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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…
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…
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,…
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.
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.
This year’s recipients of the BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Climate Change Category are paleoclimatologists Prof. James Zachos (University of California) and Prof. Ellen Thomas (Yale University and Wesleyan University).
Research within the institute is organized in departments, each with a director, and each with its own particular, and self-defined, interests and culture. We exploit the overlap in our interests to advance our research in ways that would not be possible if we worked alone. An important way in which we do this is by working together in developing our models, to be at the forefront of developments worldwide. Even with very large (almost unimaginably so) computers, calculating Earth’s climate is…
Chenbo Guo took over the position of head of administration at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) from her predecessor Reiner Letscher on January 1, 2023. The MPI-M wishes Chenbo Guo every success. Reiner Letscher, who has held the position since 1999, will continue to serve the institute until mid-2023 after which he will retire.
Dr. Florian Schütte, scientist in the department “Ocean in the Earth System” at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, will become junior professor at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research in Kiel on 01.01.2023. As an observational oceanographer, he thus returns to his roots in the department of the sea-going physical oceanography in Kiel. The Max Planck Institute for Meteorology congratulates him warmly on this success.
The long-term plan of the Environmental Modeling Group is to develop integrated modeling approaches that combine approaches from different disciplines and address societally important environmental questions associated with human development. Questions of large importance, perhaps exacerbated by climate change, population growth, urbanisation, industrialisation and intensive agricultural practices, are addressed by the group. An important priority is to assess the impact of…
Marco Giorgetta Phone: +49 (0)40 41173-358 marco.giorgetta@mpimet.mpg.de
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