The International Max Planck Research School on Earth System Modelling (IMPRS-ESM) is a PhD programme jointly run by the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) and Universität Hamburg since 2002. Recently Prof Martin Claussen, Director and Head of the PhD programme at MPI-M, and Dr Antje Weitz, Coordinator of the IMPRS-ESM, celebrated the 200th doctoral candidate: Diego Jiménez de la Cuesta Otero successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled „Historical Warming and Climate Sensitivity“.
A new study in Nature Climate Change, led by Paul Keil of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, uses climate model simulations to identify additional drivers of the so-called North Atlantic warming hole.
A new study by Dr Nicola Maher, Dr Flavio Lehner and Prof Jochem Marotzke demonstrates that in the coming 15 years any individual point on the globe in climate models could observe a cooling (or lack of warming) trend even under increasing greenhouse gas emissions.
In two new publications, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) studied the current and future development of extreme heat events. They identified major risk hotspots for different forms of extreme heat under different global warming levels, and disentangled the drivers of increasingly intense European heat extremes.
In a new study Aaron Spring and Dr. Tatiana Ilyina, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M), were able to show that the atmospheric CO2 concentration is predictable for three years in advance [Fig. 1 c] and that the land carbon cycle limits longer predictability.
The Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) congratulates its former director, Prof Dr Dr hc mult Hartmut Graßl, for his honorary membership of the German Meteorological Society (DMG). Hartmut Graßl receives honorary membership "in recognition of his outstanding services to meteorological science and his early, very passionate and scientifically based contribution to the public debate on anthropogenic climate change" (quote from the DMG laudation).
An assessment of Aerosol Radiative Forcing by Nicolas Bellouin, Johannes Quaas and thirty additional co-authors appeared in AGU Advancing Earth and Space Science, Reviews of Geophysics. The assessment is an outcome of a process initiated by Prof Bjorn Stevens in the framework of the WCRP Grand Challenge Program on Clouds, Circulation and Climate Sensitivity which he co-leads with Dr Sandrine Bony, LMD/CNRS, Paris, France. In addition to Bjorn Stevens, co-authors from the Max Planck Institute…
A new study by Bjorn Stevens et al. in the Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan describes the added value of kilometer (convective storm resolving) and hectometer (large-eddy resolving) simulations for the representation of clouds and precipitation processes in climate models.
Ten years ago, the department “The Atmosphere in the Earth System”, led by Prof Bjorn Stevens, at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) together with the Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology (CIMH) and the Barbados Museum & Historical Society set up a research site at the east-most point of the island of Barbados to observe trade wind clouds with state-of-the-art remote sensing instruments.
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