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.…
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.
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…
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…
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.
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.
Nine of the world´s leading climate scientists are calling for major international investment to develop a new generation of climate models that can answer fundamental questions about the predictability of future precipitation and related extreme events.
In a new study in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, Dr. Oliver Gutjahr (Universität Hamburg, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M)) and his colleagues Dr. Johann Jungclaus (MPI-M), Dr. Nils Brüggemann (Universität Hamburg, MPI-M), Dr. Helmuth Haak, and Prof. Jochem Marotzke (both MPI-M), investigate for the first time in a global storm- and eddy-resolving (5 km) model the interaction of atmosphere and ocean during a katabatic storm in the Irminger Sea off the coast of…
The Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) is successfully involved in the new EU project EERIE (European Eddy-RIch Earth system models). Principal Investigator is Prof. Dr. Jin-Song von Storch from the department “The Ocean in the Earth System”.
Prof. Hartmut Grassl was awarded the Max Born Medal at the annual meeting of the Federation of German Scientists (VDW) for his services to the climate debate.
Dr. Claudia Stephan (Max Planck Institute for Meteorology) and her colleagues Dr. Julia Duras, Dr. Lucas Harris, Dr. Daniel Klocke, Dr. William M. Putman, Dr. Mark Taylor, Dr. Nils P. Wedi, Prof. Nedjeljka Žagar and Dr. Florian Ziemen published a new article in the journal Tellus A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography. The authors investigate the complex, multiscale nature of atmospheric variability in 40-day long integrations of five different global storm-resolving models with…
In a publication in Weather, a journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, Prof. Jochem Marotzke (Max Planck Institute for Meteorology), Dr. Sebastian Milinski (currently NCAR, Boulder, USA) and Dr. Chris Jones of the Met Office, UK, answer questions about global warming.
