The ORCESTRA started his performance on August 10th in Cap Verde. The PERCUSION gives the beat by flying back and forth across the belt of deep rain over the tropical Atlantic Ocean, while the MAESTRO directs his plane around fields of broken cumuli around Cap Verde to understand how convective storms form and organize. The […]
ORCESTRA: Exploring Tropical Clouds and their Impact on Climate Weiterlesen »
Airborne Campaign Solves Parts of the Riddle of Clouds Cumulus clouds in trade-wind regions cover nearly 20 percent of our planet, producing a cooling effect. Until recently, it was assumed that global warming would reduce the surface covered by these clouds, amplifying the warming. However, a team around Dr. Raphaela Vogel from Universität Hamburg was
Clouds Less Climate-sensitive Than Assumed Weiterlesen »
Joint press release by Leipzig University + Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) + German Aerospace Center (DLR) + Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS) + Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) + Hamburg University + University of Cologne + Max Planck Institute for Chemistry (MPIC) ) + Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich (LMU)
Dramatic warming in the Arctic Weiterlesen »
EUREC4A, the world’s largest measurement campaign to investigate the role of clouds in the climate system, began in early 2020. It took place on and off the Caribbean island of Barbados. More than 40 partner institutions were involved, four research aircraft and four research vessels were deployed, combined with ground measurement stations and satellite remote
EUREC4A Field Study: Do Clouds Amplify Global Warming? Weiterlesen »
From 20 January through 20 February 2020, the EUREC4A (Elucidating the role of clouds-circulation coupling in climate) field study will investigate trade wind clouds in the Tropical Atlantic. EUREC4A is a French-German initiated field study led by Prof Bjorn Stevens, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) and head of the department “The
Hamburger Forscher folgen in der Karibik den Hurrikans, um die Daten für neue Klima- und Wettermodelle zu nutzen Vor uns braut sich ein mächtiger Wirbelsturm zusammen. Die Chance, die Umgebung eines Hurrikans zu erkunden, lassen wir uns nicht entgehen. Ich prüfe ein weiteres Mal die Messgeräte, die Triebwerke unseres Forschungsflugzeugs HALO dröhnen ohne Unterbrechung. Vor
Was die rätselhaften Wolkenberge mit dem Klima zu tun haben Weiterlesen »