In this month´s issue of the interview series "Climate Research Made in Hamburg", we introduce Heinke Schlünzen. Since 1990, she and her working group have analyzed microscale atmospheric processes at the Meteorological Institute, including urban climate. In CliSAP, the meteorologist is the expert...

While the world´s population is steadily growing, people live in more and more densely populated regions, and are increasingly integrated; this makes them vulnerable to natural hazards, such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, or floods. More than 500 geoscientists will meet from 5-8 March 2012 on...

On February 16, 1962 Hamburg was hit by a storm surge that cost many people their lives. In a workshop held on the fiftieth anniversary of the flood, Dr. Corinna Lüthje from KlimaCampus gave a talk about media-influenced community memory of the storm and the myth arising between heroism and climate...

More than 50 representatives of the most important European ice and weather services as well as climate research institutions met at the KlimaCampus on Friday in order to exchange views about new SMOS data. SMOS (Soil Moisture & Ocean Salinity) is a remote sensing satellite sent into space by the...

Since the attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001, the fear of terrorist attacks is considerable. Thanks to the computer software CT-Analyst, which was jointly developed by the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington and the Meteorological Institute of Hamburg University, Hamburg authorities...

Innovative, clear research and relevant to the climate: The KlimaCampus will for the third year running recognize excellent doctoral dissertations in Climate and Earth Systems Science through the “Wladimir Peter Köppen Award”. Outstanding dissertations with a clear connection to climate research can...

After working at the Universities of Reading (Great Britain), St. Petersburg, Stockholm, Joensuu (Finland) and numerous other universities in America and Europe, Prof. Valerio Lucarini has been conducting his research at the KlimaCampus since October of 2011. Last Friday he gave his official...

Hamburg´s First Mayor Olaf Scholz and Senator for Science Dr Dorothee Stapelfeldt visited the KlimaCampus on Friday to inform themselves on site about the scientific work of the respective institutions.

Around 300 representatives from business, politics and science participated in the annual meeting "City in Climate Change" at the Climate Service Center (CSC) at the beginning of the week. This was double the number at the first meeting in Leipzig, and there was a significant increase in the...

This month´s "Climate research made in Hamburg" interview is with the CliSAP executive director Anke Allner, who holds a doctorate in meteorology and was appointed head of the excellence cluster in September 2010.