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Through this workshop, the institute has access to the full spectrum of machines that is necessary to handle all major metal, plastic, and wood work, including digitally controlled high precision machinery. Many measurement devices required for research projects of the institute are not commercially available. Therefore, they must be produced in the institute, requiring a well-equipped workshop and highly qualified staff. Highly precise instruments are built in co-operation with…

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Structure of the institute

Ombudspersons 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 Further information relating to the topic: Good Scientific Practice Ombudspersons Equal Opportunity Officers Lara Wallberg Tel.: +49 (0)40 41173-317 lara.wallberg@mpimet.mpg.de Olga Palienko Tel.: +49 (0)40 41173-296 olga.palienko@mpimet.mpg.de Lin Lin Tel.: +49 (0)40 41173-162 lin.lin@mpimet.mpg.de Further…

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Technical milestone reached: global Earth system simulations with 1.2 km resolution

Figure: Global 1.2 km ICON-ESM simulation with zoom on the Agulhas stream

The Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) has opened a new chapter in Earth System Modelling that has been a dream for climate scientists and seemed very distant for ages.

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Earth´s orbit and greenhouse gas concentrations influence African humid periods

Savannah with mountains of Ennedi Plateau in the background

In a new study, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology have investigated what caused African humid periods to vary in duration and strength in the past. They found that changes in the Earth´s orbit are the most important factor and that there is a critical threshold that affects the onset of a greening Sahara. This threshold for the onset of an African humid period also varies with greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere: At a higher greenhouse gas concentration, the…

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One of a kind in Germany: New high-performance computer for Earth system research inaugurated

Photo: Supercomputer Levante in bluish light

A new supercomputer named “Levante” was inaugurated at the German Climate Computing Center (DKRZ) on 22 September 2022. For the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, it represents the essential research infrastructure for climate modeling. The supercomputer is virtually the laboratory and main tool of the researchers and thus of utmost importance for cutting-edge research. The new high-performance computer system is about 5 times more powerful than its predecessor and opens up new perspectives…

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Federal Order of Merit for Klaus Hasselmann

Photo: Award of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany by the Federal President Dr. Frank-Walter Steinmeier to Prof. Dr. Klaus Hasselman

Prof. Klaus Hasselmann, founding director of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) and Nobel Laureate in Physics 2021, was honored with the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany by President Frank-Walter Steinmeier at Schloss Bellevue in Berlin on September 2, 2022. He receives the award for his services to climate research. The MPI-M is pleased with him and congratulates him warmly.

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Peter Landschützer appointed research director at the VLIZ in Ostend

Dr. Peter Landschützer, scientist in the department "The Ocean in the Earth System" at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) and head of the group "Observations, Analysis and Synthesis", will be the new research director at the Belgian Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ; Flanders Marine Institute) in Ostend. Starting in September 2022, he will serve as director in climate research there, but will continue to work closely with colleagues at MPI-M in the context of CO2 measurements.…

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Chetankumar Jalihal wins Roddam Family Medal for best PhD thesis

The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) awarded the Roddam Family Medal for the best PhD thesis in 2020 to Dr. Chetankumar (“Chetan”) A. Jalihal, who has been working in the department “The Ocean in the Earth System” at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) since August 2020, first in a scholarship, now as a postdoctoral scientist. He received the award in India on 27 July 2022.

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A curious symmetry in the distribution of tropical precipitation

A curious symmetry in the distribution of tropical precipitation is that it rains as much over land as it does over the ocean, in both cases about 3 mm/day. This seems to suggest that the properties of the surface, being land or ocean, do not affect the partitioning of precipitation between the two — a surprising thought given that the land, in contrast to the ocean, cannot directly tap into an unlimited water reservoir. In a paper published this month in AGU Advances, Dr. Cathy Hohenegger and…

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The Future of Climate Modeling — the Kilometer Scale

Climate change poses new questions for climate science; questions that cannot be answered by the present generation of climate models. There is no doubt that the world is getting warmer — if warming continues at its current rate, by 2035 average global temperatures will be about 1.5 °C warmer than they were in the late 19th century. And we know that the warming is disproportionately due to the burning of fossil fuels, by humans. What we don’t know, at least not with the level of precision…

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Tatiana Ilyina successfully habilitated at Universität Hamburg

Dr. Tatiana Ilyina, scientist and leader of the group “Ocean Biogeochemistry” at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M), was awarded her Habilitation (the highest qualification level in the German university system) on 30 June 2022. The MPI-M congratulates warmly.

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New book about Klaus Hasselmann

The book “From decoding turbulence to unveiling the fingerprint of climate change: Klaus Hasselmann-Nobel Prize Winner in Physics 2021” has recently been published by Springer.