In a recent study, Dr. Cathy Hohenegger, group leader in the climate physics department, reports on the measurement effort called the Field Experiment on Submesoscale Spatio-Temporal Variability in Lindenberg, in short FESSTVaL. The authors present FESSTVaL’s measurement strategy and show first observational results including unprecedented highly-resolved patterns of pools of cold air below thunderstorms, so-called cold pools. Such cold pools are important for the lifecycle of thunderstorms.
The 2024 Nobel Laureate Fellowship will be awarded to Lin Lin who will start her project in February hosted by the Department Climate Variability. In the working group Climate Energetics, led by Jin-Song von Storch, awardee Lin Lin will focus on the interpretation of unforced climate variability, which is planned to be explained in terms of two approaches: a system-approach and a process-approach.
The scientific and research community in Germany and Switzerland is setting a milestone in climate and weather research: Since January 31, 2024, the renowned climate and weather model ICON has been made available to the public under an open source license. This groundbreaking step contributes to making science and scientific services more transparent. At the same time, it enables further scientific progress in an area from which society can particularly benefit in times of climate change.
Prof. Bjorn Stevens is the Managing Director of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology where he leads the department Climate Physics. He is also a professor (§17) at the University of Hamburg.
Personal History
Born 19 April, 1966, Augsburg Germany Family: Married (Andrea Brose); two children, Saskia (born 1997), Anouk (born 1999)
Education
Ph.D. Atmospheric Science, 1992-1996, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO, USA Dissertation: "On the Dynamics of…
Exhibition about the Nobel Prize laureates of the Max Planck Society
The touring exhibition developed on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Max Planck Society is now visiting Hamburg from January 24 and will conclude on March 1 at the Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky State and University Library as part of a finissage with a panel discussion.
The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Climate Change category has gone to five European scientists whose pioneering research on polar ice samples established a “fundamental coupling” between greenhouse gas concentrations and rising air temperatures across the planet over the past 800,000 years. The laureates were announced by Bjorn Stevens, committee chair and director at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, on 10 January 2024.
Claudia Stephan has recently been appointed Professor of Theoretical Atmospheric Physics by the University of Rostock and will simultaneously take over as Head of the “Modelling of Atmospheric Processes” department at the Leibniz Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP) in Kühlungsborn from January 2024. The Max Planck Institute for Meteorology cordially congratulates her on this success.
EUREC4A
EUREC4A
In January and February 2020, an international measurement campaign in the trade wind region took place on and around the Caribbean island of Barbados under the leadership of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg and the CNRS of the Sorbonne University in Paris. It aimed to understand how the trade wind clouds respond to and possibly contribute to climate warming.
EUREC4A involved four research vessels, three aircraft, various autonomous and remotely operated…
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Nobel Week Lights 2023 kicked off in Stockholm on Monday. The Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) provides data from its Barbados Cloud Observatory for the light festival, which are used to pay tribute to the research of Nobel Prize winner Prof. Klaus Hasselmann in form of an artwork.
Extreme heat and drought typical of an end-of-century climate could soon occur over Europe, and it could do so repeatedly. Laura Suarez-Gutierrez, MSCA Fellow at ETHZ and formerly at Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M), in collaboration with MPI-M scientists Wolfgang Müller and Jochem Marotzke, show that single and compound heat and drought stress typical of an end-of-century climate could occur over Europe within the next two decades, and that it could occur again in consecutive…
The satellite mission Wivern has been selected by the European Space Agency ESA as one of two remaining candidates to progress to the next development phase of ESA’s eleventh Earth Explorer satellite mission. Dr. Cathy Hohenegger, group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in the Climate Physics department, was involved in the development of the mission proposal and is a member of the Wivern scientific advisory team.
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