News (2024)

20 September 2024|climmodel-news

Regional Climate Variability Plays Key Role in Amplifying Extreme Weather Events

Fraction of attributable/preventable risk of hot extremes to GHG-induced changes in regional temperature variability

Photo: Modified from Barkhordarian A., DOI:10.1088/1748-9326/ad715a

In this study, Armineh Barkhordarian introduces a new metric to examine the extent to which greenhouse gas-induced changes in regional climate variability, in isolation from changes in mean climate, contribute to the frequency of hot extremes and heavy precipitation events. Dividing attribution...

13 September 2024|climmodel-news

Eline Brunet successfully completed her Internship

Photo: private

Eline Brunet successfully completed her internship on the topic "Co-occurring Coastal Terrestrial and Marine Heatwaves in Europe". Congratulations to Eline!

13 September 2024|climmodel-news

Our paper made it on the journal cover!

The cover of Volume 14 Issue 9 of the journal Nature Climate Change features the paper "Arctic erosion reduces ocean CO2 sink". It shows a black-and-white illustration of a coast line with ocea, beach and cliffs.

Photo: Image: Jenni Schurr and David M. Nielsen. Cover design: Debbie Maizels

Our publication "Arctic erosion reduces ocean CO2 sink" by Nielsen et al. made it on the cover of Nature Climate Change, Volume 14 Issue 9, September 2024! Congratulations to all authors!

https://www.nature.com/nclimate/volumes/14/issues/9

9 August 2024|climmodel-news

In years to come, the Arctic Ocean will absorb less CO2 than expected

Photo: David M. Nielsen

We humans benefit from the oceans’ tremendous capacity to absorb greenhouse gases. Due to the low temperature of the water, the Arctic Ocean absorbs an especially large amount of CO2 in relation to its size. Due in part to climate change, this effect will be less pronounced in the future. A new...

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23 July 2024|climmodel-news

New study on simulating abrupt glacial climate transitions

Variability of North Atlantic sea-ice cover

Photo: modified from Malmierca-Vallet et al, AGU, CC BY 4.0

More and more climate models are capable of simulating abrupt climate transitions that resemble warming and coolig events which occurred during the last glacial period (Dansgaard-Oeschger events, 27.8 to 59.4 thousand years ago). Marlene Klockmann contributed a set of simulations with MPI-ESM to the...

22 July 2024|climmodel-news

Eduardo Alastrué de Asenjo presented at EAERE24 in Leuven

Photo: UHH/Eduardo Alastrué de Asenjo

Our group member Edu attended and presented at the 29th Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE) in Leuven, Belgium (July 1st-4th). He got the opportunity to present the results of some interdisciplinary work co-authored with another UHH...

16 July 2024|climmodel-news

Hongdou Fan successfully defended her doctoral thesis

Photo: UHH/Hongdou Fan

Hongdou Fan successfully defended her doctoral thesis "Subdecadal Variability and Predictability of the Subarctic Atlantic Ocean". Congratulations to Dr. Hongdou!

12 July 2024|climmodel-news

„Earth and Society Research Hub” (ESRAH): New think-tank for climate and sustainability research

Photo: UHH/Feuerböther

How the climate, environment and global resources develop doesn’t depend on physical factors alone – how we live, work and do business in the future is equally important. Accordingly, researchers from the University’s Earth system and social sciences disciplines have long-since collaborated...

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8 July 2024|climmodel-news

Lukas Fiedler presented at IMSC in Toulouse

Photo: UHH/Lukas Fiedler

At the end of June, I had the privilege of presenting at the International Meeting on Statistical Climatology (IMSC) in Toulouse. In the Detection and Attribution Session, I gave a talk on "Causal Attribution of Arctic Extreme Fire Weather Events to Anthropogenic Forcings." My presentation focused...

4 July 2024|climmodel-news

Call for Applications for International PhD Program on Earth System Modelling

Photo: MPI-M

The International Max Planck Research School on Earth System Modelling (IMPRS-ESM), located in Hamburg, Germany, offers several PhD positions to outstanding students interested in interdisciplinary climate research.

For more information, check out the flyer(pdf).