Meteorological Institute

The OceanRAIN dataset of our colleague Dr. Christian Klepp, for which global ocean water cycle data were measured for seven years, has now been published in Nature's Scientific Data.  Thanks to the rapidly growing dataset of already more than 6.8 million measurements, recorded by 8 ships, a clear picture is now emerging of...

For about two years, the Meteorological Institute has been recording the turbulent wind field in the Hafencity in a  series of measurement campaigns in order to evaluate a novel urban climate model. On Saturday, the institute went on a completely different mission in the Hafencity: we took part in the HSH Nordbank Charity...

Together with Susan Solomon, Manabe last week received the Crafoord Prize at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm. One of his many great achievements is his seminal 1967 paper on radiative convective equilibrium (RCE), together with Richard Wetherald, perhaps the most influential climate research paper of all...