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Contact Dr. Ulrike Kirchner Research Coordinator Phone: +49 (0)40 41173-235 ulrike.kirchner@mpimet.mpg.de Contact The research coordinator supports the directors and the managing director in all aspects of scientific management and in the running of day-to-day business, including internal and external communication, reporting and support for the Scientific Advisory Board and Board of Trustees. At the intersection with the institute's management, the coordination of the scientific…

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Revisiting the Blue Marble: ICON simulating the coupled climate system at 1 km

Original NASA Blue Marble photo left, visualization right. Credit: MPI-M, DKRZ, NVIDIA

The early 1970s is often associated with the birth of the modern environmental movement. In 1970 the first Earth day was celebrated, and Greenpeace was founded in 1971. In March 1972 the Club of Rome published its influential report entitled the “limits of growth”. The growing environmental consciousness was also felt within the scientific community. The late Prof. Reimar Lüst, who was appointed as president of the Max Planck Society in June of 1972, was committed to form a new institute to…

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Barbados Cloud Observatory

To help answer long standing questions about the statistical properties of shallow cumulus clouds and their link to our changing climate, measurements and a continuous data set are needed. Therefore, the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology together with the Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology and several other participating institutions established a cloud observatory on the island of Barbados. The research station “Barbados Cloud Observatory” at the easternmost…

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Research aircraft HALO

Research Aircraft HALO Research Aircraft HALO Which climate effects do clouds have? Under what conditions do they warm or cool the atmosphere? Extensive measurement data is needed to answer these and similar questions. To obtain these, we use the specially equipped research aircraft HALO (High Altitude and Long Range Research Aircraft). The combination of its range, cruising altitude, payload and comprehensive instrumentation make this aircraft a globally unique research platform. One could…

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Destination Earth

Duration 10/2021–08/2025 Duration Funded by European Union Funded by As a result of societal changes and climate change, societies are becoming ever more exposed to weather related extremes. At the same time, our ability to anticipate these changes, both at short and long-timescales, are hindered by the poor regional fidelity of existing climate information systems. To overcome this shortcoming, DestinE will build two different digital replicas of the complex Earth system…

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WarmWorld

So far, global climate models were only able to run simulations with a resolution of 50 to 100 km. With increased resolution, many small-scale processes — especially in clouds, but also in the ocean — can be described with physical laws or parameterized with better approaches than before. Achieving this objective involves significant technical challenges. In particular, the model must efficiently exploit the new possibilities of high-performance computing (exascale computing). The WarmWorld…

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Scientific Computing

Contact Dr. Daniel Klocke Group leader – Computational Infrastructure and Model Development Tel.: +49 (0)40 41173-144 daniel.klocke@mpimet.mpg.de Contact The Max Planck Institute for Meteorology develops and supports an IT environment enabling scientists to understand Earth’s changing climate, including a well-functioning interface to the DKRZ high performance computing environment. In the Scientific Computing Laboratory we care about our numerical modelling tools, the computing…

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Observations show: assumption of a large trade cumulus reduction with global warming refuted

The response of trade cumulus clouds to warming is a major uncertainty in climate projections. In the last decade, a hypothesis was developed according to which the interplay of convection and cloud cover leads to increased warming.

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Privacy Policy

Privacy policy The Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e.V. (MPG) takes the protection of your personal data very seriously. We process personal data gathered when visiting our websites in compliance with applicable data protection legislation. We neither publish your data nor transmit them to third parties on an unauthorized basis. In the following section, we explain which data we record when you visit one of our websites, and exactly how they are utilized: A.…

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Imprint

Imprint The following provides mandatory data concerning the provider of this website, obligations with regard to data protection, as well as other important legal references involving the Internet site of the Max Planck Society (https://www.mpg.de/en) as required by German law. Provider Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e.V. Hofgartenstrasse 8 D-80539 Munich Germany Telefon: +49 (89) 2108-0 Internet: https://www.mpg.de is the legal service provider of this…

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IMPRS-ESM

The International Max Planck Research School on Earth System Modelling (IMPRS-ESM) offers a structured, interdisciplinary and international program for graduate students who want to earn a PhD degree. The main focus of our doctoral program is to advance our understanding of processes and dynamics in the Earth system as well as our prediction skills. IMPRS-ESM is a joint program by the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) and the Universität Hamburg (UHH). 1. paragraph As IMPRS-ESM…

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Climate feedback to stratospheric aerosol forcing: the key role of the pattern effect

In a recent study Moritz Günther, Hauke Schmidt, Claudia Timmreck (all MPI-M), and Matthew Toohey (University of Saskatchewan) argue why the cooling following large volcanic eruptions is smaller than what one might expect from simple energy balance arguments.