout the last glacial period (ca. 65,000-15,000 years before present) periodic ice discharge events from the North American ice sheet, known as…

Is climate deterministic or stochastic?

Prof. Jin-Song von Storch shows in a new paper that climate variability on ultra-long timescales is, contrary to common understanding, not determined…

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WarmWorld project at full speed

With the first day of spring we also kick off the full module-team of the BMBF-funded WarmWorld project. Within this project, the Max Planck Institute…

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What the development of global climate models at the km-scale teaches us about tropical convection

Accurately capturing location, diurnal as well as seasonal variability of the tropical rainbelt, over land and over ocean, has remained beyond reach…

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Climate researcher for a day: Girls'Day at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology

The Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, together with the German Climate Computing Centre (DKRZ) and the University of Hamburg, is once again…

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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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Original NASA Blue Marble photo left, visualization right. Credit: MPI-M, DKRZ, NVIDIA

The International Max Planck Research School on Earth System Modelling

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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We are an internationally renowned institute for climate research. Our mission is to understand Earth's changing climate.

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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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Our institute as an attractive employer

Our research requires us to seek out the most talented, creative and passionate individuals. This compels us to draw from the greatest possible pool of talent.

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Seminars

Title Number Date Regular price Organizers Vacancies
The characteristics of tides and their effects on the general circulation in the Mediterranean Sea 2275 29.03.2023 free Bo Liu enough      
tbd 2260 05.04.2023 free Swantje Bastin enough      
tbd 2244 12.04.2023 free Swantje Bastin enough      
TBD 2287 18.04.2023 free Chetankumar Jalihal enough      
tbd 2278 03.05.2023 free Chao Li enough      
tbd 2279 10.05.2023 free Swantje Bastin enough      
Physical and observational constraints on the anvil cloud feedback 2291 16.05.2023 free Bjorn Stevens enough      
Visit from Nature Climate Change Editor 2282 23.05.2023 free Swantje Bastin enough      
Whose plastic is that? Combining ocean physics with Bayesian inference to attribute sources of marine plastic pollution 2276 24.05.2023 free Swantje Bastin enough      
tbd 25.5. 2289 25.05.2023 free Bjorn Stevens       
tbd 2284 31.05.2023 free Bo Liu enough      
Accreditation MIN4 and MIN8 studies 2251 06.06.2023 free enough      
tbd 08.06. 2262 08.06.2023 free Claudia Stephan       
Accreditation MIN4 and MIN8 studies 2268 13.06.2023 free enough      
TBD 2273 21.06.2023 free Uwe Mikolajewicz enough      
tbd 29.06. 2290 29.06.2023 free Bjorn Stevens       
AMOC / EPOC Workshop 2280 18.07.2023–19.07.2023 free enough      
MPI M Advisory Board 2248 13.11.2023–15.11.2023 free enough