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Department Climate Variability
The department investigates climate and Earth-system variability on all timescales from seasonal to millennial. The main research tools are coupled ocean-atmosphere and Earth-system models, but observations, statistical analysis, and data assimilation are also employed to improve the understanding of past, current, and future climate variability. A particular focus lies on the role of the ocean in climate variability and change. The department is the home of the ocean component of…
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Director's Research Group
The Arctic region has undergone the most rapid surface warming observed globally in recent decades. Arctic variability may be important for influencing mid-latitude weather, but the question how and how much is under debate. We investigate dynamical processes linking the Arctic to midlatitude weather and climate in climate model simulations and observation-based reanalyses. In a recent publication (Tyrlis et al., 2019), we highlighted the central role of atmospheric blocking, when…
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Complex Modelling and Extreme Computing
Dr. Nils Brüggemann / Dr. Peter Korn
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Barbados Cloud Observatory
To help answer long standing questions about the statistical properties of shallow cumulus clouds and their link to our changing climate, measurements and a continuous data set are needed. Therefore, the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology together with the Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology and several other participating institutions established a cloud observatory on the island of Barbados. The research station “Barbados Cloud Observatory” at the easternmost…
