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.
EUREC4A
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.
Extreme heat and drought typical of an end-of-century climate could soon occur over Europe, and it could do so repeatedly. Laura Suarez-Gutierrez, MSCA Fellow at ETHZ and formerly at Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M), in collaboration with MPI-M scientists Wolfgang Müller and Jochem Marotzke, show that single and compound heat and drought stress typical of an end-of-century climate could occur over Europe within the next two decades, and that it could occur again in consecutive…
The satellite mission Wivern has been selected by the European Space Agency ESA as one of two remaining candidates to progress to the next development phase of ESA’s eleventh Earth Explorer satellite mission. Dr. Cathy Hohenegger, group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in the Climate Physics department, was involved in the development of the mission proposal and is a member of the Wivern scientific advisory team.
Dr. Laura Köhler and Dr. Claudia Stephan from the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology together with their colleague Brian Green, Postdoc at Stanford University, used superpressure balloons to test the ability of global storm-resolving models to represent convectively induced gravity waves. They find that the models’ spatial structure of the wave field, including their spatial correlation as a function of distances, matches the observations well, but the amplitude of the background flux in the…
When she opens the door to her office and invites you in with a friendly smile, it quickly becomes clear: Sarah Kang is still new at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology. The room is half empty, some of the office furniture has not yet been delivered and there are unpacked moving boxes in the corner. It was only in August that the Korean woman took up her post as Director of a new department — the Climate Dynamics department. Now, two months later, everything seems to be going well: Kang's…
Professor Tiffany Shaw, who is a recipient of the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and a globally acclaimed atmospheric physicist affiliated with the University of Chicago, chose the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) in Hamburg as her host institution for a period of one year. During her research stay, she will extend her work on the response of extra-tropical storm-tracks to include factors influencing their inter-hemispheric asymmetry.
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