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Climate researcher for a day: Girls'Day at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology

The Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, together with the German Climate Computing Centre (DKRZ) and the University of Hamburg, is once again participating in Girls'Day on 27 April 2023.

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Component concurrency increases the parallel efficiency of Earth system models

In a recent study in the journal of Geoscientific Model Development Leonidas Linardakis and his colleagues demonstrate how coarse-grained component concurrency increases the parallel workload of Earth system models and results in an increased number of compute nodes that can be used efficiently in parallel. The additional dimension of parallelism allows the scientists to extend scalability beyond the limits set by established parallelization techniques. It also offers a way to maintain…

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How ice rises and rumples affect the Antarctic ice sheet

In a study in The Cryosphere, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology examined the effect of basal friction and sea level variation on the evolution of ice rises and ice rumples using three-dimensional idealized ice-sheet simulations including the surrounding ice shelves. They show that the current state of ice rises and ice rumples in Antarctica is dependent on their past evolution.

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Department Climate Physics

Department Climate Physics Department Climate Physics Our research focuses on understanding how atmospheric water conditions the behavior of the climate system. This leads to efforts to answer specific questions such as how cloud processes set the planetary albedo, how moist processes influence the structure of the troposphere, and how `water-powered' circulation systems interact with the surface and the stratosphere. Over the past few years these efforts have led to new developments, in…

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Administration

Administration aims to support all staff and guests of the institute. It is divided into the areas of Human Resources Management, Financial Accounting, Third-Party Funding Management (supporting proposals and projects), Purchasing, Travel Management, as well as General Services including Reception and House Technics. Contact details for each area are given below. Contact Chenbo Guo Head of Administration Tel.: +49 (0)40 41173-285 chenbo.guo@mpimet.mpg.de Contact Reception …

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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2021

[Translate to English:] Poster: Physik für das Klima und andere komplexe Phänomene Erstellt von: Königlich Schwedische Akademie der Wissenschaften Download pdf Poster 2021 [Storch] Hans von Storch (Autor und Herausgeber), From decoding turbulence to unveiling the fingerprint of climate change: The science of Klaus Hasselmann. - Cham: Springer, 2022. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-91716-6 [Marotzke2021] Marotzke, J. (2021), Physik und Klima: Zum Physik-Nobelpreis 2021 an Syukuro…

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Job opportunities

Scientific Programmer Learn more about the essential work of our scientific programmers in developing and operating climate models at our institute. Scientific Programmer Job listing Job opportunities Job opportunities

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The first release of ICON-Sapphire, targeting simulations of the Earth System at kilometer scale

Do thunderstorms in the atmosphere affect the meandering of ocean currents? What is the effect of ocean eddies on the carbon budget? Investigating such questions requires simulating the Earth system at a grid spacing finer than 10 km. This is now possible with the release of the first version of the ICON-Sapphire configuration developed at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology. In the paper “ICON-Sapphire: simulating the components of the Earth system and their interactions at kilometer and…

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Social change more important than physical tipping points

Illustration,Second “Hamburg Climate Futures Outlook” published: 1.5-degree goal not plausible

Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius is currently not plausible, as is shown in a new, central study released by Universität Hamburg’s Cluster of Excellence “Climate, Climatic Change, and Society” (CLICCS). Climate policy, protests, and the Ukraine crisis: the participating researchers systematically assessed to what extent social changes are already underway — while also analyzing certain physical processes frequently discussed as tipping points. Their conclusion: social change is…

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Modeling

ICON, which obtains its name from the usage of spherical grids derived from the icosahedron (ICO) and the non-hydrostatic (N) dynamics, originated as a joint project of the MPI-M and the German Weather Service (Deutscher Wetterdienst, DWD) and has expanded to involve more development partners at the German Climate Computing Center (DKRZ), the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). It includes component models for the atmosphere,…

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Chetankumar Jalihal continues his research as a Humboldt Fellow

Dr Chetankumar Jalihal, a postdoc at MPI, successfully applied for a Humboldt Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral scientists. Since January 2023, he continues his research in the research group "Physics of the Ocean" at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology - now focusing on the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) and the monsoon.

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One more ICON milestone reached

Illustration of the two grids considered in this paper.

In a joint publication whose author list comprises a substantial fraction of all scientists of the department “The Ocean in the Earth System” at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M), another milestone of the ICON project was reached.