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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.

Key findings:

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...

Due to climate change, heatwaves in Europe are not only becoming more frequent and hotter but also increasingly unpredictable. An international team led by climate scientist Dr. Goratz Beobide-Arsuaga from the Earth and Society Research Hub (ESRAH) at the University of Hamburg has now shown that...

What are the consequences of crossing global temperature targets? Would it be feasible to return to those levels in the near future? What are the implications of a temperature "overshoot"? To answer these and other key questions, the first Overshoot Conference took place in Austria, hosted by IIASA...

What could be the positive side effects of necessary mitigation and adaptation measures? Marlene Klockmann and two colleagues from the German Weather Service discussed this with school children in two workshops titled "A world of extremes - how do we turn the climate crisis into opportunities?". The...