News (2024)

Edu is now back from a two-month research stay in Melbourne, Australia. There, he visited Prof Andrew King at the School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences in The University of Melbourne.

During his time in Melbourne, his research aimed to understand the future long-term effects of delays...

Chiara Nettelnstroth successfully defended her Master's thesis titled "Arctic Sea Ice Freezing Rate as an Early Predictor for European 2-Metre Winter Temperatures". In her research, she explored the connection between the Arctic Freezing Rate - measured as the change in the sea ice edge following...

The annual retreat of the doctoral program IMPRS-ESM (International Max Planck Research School on Earth System Modelling) was held in Fintel this year. During the retreat, Eduardo, Lukas, Tim, Vicky and Sophie presented their work and research goals to the other doctoral researchers and supervisors...

Tatiana Popova successfully defended her Master thesis with the title "Statistical prediction of the stratospheric sudden warming under tropical variability". She investigated the relationship between occurrence of the stratospheric sudden warnings and Madden-Julian Oscillation during the Northern...

End of September, Marlene Klockmann and two colleagues from the German Weather Service contributed with two workshops to the Wetter.Wasser.Waterkant 2024 fall program for public schools in Hamburg. In the workshops, the students learned about climate change and extreme events, and discussed measures...

In their podcast series Mission Klima, the youth reporters from Salon5/correctiv.org spoke with Marlene Klockmann about a potential tipping of the Atlantic circulation, possible consequences, and why it is so difficult to make accurate predictions of whether or not the Atlantic circulation will tip...