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🧳 🌏 Last month, a delegation from #MPIM and #DKRZ visited key research partners in Singapore, Shanghai, & Beijing.🇸🇬🇨🇳 The trip highlighted strong synergies and laid the groundwork for future collaboration in #ClimateModeling, impact assessment, and #AI-driven innovation.🧠 It reinforced the value of sustained partnerships in advancing climate research and supporting societal resilience—and of science in connecting people from different parts of the world. 💫
#ClimateScience #ScienceDiplomacy

MPI für Meteorologie 4d ago

🎶 Music to our ears: ORCESTRA paper published!

🌦️ In 2024, the ORCESTRA field campaign examined #cloud organization in the tropical Atlantic using 3 research aircraft, ✈️ 2 ground stations, 📡 a research vessel, ⛴️ & the #EarthCARE satellite.🛰️ #MPIM director Bjorn Stevens et al. provide an overview of the campaign’s objectives, strategy, & implementation, & offer a glimpse into ongoing analyses: 🔗 https://tellusjournal.org/articles/10.16993/tellus.4123

CC BY 4.0 Stevens et al. 2026

#ClimateScience

MPI für Meteorologie Apr 13

🌏Global climate change influences the presence of lakes in Arctic permafrost landscapes. These so-called thermokarst lakes are a source of methane and influence hydrology & energy exchange. But how can these small, heterogenous features be represented in Earth system models? A new #MPIM study by Constanze Reinken et al. finds that an approach that uses probabilities 🎲 is promising. However, more 🛰️data is urgently needed for calibration.
📖https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/20/1967/2026/
Credit: Ingmar Nitze/AWI Potsdam

MPI für Meteorologie Apr 10

🎉 Yesterday was a special day for our latest graduates Clara Bayley, Jacqueline Behncke, Lucas Casaroli, Abisha Gnanaraj, Zoi Kourkouraidou, Quan Liu, Angel Peinado, Raphael Pistor, Constanze Reinken, and Arim Yoon, as we celebrated their completion of the #IMPRS-ESM program! During a special ceremony, our Director Sarah Kang presented them with their transcript of records. The #MPIM is proud to have supported them & their research and looks forward to their future successes! 🥂👏

MPI für Meteorologie Apr 9

🎉 Announcing a new group leader at #MPIM!

🌦️ As of this month, Wei-Ting Hsiao is leading the new "Weather-Climate Interaction" group in director Sarah Kang's department. The group will explore the crucial link between #weather & #climate. Using the #ICON climate model, the group will investigate this 2-way relationship, with an initial focus on tropical convection, clouds & the Walker Circulation. 🔎

Welcome to Hamburg, Wei-Ting! We’re excited to have you on board! ⛵

MPI für Meteorologie Apr 1

Today we helped bring climate research into the public space 🌍

At the “Forschungsreise 2026” at the Klimahaus in Bremerhaven, #MPIM researchers Julian Krüger and Daniel Krieger engaged with visitors to answer questions, share insights, and discuss key climate challenges.

🗨️ 💬 Events like this show how valuable direct exchange beyond academia really is.

🙌 Thanks #Klimahaus and everyone who stopped by!

#ClimateScience #Wissenschaftskommunikation #Outreach

MPI für Meteorologie Mar 30

🔥 Human-caused climate change fuels mega-fires in the Arctic🔥

New research by #IMPRS-ESM doctoral candidate Lukas Fiedler and #MPIM researchers shows that the extreme fire years of 2019–2021 are due to human-caused climate change.

Using climate simulations, Fiedler et al. demonstrate that human emissions made these extreme fire years significantly more likely – up to 235x more likely in 2021!

📚 https://www.uni-hamburg.de/en/newsroom/presse/2026/pm11.html
📖 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae4d64
Credit: NASA Earth Observatory
#Extremeweather

MPI für Meteorologie Mar 26

We are thrilled to host Prof. Dr. Jhoon Kim from Yonsei University, recipient of the prestigious Humboldt Research Award! 🏆

He’ll be working with #MPIM group leader, Guy Brasseur, and his research group for a year, combining satellite observations with our models to study air quality & climate change. We’re excited to see the insights this research will bring! 🛰️💨

Welcome to Germany and Hamburg, Jhoon! ⚓

#ClimateResearch #InternationalCollaboration

Credits: Humboldt-Stiftung/Matthias Merz

MPI für Meteorologie Mar 23

🌏 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 Mar 19

🌱 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