News (2025)

15 March 2025|climmodel-news

Welcome to our new PhD candidate Felix Meyer

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We welcome Felix Meyer to our group who will work on his PhD project with the working title "Decadal Climate Predictions with Machine Learning". He previously studied Informatics at the RWTH Aachen. Welcome, Felix!

25 February 2025|climmodel-news

Weaker ocean circulation could cost trillions

Photo: CEN Climate Visualization Laboratory

A major motor for the global climate is beginning to falter: a massive system of ocean currents called the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), which also includes the Gulf Stream. As a new study conducted by experts at the University of Hamburg’s Cluster of Excellence for climate...

Contribution from the university's newsroom

21 February 2025|climmodel-news

Predictions for local storm surge heights recieve media attention

Photo: UHH/Daniel Krieger

Findings from the publication “Machine Learning-Driven Skillful Decadal Predictions of German Bight Storm Surges” (Krieger et al., 2025) have been covered across national and local news. Congratulations, Daniel! An overview of the German news and radio reports can be found here.

17 February 2025|climmodel-news

10-year storm surge forecasts with AI

A woman watching seagulls at a shore, she has her back to us. The sea is churning, waves are rolling onto the beach.

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With the aid of extensive weather data, a climate computational model, and artificial intelligence, Dr. Daniel Krieger from the University of Hamburg’s Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability (CEN) can now predict the average number and intensity of storm surges for coastal cities in the...

Contribution from the news channel CEN News

28 January 2025|climmodel-news

Mohammad Basir Uddin successfully defended his Master Thesis

Map of Europe indicating the output of the machine learning model

Photo: UHH/Mohammad Basir Uddin

We are happy to announce that on January 28, 2025, Mohammad Basir Uddin successfully defended his Master's thesis on the "Impact of Autumn North Atlantic Sea Surface Temperature on European Winter Temperature". For his in-depth analysis, Basir applied a bi-directional neural network with explainable...

15 January 2025|climmodel-news

Impact of ocean data assimilation on the sub-polar North Atlantic in MPI-ESM

Plot showing the 1990-2016 time mean SSH anomaly (color) and the mean ocean surface currents (arrows).

Photo: UHH/Sebastian Brune

What is the added value of doing ocean data assimilation with respect to the simulated dynamics of the North Atlantic ocean? Do we actually need ocean data assimilation at all? In their recently published study, Sebastian Brune and Vimal Koul show that ocean data assimilation improves the...

6 January 2025|climmodel-news

Shivanshi Asthana successfully defended her Master Thesis

Matrix of SAT residuals and Best-N Correlation

Photo: UHH/Shivanshi Asthana

We are delighted to announce that on January 6, 2025, Shivanshi Asthana successfully defended her Master's thesis titled "Constraining Interannual Temperature Variability over the South Asian Summer Monsoon Region Using MPI-ESM Historical Analogues". Shivanshi explored the role of internal...