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Berlin Summit for EVE — Summit Statement

Bjorn Stevens at the 'Berlin Summit for EVE'. Credit: Tristan Vostry

The summary statement of the Berlin Summit for Earth Virtualization Engines (EVE) issues an impassioned call for international cooperation to advance science and technology so that “Everyone knows how climate and climate change affect them, and where this knowledge empowers them to act”. The Summit Statement, developed and signed by the summit’s participants, succinctly outlines how inadequacies and injustices in how climate information is developed and shared is leaving lives and livelihoods…

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Indian Master's students start work at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology as part of the IISER-MPG Master's Internship Program

The Max Planck Institute for Meteorology is a partner in a new cooperation program of the Max Planck Society with the Indian Institutes for Science Education and Research (IISERs) to implement research stays for young talented master students from India at a Max Planck Institute.

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From the Arctic to the tropics: permafrost soils and methane

A new study led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, in collaboration with scientists from the University of Hamburg, shows that future Arctic methane emissions may not depend on whether thawing permafrost soils dry out or not. They also found that the hydrological conditions of the permafrost soils not only have a local impact but could even influence methane emissions in the tropics.

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How do the ups control the downs within deep convective clouds?

In convective storms, the air that goes down is almost as important as the air that goes up. These convective downdrafts influence the termination of updrafts, near surface air properties, surface winds. However, predicting downdrafts under specific atmospheric conditions is difficult because their properties depend on several interrelated processes. In a new study led by Dr. Julia Windmiller, scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology and the Australian Research Council Centre of…

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The Berlin Summit for EVE: Toward closing the climate information gap

Never before in millions of years has our planet warmed so rapidly as today. A deeply concerning manifestation of this change is the world’s recent and repeated exposure to unprecedented weather events that has resulted in increasingly frequent, tragic, and expensive natural disasters. Record-breaking heatwaves, forest and bush fires, riverine and coastal floods, droughts, and sea level rise are now threatening our present and future. Communities worldwide expect timely and accurate guidance to…

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Tiffany Shaw receives Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award

Prof. Tiffany Shaw, internationally renowned atmospheric physicist at the University of Chicago, has been selected by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award in recognition of her outstanding research accomplishments.

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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 concentrations, surface temperatures, evapotranspiration rates and precipitation levels. A new study, led by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in collaboration with scientists of the Universities of Hamburg and Madrid and the Norwegian Research Centre, investigated the parametrization of the soil hydrology in permafrost affected regions…

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Grand Ensemble

2015 Stevens, B. (2015). Rethinking the Lower Bound on Aerosol Radiative Forcing. Journal of Climate, 28(12), 4794–4819. doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00656.1 2016 Bittner, M., H. Schmidt, C. Timmreck, and F. Sienz (2016). Using a large ensemble of simulations to assess the Northern Hemisphere stratospheric dynamical response to tropical volcanic eruptions and its uncertainty. Geophysical Research Letters, 43, 9324-9332. doi: 10.1002/2016GL070587 Rädel, G., T. Mauritsen,…

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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 with Dr. Sergey Gromov and Dr. Benedikt Steil from the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, performed the first-ever simulations of the evolution of climate and methane for the entire period from the last glacial period to the present, with the model considering all relevant sources and sinks of methane. In their pioneering study, Kleinen and…

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Climate Vegetation Dynamics

Contact: Prof. Dr. Martin Claussen Group leader Phone: +49 (0)40 41173-212 martin.claussen@mpimet.mpg.de Contact: Climate shapes vegetation, and vegetation in turn changes climate, for example, by soils and plants reflecting sunlight differently or by plants cooling an otherwise dry environment through transpiration. The Climate Vegetation Dynamics Group aims at understanding these terrestrial biogeophysical feedback processes in the Earth's climate system. To this end, we address the…

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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 clouds and atmospheric convection. Its goal is to deepen the understanding of tropical clouds and to test hypotheses about the role of clouds and convection for the climate. Together with Dr. Lutz Hirsch, who has led the group so far and who will continue to serve as technical lead and coordinator, and the other team members, Dr. Windmiller will…