Dr. Laura Köhler and Dr. Claudia Stephan from the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology together with their colleague Brian Green, Postdoc at Stanford University, used superpressure balloons to test the ability of global storm-resolving models to represent convectively induced gravity waves. They find that the models’ spatial structure of the wave field, including their spatial correlation as a function of distances, matches the observations well, but the amplitude of the background flux in the…
Prof. Jin-Song von Storch (née Xu) is Deputy Director of the Climate Variability Department and leads the Egergetics of Climate Working Group. She is also a professor (§17) at the University of Hamburg
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Born December 12, 1961 in Beijing, China Married to Hans von Storch
Education
PhD (1990): Meteorology, University of Hamburg. Dissertation: "Analysis and Prediction of El Niño Southern Oscilaltion Phenomenon Using Principal Oscillation Pattern Analysis".
Diploma…
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3270-610X
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Research interests
vegetation dynamics and large-scale vegetation changes
interactions between climate and vegetation
monsoon systems and their role in the global atmospheric circulation
paleoclimate, focus Holocene
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When she opens the door to her office and invites you in with a friendly smile, it quickly becomes clear: Sarah Kang is still new at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology. The room is half empty, some of the office furniture has not yet been delivered and there are unpacked moving boxes in the corner. It was only in August that the Korean woman took up her post as Director of a new department — the Climate Dynamics department. Now, two months later, everything seems to be going well: Kang's…
Professor Tiffany Shaw, who is a recipient of the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and a globally acclaimed atmospheric physicist affiliated with the University of Chicago, chose the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) in Hamburg as her host institution for a period of one year. During her research stay, she will extend her work on the response of extra-tropical storm-tracks to include factors influencing their inter-hemispheric asymmetry.
The RAPID observing system has monitored the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) at 26.5°N since 2004. Many physical oceanographers and climate scientists routinely use these measurements or refer to them, and the observing system’s 20th anniversary in April 2024 marks it as one of the longest dynamical time series in oceanography. But the history of ideas that have led to the establishment of the RAPID monitoring system has been shrouded in mystery for all but a select few. In a…
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Sarah M. Kang, PhD
Director Tel.: +49 (0)40 41173-437 sarah.kang@mpimet.mpg.de
Elke Lord
Assistant Tel.: +49 (0)40 41173-438 elke.lord@mpimet.mpg.de
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Department Climate Dynamics
Department Climate Dynamics
We aim to advance our fundamental understanding of global climate dynamics by employing a unique research strategy that involves systematically combining a hierarchy of models with principle-based theories. Our focus centers on exploring the mechanisms that…
