Climate change is melting the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica and causing sea levels to rise. This could be a disaster for
island states and coastal cities. How much the ice sheets shrink also depends on feedback effects between the ice sheets and the climate system. Marie-Luise Kapsch and Clemens Schannwell are studying these effects at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology.
In a commentary recently published in AGU Advances, Prof. Bjorn Stevens, Director of the Climate Physics Department of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, shares his perspectives on the future of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project, or CMIP.
In a new study, Lara Wallberg, together with Laura Suarez-Gutierrez, Daniela Matei, and Wolfgang Müller have investigated the relationship between extremely warm European summers and changes in the North Atlantic Ocean. They found a mechanism through which extremely warm European summers are preceded by the accumulation of heat in the North Atlantic Ocean on sub-decadal time scales of five to ten years. Thereby, anomalies of the ocean heat transport and associated ocean heat content changes…
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
Director for Climate Dynamics Department Aug. 2023 - present
Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan, Republic of Korea, Department of Urban and Environmental Engineering
Professor Sep. 2022 - Aug. 2023 Associate Professor Aug. 2015 - Aug. 2022 Assistant Professor Aug. 2011 - Aug. 2015
Columbia University, New York, USA Department of Applied Physics and Applied…
From March 4 to 8, the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology will be hosting a hackathon for intensive hacking, bug-finding, bug-fixing and lots of fun. The hackathon on the topic of Earth system modelling is being jointly organized by three projects, making it even bigger than its predecessors that have taken place in recent years. Around 140 registered participants from Europe and Senegal will let their fingers fly in Hamburg.
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
In the first years after the founding of the MPI for Meteorology, dissertations, research reports, etc. were published within the Hamburger Geophysikalische…
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.
3) Aruhasi, C. Li, and D. Olonscheck, "Disentangling the forced and unforced components of observed surface air temperature trends"
2) Dhame, S., D. Olonscheck, and M. Rugenstein, "Higher resolution does not consistently improve equatorial Pacific sea surface temperature pattern across climate models"
1) Engels, A. et al. (including D. Olonscheck), Hamburg Climate Futures Outlook 2024, Cluster of Excellence Climate, Climate Change, and Society (CLICCS). Hamburg, Germany.
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