A team of scientists recently spent two weeks on board the “RV Lance”, a research ship chartered by Universität Hamburg. They were accompanied in their work by the Alfred Wegener Institute’s research plane Polar 5 and numerous helicopter flights. And their efforts paid off: an intelligent...

The CliSAP Cluster of Excellence now offers a mentoring program for postdocs. The core idea: Experienced scientists support young researchers when it comes to career development. Both sides benefit from the collaboration.

From April 27th to May 2nd the City of Vienna hosts the General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union (EGU 2014). Members of the Cluster of Excellence CliSAP and the Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability (CEN) will hold 16 lectures und present 26 posters.

News from Climate Science: Once a month, climate researchers report on their latest findings in the newspaper "Hamburger Abendblatt". Jasmin Link is a mathematical sociologist and focuses on path dependencies.

RV Lance, the research vessel chartered by Universität Hamburg, is now on its way to its Arctic research area off the east coast of Spitsberg. On board, researchers are testing for the first time a computer model for high-definition predictions for ice concentration and ice thickness. The journey is...

News from Climate Science: Once a month, climate researchers report on their latest findings in the newspaper "Hamburger Abendblatt". Nicole Beisiegel describes extreme weather conditions.

Through June, six young students from the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg (HFBK) will share in the day-to-day research work at Universität Hamburg’s Cluster of Excellence for climate research. The goal of this unusual collaboration is to discover and promote new perspectives on both climate...

Professor Hans von Storch, Principal Investigator at the CliSAP Cluster of Excellence, investigates the impacts of climate change on the Baltic Sea. Now, he has been awarded 20,000 Euros for his work.

The cloud expedition “NARVAL North” has provided important information about weather phenomena in North Atlantic low-pressure areas. The review of the collected data is fully under way. The new research aircraft HALO had been based in Iceland for measurement flights for almost three weeks. The Heads...

Max Planck Institute for Meteorology: Climate changes faster in the Arctic than anywhere else on Earth, a phenomenon that is often explained by retreating snow and ice leading to more solar surface warming – the so-called positive ice-albedo-effect. In a new study in Nature Geoscience scientists...