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.
In a new study in Climate of the Past Dr Thomas Kleinen, Uwe Mikolajewicz, and Prof Victor Brovkin, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M), were able to show that the changes in methane concentration between the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM, about 20000 years ago) and the preindustrial late Holocene (PI), 300 years ago, can be explained entirely by changes in the natural methane emissions caused by environmental changes.
At a very basic level the main job of the climate system is to redistribute energy, specifically solar energy that is received from the sun is converted to thermal energy (or enthalpy) that can then be radiated back to space. The efficiency of this process is what sets the global temperature. This redistribution, and its efficiency, depends on two major modes of enthalpy transport, one from the equator to the poles, the other from the surface to the atmosphere. Existing climate models are…
The Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) warmly congratulates Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. mult. Hartmut Graßl on the occasion of his 80th birthday on 18 March 2020.
AQ-Watch (Air Quality - Worldwide Analysis & Forecasting of Atmospheric Composition for Health), a new project in the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme, has been launched. It is coordinated by Prof Dr Guy Brasseur at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M). Partners in the project will co-develop and co-produce tailored products and services that can be used by governmental institutions (at local, regional and national levels) and private companies in…
From 20 January through 20 February 2020, the EUREC4A (Elucidating the role of clouds-circulation coupling in climate) field study investigated trade wind clouds in the Tropical Atlantic. The international field study aims at advancing understanding of the interplay between clouds, convection and circulation and their role in climate change.
Dr. Peter Korn, scientist and head of the group "Applied Mathematics and Computational Physics" in the department "The Ocean in the Earth System" at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) successfully habilitated on January 23, 2020.
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