A new study led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, in collaboration with scientists from the University of Hamburg, shows that future Arctic methane emissions may not depend on whether thawing permafrost soils dry out or not. They also found that the hydrological conditions of the permafrost soils not only have a local impact but could even influence methane emissions in the tropics.
In convective storms, the air that goes down is almost as important as the air that goes up. These convective downdrafts influence the termination of updrafts, near surface air properties, surface winds. However, predicting downdrafts under specific atmospheric conditions is difficult because their properties depend on several interrelated processes. In a new study led by Dr. Julia Windmiller, scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology and the Australian Research Council Centre of…
Never before in millions of years has our planet warmed so rapidly as today. A deeply concerning manifestation of this change is the world’s recent and repeated exposure to unprecedented weather events that has resulted in increasingly frequent, tragic, and expensive natural disasters. Record-breaking heatwaves, forest and bush fires, riverine and coastal floods, droughts, and sea level rise are now threatening our present and future. Communities worldwide expect timely and accurate guidance to…
Prof. Tiffany Shaw, internationally renowned atmospheric physicist at the University of Chicago, has been selected by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award in recognition of her outstanding research accomplishments.
Earth system models exhibit large inter-model differences in the simulated climate of the Arctic and subarctic zone, with varying sea ice concentrations, surface temperatures, evapotranspiration rates and precipitation levels. A new study, led by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in collaboration with scientists of the Universities of Hamburg and Madrid and the Norwegian Research Centre, investigated the parametrization of the soil hydrology in permafrost affected regions…
2015
Stevens, B. (2015). Rethinking the Lower Bound on Aerosol Radiative Forcing. Journal of Climate, 28(12), 4794–4819. doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00656.1
2016
Bittner, M., H. Schmidt, C. Timmreck, and F. Sienz (2016). Using a large ensemble of simulations to assess the Northern Hemisphere stratospheric dynamical response to tropical volcanic eruptions and its uncertainty. Geophysical Research Letters, 43, 9324-9332. doi: 10.1002/2016GL070587 Rädel, G., T. Mauritsen,…
In a new study in Climate of the Past Dr. Thomas Kleinen and Prof. Victor Brovkin, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, together with Dr. Sergey Gromov and Dr. Benedikt Steil from the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, performed the first-ever simulations of the evolution of climate and methane for the entire period from the last glacial period to the present, with the model considering all relevant sources and sinks of methane. In their pioneering study, Kleinen and…
Dr. Julia Windmiller is the new scientific head of the group “Tropical Cloud Observations”. The group collects and uses observational data of tropical clouds and atmospheric convection. Its goal is to deepen the understanding of tropical clouds and to test hypotheses about the role of clouds and convection for the climate. Together with Dr. Lutz Hirsch, who has led the group so far and who will continue to serve as technical lead and coordinator, and the other team members, Dr. Windmiller will…
Dr. Tamara Emmerichs
Room: B 328 Phone: +49 (0)40 41173-461
Tamara Emmerichs
Christina Rieckers
Room: B 203 (MPI-M) Phone: +49 (0)40 41173-159
Christina Rieckers
Dr. Ulrike Niemeier
Room: B 418 Phone: +49 (0)40 41173-130
Dr. Ulrike Niemeier
Dr Nele Müller
Room: B 021 (CEN) Phone: +49 (0)40 42838-4327
Dr Nele Müller
Dr Armin Köhl
Room: B 138 Phone: +49 (0)40 42838-7473
Armin Köhl
Seminars
Seminars
Find all upcoming Joint Seminars and KlimaCampus Colloquia here in our…
