Once a month, climate researchers report on their latest findings in the newspaper Hamburger Abendblatt. In the following, Professor Michael Funke explains, why waiting concerning climate protection can be economical rational indeed.

As a result of climate change, the level of cyanobacteria, which are also called blue-green algae, in the Baltic Sea might double, as researchers at the University of Hamburg’s KlimaCampus have calculated. “Our findings show that rising water temperatures will produce not only a longer annual growth...

Last Wednesday, 14 young academics at the KlimaCampus had good reason to celebrate: Following the successful completion of their PhD studies, they now received their final certificates from the SICSS Graduate School. The SICSS training program is intended to promote a new generation of climate...

Since the end of January, Katja Grannis has been responsible for coordinating the Master’s degree program in Integrated Climate System Sciences at the Graduate School SICSS. The 33-year-old, born and raised in Hamburg, had previously studied English Literature, German Literature, and History at the...

On Thursday, Dr. Elias Zubler received the Wladimir Peter Köppen Prize for his outstanding dissertation. The University of Hamburg’s Cluster of Excellence CliSAP’s prize is awarded annually to pioneering young researchers. Zubler’s research investigates the effect of aerosols on central Europe’s...

Once a month, climate researchers report on their latest findings in the newspaper Hamburger Abendblatt. In the following, Michael Link researchs conflicts, that come into being because of climate change – for instance by water shortage.

What would the Earth look like if we could see beneath its surface? Researchers from the University of Hamburg/ KlimaCampus are now able to present a very accurate picture of the Earth´s crust beneath its thin surface layer. The new map depicts the characteristics of bedrock 100 times more...

The “Thermohaline Overturning: At Risk?” project (THOR) has presented its results at UN conference in Doha: The Atlantic circulation is not going to collapse within the next ten years.

Junior researcher Elias Markus Zubler has successfully managed to embed the influence of aerosol particles – suspended particles in the atmosphere – on temperature, precipitation and clouds into a regional climate model. Therewith, he has developed an important basic tool to improve future climate...

During the first YESS (Young Earth System Scientists) Retreat from 7-9 November, a group of YESS members from Potsdam, Berlin, Paris and from CliSAP in Hamburg met and discussed in a pleasant and stimulating environment just 15 km south of Hamburg.The group of 18 YESS members made use of this...