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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.

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Award of the Nobel Prize in Physics 2021 to Klaus Hasselmann in Berlin

The wait is over: our founding director was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2021 in a ceremony at the Harnack House in Berlin on December 7, 2021.

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Predicting global warming: how water vapor affects the radiative forcing of CO2

In a new study in Geophysical Research Letters, Dr. Lukas Kluft, Dr. Sally Dacie, Prof. Dr. Bjorn Stevens (scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology) and Dr. Manfred Brath and Prof. Dr. Stefan A. Buehler (both scientists at Universität Hamburg) show that the use of a widely used radiative transfer scheme leads to incorrect predictions of changes in climate sensitivity.

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SC21 Best Visualization Award for MPI-M, DKRZ, University Stockholm, and Intel Corporation

A joint team of the German Climate Computing Centre (DKRZ), the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M), the Stockholm University, and the Intel Corporation has won the SC21 Best Visualization Award for their visualization “Putting the Ocean into the Center: A coupled ICON Atmosphere/Ocean Simulation in Spilhaus Projection”.

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Global Carbon Project: Tracking the fate of man-made CO2

After the global average of fossil carbon dioxide emissions dropped significantly in 2020, this year they are again approaching levels before the COVID-19 pandemic. This is the finding of the Global Carbon Project (GCP). Every year, scientists take stock of how much CO2 has been anthropogenically emitted around the world and is absorbed again by natural sinks.

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Humidity differences and their effect on the clear-sky radiation budget in global storm-resolving models

In a new study in the Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems Theresa Lang, Dr. Ann Kristin Naumann, Prof. Bjorn Stevens and Prof. Stefan A. Bühler show that the model disagreement in the distribution of tropical humidity is reduced in the next generation of global climate models.

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NextGEMS video clip release

NextGEMS is building prototypes for a new generation of Earth system models to advance science, guide policy, and inform applications to support the sustainable management of our planet. As a collaborative European project funded by the EU's Horizon 2020 programme, NextGEMS will tap expertise from fourteen European Nations to develop two next generation (storm-resolving) Earth-system Models, one being the ICON model developed at MPI-M.