The Reports on Earth System Science have been published by the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in irregular publication order since 2004. They contain scientific and technical contributions, including dissertations. They are the continuation to the earlier series Report and Examensarbeiten.
Reports on Earth System Science - Intro
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Bei den Reports handelt es sich zumeist um Vorabdrucke später veröffentlichter Artikel in wissenschaftlichen Fachzeitschriften mit…
When you feel the wind on your face, see clouds in the sky, and watch a bird flap its wings in flight, you’re experiencing the troposphere. It is the layer of the atmosphere that is closest to the surface of Earth. It reaches up to an altitude of 10-12 kilometers, even deeper in the tropics, and contains almost all the water vapor in the atmosphere. This is where all weather-related phenomena take place, often marked by cloud formation. In the lowest layer of the troposphere, the roughly…
Dr. Ulrike Niemeier and her co-authors have successfully simulated the transport of a volcanic water vapor cloud through the stratosphere. The simulation agreed in many details very well with the observations which was the basis to show how the water vapor cloud itself influences its transport.
In a recent study, Dr. Cathy Hohenegger, group leader in the climate physics department, reports on the measurement effort called the Field Experiment on Submesoscale Spatio-Temporal Variability in Lindenberg, in short FESSTVaL. The authors present FESSTVaL’s measurement strategy and show first observational results including unprecedented highly-resolved patterns of pools of cold air below thunderstorms, so-called cold pools. Such cold pools are important for the lifecycle of thunderstorms.
The 2024 Nobel Laureate Fellowship will be awarded to Lin Lin who will start her project in February hosted by the Department Climate Variability. In the working group Climate Energetics, led by Jin-Song von Storch, awardee Lin Lin will focus on the interpretation of unforced climate variability, which is planned to be explained in terms of two approaches: a system-approach and a process-approach.
The scientific and research community in Germany and Switzerland is setting a milestone in climate and weather research: Since January 31, 2024, the renowned climate and weather model ICON has been made available to the public under an open source license. This groundbreaking step contributes to making science and scientific services more transparent. At the same time, it enables further scientific progress in an area from which society can particularly benefit in times of climate change.
Exhibition about the Nobel Prize laureates of the Max Planck Society
The touring exhibition developed on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Max Planck Society is now visiting Hamburg from January 24 and will conclude on March 1 at the Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky State and University Library as part of a finissage with a panel discussion.
The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Climate Change category has gone to five European scientists whose pioneering research on polar ice samples established a “fundamental coupling” between greenhouse gas concentrations and rising air temperatures across the planet over the past 800,000 years. The laureates were announced by Bjorn Stevens, committee chair and director at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, on 10 January 2024.
Claudia Stephan has recently been appointed Professor of Theoretical Atmospheric Physics by the University of Rostock and will simultaneously take over as Head of the “Modelling of Atmospheric Processes” department at the Leibniz Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP) in Kühlungsborn from January 2024. The Max Planck Institute for Meteorology cordially congratulates her on this success.
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EUREC4A
In January and February 2020, an international measurement campaign in the trade wind region took place on and around the Caribbean island of Barbados under the leadership of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg and the CNRS of the Sorbonne University in Paris. It aimed to understand how the trade wind clouds respond to and possibly contribute to climate warming.
EUREC4A involved four research vessels, three aircraft, various autonomous and remotely operated…
Nobel Week Lights 2023 kicked off in Stockholm on Monday. The Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) provides data from its Barbados Cloud Observatory for the light festival, which are used to pay tribute to the research of Nobel Prize winner Prof. Klaus Hasselmann in form of an artwork.
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