Beatrice Ciancarella joined the group to work on her PhD thesis with the working title "From SST initialization to seasonal-to-decadal predictions: Pacific climate variability in high resolution ICON model". Previously, Beatrice studied Climate Science at the University of Bologna. Welcome to the...

Eduardo Alastrué de Asenjo successfully defended his PhD thesis with the title "AMOC Impacts on Surface Temperatures Across Changing CO2 Concentrations". Congratulations!

We welcome Meredith Avison to our group! Her PhD project has the working title "From demand-relevant to demand-driven: creating usable climate information for improved decision making". Meredith did her master's at the Universität Hamburg in the Integrated Climate System Sciences program. Welcome...

Over the past two decades, the pan-Arctic has experienced rapid climatic change, accompanied by an unprecedented increase in extreme wildfire activity. Lukas Fiedler and colleagues apply a probabilistic extreme event attribution framework to assess the influence of anthropogenic forcings on the...

The Northwest African Coastal Upwelling System, as the one of the major Eastern Boundary Upwelling systems is of primary importance for the regional ecosystem and has crucial relevance for local populations. On this aspect, Adama Sylla and colleagues analysed the near-term predictability of this...

In the outgoing winter semester 2025/26 we celebrated a number of successful PhD and MSc defenses.

Laura Schaffer defended her PhD thesis "Assessment of storm surge risk in the German Bight: Modeling past events and projecting future changes", in collaboration with Federal Maritime and Hydrographic...

In her recent publication, Hongdou Fan et al. show that NAO dominates the subdecadal variability of upper-ocean temperature in the Norwegian Sea in a twofold way, lagged and instantaneous impact. By investigating the associated mechanisms, they argue that this twofold impact holds the key to poor...

A recent study led by CLICCS researcher Armineh Barkhordarian shows that marine and land heatwaves increasingly occur together along European coastlines – and that this combination dramatically amplifies humid-heat stress.

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Charlotte successfully defended her Master's thesis – Congratulations!

The title of her thesis is "Assessing the influence of land-atmosphere coupling on seasonal predictions of summer hot extremes over the Mediterranean". Her analysis reveals that the seasonal forecasting system SEAS5 captures the...