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Approximately 70 % of Earth’s surface is covered by oceans, making the interaction between ocean and atmosphere one of the most critical drivers of weather and climate. Yet, the vast majority of conventional meteorological observation stations are located on land. While satellite observations help fill the data gap over the oceans, obtaining high-resolution measurements near the ocean surface remains a major challenge—despite this region being the primary zone for air-sea exchange, which…

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EUREC4A

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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FESSTVaL

Mature thunderstorms appear as impressive weather phenomena: clusters of thunderstorms can extend over hundreds of kilometers in the horizontal and reach up to the tropopause, about 10 km, in the vertical. But the life of these impressive convective storms starts rather modestly, from small convective clouds of scale O(1 km). How these small and shallow clouds become deep mature clouds is not completely understood, but one idea is that the transition from shallow to deep clouds is helped by…

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ORCESTRA

BOW-TIE is one of eight independent measurement campaigns carried out under the umbrella of ORCESTRA. Infrastructure: Research Vessel METEOR Region: Tropical Atlantic Campaign period: August and September 2024, continuous measurements during weather events Scientific director: Dr. Daniel Klocke, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology Coordination: Yuting Wu, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology Steckbrief PERCUSION is one of eight independent measurement campaigns carried out under…

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Destination Earth

Duration 10/2021–08/2025 Duration Funded by European Union Funded by As a result of societal changes and climate change, societies are becoming ever more exposed to weather related extremes. At the same time, our ability to anticipate these changes, both at short and long-timescales, are hindered by the poor regional fidelity of existing climate information systems. To overcome this shortcoming, DestinE will build two different digital replicas of the complex Earth system…

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Modeling

ICON, which obtains its name from the usage of spherical grids derived from the icosahedron (ICO) and the non-hydrostatic (N) dynamics, originated as a joint project of the MPI-M and the German Weather Service (Deutscher Wetterdienst, DWD) and has expanded to involve more development partners at the German Climate Computing Center (DKRZ), the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). It includes component models for the atmosphere,…

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Environmental Modeling

The long-term plan of the Environmental Modeling Group is to develop integrated modeling approaches that combine approaches from different disciplines and address societally important environmental questions associated with human development. Questions of large importance, perhaps exacerbated by climate change, population growth, urbanisation, industrialisation and intensive agricultural practices, are addressed by the group. An important priority is to assess the impact of…

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Climate Vegetation Dynamics

Contact: Prof. Dr. Martin Claussen Group leader Phone: +49 (0)40 41173-212 martin.claussen@mpimet.mpg.de Contact: Climate shapes vegetation, and vegetation in turn changes climate, for example, by soils and plants reflecting sunlight differently or by plants cooling an otherwise dry environment through transpiration. The Climate Vegetation Dynamics Group aims at understanding these terrestrial biogeophysical feedback processes in the Earth's climate system. To this end, we address the…

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Independent Research Groups

Application information The Max Planck Society’s Earth and Solar system Research Partnership (ESRP), comprising the Max Planck Institutes (MPIs) for Biogeochemistry (Jena), Chemistry (Mainz) , Meteorology (Hamburg) , and Solar System Research (Göttingen) , offers Opportunities in Earth and Solar System Research for independent early-career scientists. MPIs offer a richly stimulating intellectual environment and powerful infrastructure and facilities. All four institutes of the ESRP…

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Earth System Modeling and Predictions

Dr. Wolfgang A. Müller

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Multiscale Cloud Physics – Lise Meitner Group

Our research is motivated by the complex processes and interactions within the climate system and we develop approaches to capture this complexity. We especially explore the multiscale nature of the atmosphere as manifested through clouds: Microscopic cloud droplets and cloud ice form with the help of even smaller atmospheric aerosols. Zooming out, they fuse into the fractal shapes of individual clouds which puzzle the casual observer. Taking a bird's-eye view from space, we can see that…

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Climate and Weather Extremes

Dr. Chao Li