Climate scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) and Hamburg University’s Cluster of Excellence CliSAP have now shown for the first time that the strength of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation at 26.5 °N can be skillfully predicted for up to four years.

Taking "The Environment is our Future" as its theme, the city of Hamburg and the weekly newspaper DIE ZEIT brought the European Green Capital of 2011 year to a fitting close on 12 December at the Hamburg Rathaus. Anita Engels, Professor of Sociology at Hamburg University and deputy spokesperson of...

The KlimaCampus professors for theoretical meteorology, Valerio Lucarini and Klaus Fraedrich are to initiate a scientific program at the renowned Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge, England.

The interview series "Climate research made in Hamburg" will this month be meeting CliSAP PhD student Sebastian Sonntag. Working at the Institute for Hydrobiology and Fisheries Science of the University of Hamburg, the physicist is developing coupled ocean ecosystem models. Sebastian Sonntag´s work...

South Asia was the focus of the fourth dialog forum on the topic of climate change and security on the 21st of November in the Foreign Ministry. In addition to the impacts of climate change for the Himalayan region, the participants discussed options for international support of initiatives to...

For the third time the Cluster of Excellence CliSAP at the KlimaCampus, University of Hamburg, has given recognition to excellent PhD theses. This year there will be two young recipients of the Wladimir Peter Köppen Award for Climate and Earth System Research.

Is geo-engineering a viable emergency plan for the effects of climate change? What are the possible hazards of these new technologies for the environment and society? And what are the risks for conflicts or even security? Looking at the topic geo-engineering from the viewpoint of peace research,...

Scientific research to experience and participate in: 20,000 visitors spent the evening answering the call of science last Saturday. The KlimaCampus alone welcomed 3,200 visitors to its premises on the Bundesstrasse to enjoy the diverse program.

Today marks the launch of the EU project "Page 21", targeting climate related changes to arctic permafrost and their impact worldwide. Roughly a quarter of the land mass of the Northern Hemisphere is currently still permanently frozen. The permafrost has been a gigantic carbon pool for thousands of...

The CliSAP-integrated Climate Data Center (ICDC) has completed its latest hydrographic data product. The WOHP (World Ocean Hydrographic Profiles) contains quality-controlled historical temperature and salinity profiles of the oceans of the world.