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W 2 position for Cathy Hohenegger in acknowledgement of her scientific accomplishments

Dr. Cathy Hohenegger was appointed a W 2 position in the department “The Atmosphere in the Earth System” at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M). The institute warmly congratulates her on her outstanding achievements as recognized with this position. She joins Prof. Victor Brovkin and Prof. Jin-Song von Storch, both members of the department “The Ocean in the Earth System”, as one of only three scientists at MPI-M to have obtained this recognition.

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New high-performance computer for Germany´s climate science

On March 03, 2022, the new high-performance computer system for Earth system research "Levante" started its operation at the German Climate Computing Center (DKRZ) in the first expansion stage. With 14 PetaFLOPS (14 quadrillion mathematical operations per second), the supercomputer quadruples the computing power at DKRZ.

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What controls the millennial-scale climate variability in simulations of the last deglaciation?

The transition between the last glacial maximum (LGM, about 21,000 years before present) and present, which is referred to as the last deglaciation, was characterized by a significant warming and a series of abrupt climate changes. By conducting a first systematic ensemble of hindcast simulations for the last deglaciation with the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology Earth System Model (MPI-ESM), Marie Kapsch, Uwe Mikolajewicz, Clemens Schannwell (scientists at Max Planck Institute for…

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Finding attractors of dynamical systems via recurrences

In a publication, recently selected as a Featured Article, in Chaos, Dr. George Datseris (Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M)) and Associate Professor Alexandre Wagemakers (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain) provide an algorithm that can estimate attractors and their basins for arbitrary dynamical systems.

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The driving forces of the terrestrial carbon cycle predictability

Although the global carbon cycle is predictable to some extent, we know little about the source of the memory in the system. In a study published in Earth System Dynamics, the authors Istvan Dunkl, Dr. Aaron Spring, Prof. Victor Brovkin (scientists at Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M)) together with Prof. Pierre Friedlingstein (College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences, University of Exeter, UK) have explored the question which environmental variables are responsible…

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A Quantification of Natural Forcing Contributions on Multi-Decadal North Atlantic Temperature Variability over the Past Millennium

In a new study in Geophysical Research Letters Dr. Shih-Wei Fang, Dr. Claudia Timmreck, and Dr. Johann Jungclaus from the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Prof. Davide Zanchettin from the University of Venice and Dr. Myriam Khodri from the Institute Pierre-Simone Laplace in Paris show, that the natural external forcing, including volcanic aerosols and insolation changes, accounts for ~25% of the multi-decadal North Atlantic temperature variations in a multi-model ensemble of simulations…

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“Glaciers are the planet’s early warning system”: Ellen Mosley-Thompson and Lonnie Thompson win BBVA Climate Change Award

This year's recipients of the BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Climate Change Category are Prof. Ellen Mosley-Thompson and Prof. Lonnie Thompson who are both paleoclimatologists at Ohio State University. The jury recognized the two laureates „ for advancing the knowledge and understanding of past and current climate change through persistent, dedicated ice‐core research in the vanishing high mountain glaciers of the tropics and mid latitudes“. Their glacier ice studies show that our…

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Tatiana Ilyina becoming Co-Chair of Working Group Coupled Modelling in the World Climate Research Program (WCRP)

Dr. Tatiana Ilyina, group leader of the “Ocean biogeochemistry” group in the department “The Ocean in the Earth System”, became co-chair of Working Group Coupled Modelling (WGCM) in the World Climate Research Program (WCRP) starting in January 2022. She will thereby replace Catherine Senior, MetOffice, UK, after her six years term as co-chair, who will stay until the end of 2022 for a hand-over period. The MPI-M congratulates Tatiana Ilyina to this nomination.

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Radiosonde measurements of the intertropical convergence zone

On 27 June 2021, the research vessel RV SONNE set off under the cruise guidance of Prof. Peter Brandt from GEOMAR in Kiel and co-leader Dr. Julia Windmiller from the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology.

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Holocene vegetation transitions and their climatic drivers in MPI-ESM1.2

Do we understand the migration of global vegetation patterns over the last millennia during the transition from the mid Holocene some 8000 years ago to present-day climate? Can we even predict what to expect in paleo-botanical records based on what we know? To tackle these questions Anne Dallmeyer, Martin Claussen (both MPI-M), Ulrike Herzschuh (AWI) and co-authors have explored the natural vegetation dynamics by analyzing Holocene simulations with the MPI-ESM1.2. The authors have identified…

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Curiosity Meets Discovery

It was our turn on 16 December 2021, and Prof. Bjorn Stevens held a talk about “Understanding Climate Science”.

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Atmospheric data treasure for the trade wind region collected, processed, and made available

Thirteen scientists from Germany, France and the United States collaborated to collect measurements and process them into a dataset that provides a rich characterization of the thermodynamic and kinematic aspects of the atmosphere in the North Atlantic trades. The effort was led by Dr. Geet George, a post-doctoral scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, who was also responsible for the dropsonde operations aboard the HALO aircraft during the EUREC4A field campaign in 2020.