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.
The RAPID observing system has monitored the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) at 26.5°N since 2004. Many physical oceanographers and climate scientists routinely use these measurements or refer to them, and the observing system’s 20th anniversary in April 2024 marks it as one of the longest dynamical time series in oceanography. But the history of ideas that have led to the establishment of the RAPID monitoring system has been shrouded in mystery for all but a select few. In a…
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Prof. Dr. Sarah M. Kang
Director Tel.: +49 (0)40 41173-437 sarah.kang@mpimet.mpg.de
Elke Lord
Assistant Tel.: +49 (0)40 41173-438 elke.lord@mpimet.mpg.de
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Department Climate Dynamics
Department Climate Dynamics
We aim to advance our fundamental understanding of global climate dynamics by employing a unique research strategy that involves systematically combining a hierarchy of models with principle-based theories. Our focus centers on exploring the mechanisms…
The “quasi-biennial oscillation” (QBO) is a well-known wind system characterized by alternating layers of westerly and easterly winds encircling the whole globe that descend through the equatorial stratosphere with a roughly two year periodicity. However, so far it has been still uncertain how the QBO may change due to global warming. A team of scientists led by researcher Henning Franke from the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology now used global storm-resolving simulations with the climate…
