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Permafrost hydrology plays an important role in global climate simulations, new study shows

Earth system models exhibit large inter-model differences in the simulated climate of the Arctic and subarctic zone, with varying sea ice…

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Tropical wetlands drove methane changes since the last glacial

In a new study in Climate of the Past Dr. Thomas Kleinen and Prof. Victor Brovkin, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, together…

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Julia Windmiller becomes new group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology

Dr. Julia Windmiller is the new scientific head of the group “Tropical Cloud Observations”. The group collects and uses observational data of tropical…

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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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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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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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21.06.2023
13:30 h
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Uwe Mikolajewicz
Bor-Ting Jong
26.07.2023
13:30 h
Bundesstr. 53, room 022/023
Shih-Wei Fang
Volkmar Wirth
Joint Seminar
14.06.2023
13:30 h
KlimaCampus 008
Nedjeljka Žagar
Joint Seminar
23.08.2023
13:30 h
Bundesstr. 53, room 022/023
Martin Singh
Joint Seminar
28.06.2023
13:30 h
Bundesstr. 53, room 022/023
Jiawei Bao
Daisuke Takasuka
Joint Seminar
27.06.2023
15:15 h
Bundesstr. 53, room 022/023
Daniel Klocke
Sothea Has
Joint Seminar
20.06.2023
15:15 h
Bundesstr. 53, room 022/023
Claudia Stephan
Joint Seminar
04.07.2023
15:15 h
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