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🌏 Earth's radiation budget has been out of balance due to anthropogenic emissions, resulting in #GlobalWarming. Recently, the trend has become stronger. Upon invitation by #MPIM scientists, 44 researchers from Europe, Asia, & the US met at Schloss Ringberg 🏰 last week to discuss which processes might be responsible, & to come up with a research program to solve this conundrum. It was an intensive, productive, & enjoyable week – thanks for your hard work & your insightful contributions!✨

MPI für Meteorologie 4d ago

🌱 Excited to have welcomed @HumboldtStiftung's Climate Protection Fellows from across the globe today. This fellowship empowers young experts from the Global South to tackle the urgent challenges of #ClimateChange. It was a great exchange! We hope you have a great time for the rest of your trip & wish you every success with your projects!! 🌍
More info about the fellowship: https://www.humboldt-foundation.de/en/apply/sponsorship-programmes/international-climate-protection-fellowship
#ScienceCareers #SustainabilityResearch #MPIM #DKRZ

MPI für Meteorologie Mar 3

🌊 The North Atlantic significantly influences the weather in Europe. For instance, a cold spell in the subpolar North Atlantic can lead to a heat wave in Europe. 🔥 In a new study by @geomar_de & #MPIM, Julian Krüger et al. show that climate models represent this relationship much more realistically when ocean dynamics are resolved in sufficient detail. 📚 https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-03145-9
🗺️ Adapted from CC BY 4.0 Krüger et al. 2026
#ClimateScience #OceanDynamics #ClimateChange #WeatherExtremes

MPI für Meteorologie Feb 27

🌊 This week, ocean scientists from across the globe gathered in Glasgow for the Ocean Sciences Meeting 2026.
Researchers from many disciplines shared new results, exchanged ideas, and strengthened international collaborations. 13 of our #MPIM ocean scientists took part, presenting their work, contributing to discussions, and engaging with colleagues. Thanks to everyone who connected with us in Glasgow. We look forward to continuing the conversations.👋

#OceanSciencesMeeting #Oceanography #OSM26

MPI für Meteorologie Feb 24

🧊 How stable is Greenland’s ice sheet? New #MPIM research reveals 4️⃣ different steady states of the Greenland #IceSheet under a pre-industrial climate. Using a novel fully-coupled Earth System-Ice Sheet Model, Malena Andernach et al. found a critical threshold of 70-83% of pre-industrial ice volume, below which 50-80% of its current volume would be irreversibly lost even if returning to pre-industrial CO2 concentrations.

🗺️ CC BY 4.0 Andernach et al. 2026
📖 https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/20/1047/2026/
#ClimateChange

MPI für Meteorologie Feb 23

Unsere Forscherin Claudia Timmreck diskutiert morgen beim Herrenhäuser Forum der #Volkswagenstiftung neben weiteren spannenden Gästen die Bedeutung der #Grundlagenforschung für den Fortschritt. 🎥 Es wird ein #Livestream angeboten: https://www.volkswagenstiftung.de/de/veranstaltungen/die-bedeutung-von-grundlagenforschung-fuer-den-fortschritt
📆 Los geht's am 24.2. um 19 Uhr!

Claudia hatte kürzlich mit Julia Windmiller (#MPIM/Monash Univ.) & Eleonora Rohland (Uni Bielefeld) eine Förderung der Volkswagenstiftung für das Projekt DOLDRUMS eingeworben. Mehr dazu: https://doldrums.eu

MPI für Meteorologie Feb 20

🧩 The eastern tropical Pacific & the Southern Ocean have cooled despite #globalWarming, a trend which existing climate models have failed to capture. 🔦Using a new generation of climate models, #MPIM researchers Sarah Kang et al. shed light on this puzzle by demonstrating the 1st successful representation of the observed trend & delivering a well-founded explanation of the underlying mechanisms with our high-res #ICON model. 🌏 Read in PNAS: 🔗 https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2522161123
CC BY 4.0 Kang et al. 2026

MPI für Meteorologie Feb 17

🌊 @TatianaIlyina has been appointed director at the MPI for Marine Microbiology in #Bremen! Congratulations on this fantastic success!🎉

From 2010-2026 Tatiana led a research group at #MPIM, simultaneously taking on a professorship at the University of Hamburg #UHH & @hereon in 2023.

We're sad to see her leave, and at the same time we're excited to see the groundbreaking research she is going to conduct in her new role! Here's to an exciting new chapter! 👏
#Oceanography #ClimateScience

MPI für Meteorologie Feb 13

The #MPIM mourns the loss of one of the most influential researchers in its history: Erich Roeckner passed away in February 2026, at the age of 84. He was known as the developer of the ECHAM atmospheric model, which formed the basis for many generations of climate models used at our institute and contributed to all #IPCC assessment reports. He will be remembered as one of the leading figures of the #ClimateScience community and as a perfect gentleman. 🔗 https://mpimet.mpg.de/en/communication/detail-view-news-homepage/hamburg-climate-researcher-erich-roeckner-has-died
Credit: MPI-M

MPI für Meteorologie Feb 10

🌬️❓How are the frequency, strength, and trajectories of storms in the #GermanBight going to change under #GlobalWarming? A study by Daniel Krieger (#MPIM) & Ralf Weisse (@hereon) reveals that most current climate models predict a decrease in #storm activity in the future. However, when storms do occur, they may be more severe than today. One possible explanation is a change in storm tracks, but this needs to be investigated further.
📖 https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-17-1-2026
📸 Credit: Hereon/Ina Frings