Max Planck Institute for Meteorology

Meteorological research institute

53°33′02″N 9°59′36″E / 53.5506°N 9.9933°E / 53.5506; 9.9933

Director

Bjorn Stevens^[1]

Parent organization

Max Planck Society

Staff

approx. 200Websitewww.mpimet.mpg.de

The Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie; MPI-M) is an internationally renowned institute for climate research. Its mission is to understand Earth's changing climate.^[2] Founded in 1975, it is affiliated with the Max Planck Society and the University of Hamburg, and is based in Hamburg's district of Eimsbüttel. Its founding director was the Nobel laureate Klaus Hasselmann. The current managing director is Bjorn Stevens.

Organization and Research

The MPI-M comprises three departments and hosts independent research groups. They also conduct work with national and international partners.^[3]

Departments:^[3]

Climate Physics - investigates how water in the atmosphere, on the land surface, and as exchanged with the ocean, influences Earth’s climate, and its response to perturbations
Climate Dynamics - aims to understand global climate dynamics with a focus on exploring the mechanisms that govern large-scale climate change patterns across various regions
Climate Variability - investigates the role of the ocean in climate variability and climate change on all timescales from hours to millennia

Independent research groups:

CLICCS joint working group
Minerva Fast Track Research Group
Climate Vegetation Dynamics
Environmental Modeling

Cooperative Work:^[3]

the German national weather service
CMIP6
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology Grand Ensemble^[4]

International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS)

The Max Planck Institute for Meteorology and the University of Hamburg jointly run the International Max Planck Research School on Earth System Modelling (IMPRS-ESM) to promote high-quality doctoral research into the Earth's climate system. The school conducts research in four primary research areas: atmosphere, land, ocean, and the human dimension.^[5]

References

^ "Contact".
^ "Our Aim". MPI-M. Retrieved 21 November 2022.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Overview". mpimet.mpg.de. Retrieved 21 November 2022.
^ Maher, Nicola; Milinski, Sebastian; Suarez‐Gutierrez, Laura; Botzet, Michael; Dobrynin, Mikhail; Kornblueh, Luis; Kröger, Jürgen; Takano, Yohei; Ghosh, Rohit; Hedemann, Christopher; Li, Chao; Li, Hongmei; Manzini, Elisa; Notz, Dirk; Putrasahan, Dian; Boysen, Lena; Claussen, Martin; Ilyina, Tatiana; Olonscheck, Dirk; Raddatz, Thomas; Stevens, Bjorn; Marotzke, Jochem (July 2019). "The Max Planck Institute Grand Ensemble: Enabling the Exploration of Climate System Variability". Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 11 (7): 2050–2069. doi:10.1029/2019MS001639. hdl:21.11116/0000-0003-2113-2. Retrieved 21 November 2022.
^ "IMPRS-ESM". www.mpimet.mpg.de. Retrieved 2019-07-03.