Reconstructing the climate of the past is an important tool for scientists to better understand and predict future climate changes that are the result of the present-day global warming. Although there is still little known about the Earth’s tropical and subtropical regions, these regions are thought...

On 27 September 2008, Hamburg´s marine researcher, Prof. Dr. Werner Alpers, receives the "National Friendship Award of the People´s Republic of China" in the "Great Hall of the People" in Tiananmen Square in Beijing.

Scientists from Hamburg´s cluster of excellence for climate research supplied the expert knowledge on Monday evening for the topic "Climate Change Hamburg". This was the motto of the first of a new series of talks initiated by the President of the University of Hamburg, Professor Dr.-Ing. Monika...

Prof. Dr. Hartmut Graßl, former Director at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology and Professor Emeritus of General Meteorology at the University of Hamburg, was awarded the Honorary Doctorate of the West Hungarian University in Sopron on September 9, 2008.

6 Februar 2008: Prof. Dr. Martin Claußen und Prof. Dr. Klaus Fraedrich wurden im Januar als Ordentliche Mitglieder in die Akademie der Wissenschaften in Hamburg gewählt. Die feierliche Aufnahme in die Akademie erfolgt am 8. Februar 2008.

Dependable, ecological and cost-effective - which forms of energy can fill these needs best in the light of climate change? What alternatives exist for handling the waste products of our energy supply? How can the risks for humans and the environment best be minimized?

How saline is the surface of the world ocean and how much moisture is in the soil of the continents? The first satellite mission for remote sensing of soil moisture and ocean salinity will answer these questions.

What climate researchers had already predicted has now been confirmed by satellite data. The sea ice in the Arctic Ocean will decrease to an extreme minimum again in this year.

What are the relationships between climate change, nutrient cycles and climate-relevant gases? The goal of a recent expedition of the research vessel METEOR to the continental shelf off Namibia was to help answer this question. From the 17th of May to the 4th of June scientists from the KlimaCampus...

On Monday the scientific steering committee announced the results of the review process for the so-called flexible funds available to the cluster of excellence. In the coming months 24 additional positions will be created for the successful proposals.