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When sediment samples reveal the past’s secrets: James Zachos and Ellen Thomas win BBVA Climate Change Award

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).

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About the Institute

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…

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Chenbo Guo becomes head of administration at Max Planck Institute for Meteorology

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.

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Florian Schütte appointed junior professor at GEOMAR

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.

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Environmental Modeling

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…

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Good Scientific Practice

Marco Giorgetta Phone: +49 (0)40 41173-358 marco.giorgetta@mpimet.mpg.de Johann Jungclaus Phone: +49 (0)40 41173-109 johann.jungclaus@mpimet.mpg.de Documents Guidelines MPI-M Rules of MPG Guidelines DFG Contributors License Agreement Software Policy of MPI-M Scholarly Publishing of Papers or Software Documents Good Scientific Practice Our institute places great emphasis on good scientific practice.…

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Research Coordination

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…