Important visitors: Olaf Scholz and Dorothee Stapelfeldt at the KlimaCampus
Hamburg's First Mayor Olaf Scholz and Senator for Science Dr Dorothee Stapelfeldt visited the KlimaCampus on 20 January to inform themselves on site about the scientific work of the respective institutions. In addition to a...
Wladimir Peter Köppen Award 2011 for Florian Rauser
For the third time the Cluster of Excellence CliSAP at the KlimaCampus, University of Hamburg, has given recognition to excellent PhD theses. This year there will be two young recipients of the Wladimir Peter Köppen Award for...
A search for large-scale effects of ship emissions on clouds and radiation in satellite data
This publication was chosen as research highlight by Nature Climate Change Aerosols released by ships can locally induce brighter or even new clouds, but it has been unclear whether this phenomenon extends far beyond the...
Isaac Held wins important Climate Change Award
Isaac M. Held, member of MPI-M’s Scientific Advisory Board, is the winner of the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award 2012 in the Climate Change category for his fundamental contribution to understanding the structure of...
Multi-year prediction of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation at 26.5 °N possible
Climate scientists around Dr. Daniela Matei and Prof. Dr. Jochem Marotzke from the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) and Prof. Dr. Johanna Baehr from Hamburg University's Cluster of Excellence "CliSAP" have...
"Climate Change Mitigation Through the Freeloader Effect" - Interview with Jochem Marotzke about the UN Climate Change Conference in Durban
On the occasion of the UN Climate Change Conference in Durban, South Africa, Jochem Marotzke, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, talks about the climate summit’s chances of producing a result and...
A winning formula for climate change conferences?
The likelihood of damage caused by climate change in the medium term could bring poor and rich countries to effectively reduce carbon dioxide emissions A global agreement on effective climate change mitigation could be...
Scientific symposium to honour MPI-M’s founding director Klaus Hasselmann
On 9 and 10 November 2011, the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) hosted a scientific symposium with around 150 guests to honour the scientific work of Prof. Dr. Klaus Hasselmann, who founded the Max Planck Institute...
Changing Permafrost in the Arctic and its Global Effects in the 21st Century: EU project launch of “PAGE21"
What happens when the vast amounts of carbon stored in Arctic soils are released into the atmosphere? This is the central question of a newly launched EU project named "PAGE21" which brings together field researchers,...
WATCH Project: Researchers Put New Spin on World's Water Cycle
The final report of the Water and Global Change programme (WATCH), an extensive analysis of the world's water resources, was made available on 13 October 2011, significantly expanding our understanding of climate change and land...
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