Urban climate researcher Heinke Schlünzen was awarded the Honorary Plaque of The Association of German Engineers (Verein Deutscher Ingenieure, VDI) in recognition of her outstanding research achievements in environmental meteorology and her committed volunteer work. The meteorologist and climate...

The German Research Foundation (DFG) awarded the new Priority Programme “SeaLevel” about €12 million. “SeaLevel” (Regional Sea Level Change and Society) was developed under the overall control of climate researchers in Hamburg. Over the next six years, Professor Detlef Stammer from Universität...

Am 18. März thematisierte das Symposium „Klima – Wandel im Gipfeljahr 2015 – Für ein Zusammenspiel von Wissenschaft, Politik und Gesellschaft“ die Weltklimakonferenz in Paris, auf der im Dezember ein neues UN-Klimaabkommen verabschiedet werden soll. Das Symposium war Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. mult....

Mit rund dreißig Prozent hat China den weltweit größten Anteil am Ausstoß des Treibhausgases Kohlendioxid. Und jedes Jahr erhöht das Land seine Emissionen weiter um mehrere hundert Millionen Tonnen. Ohne eine aktive Rolle Chinas ist eine globale CO2-Minderung also nicht zu erreichen.

News from Climate Science: Once a month, climate researchers report on their latest findings in the newspaper "Hamburger Abendblatt". Dr. Christiane Fröhlich is working at Universität Hamburg’s Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy and is a member of the Cluster of Excellence CliSAP.

Climate predictions for the next season, so called seasonal predictions, are often produced using extended weather forecast models. Scientists from Universität Hamburg around Prof. Johanna Baehr and from Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) and the German Meteorological Service (DWD) present...

Last week, roughly 80 researchers came together at Universität Hamburg to discuss permafrost and the climate. The goal was to arrive at an interim balance on the German-Russian CarboPerm project, funded by Germany’s Federal Ministry of Education and Research.

Mistral: like this wind, this new high performance computer comes from France. The French computer manufacturer Bull is currently installing the first phase of of this new system, which will replace DKRZ's IBM Power6 named Blizzard this summer. Blizzard has been serving climate research since 2009.

Following the end of an Idea Contest, in the weeks to come four innovative projects designed to increase the Cluster’s visibility in Hamburg and around the globe will be rolled out. The four projects will receive a total of 325,000 euros in funding.

Well-informed, balanced and self-confident – the next generation of female academics are expected to fulfill all of these criteria if they want to have successful careers. During Women’s Career Day at the Geomatikum, 60 PhD candidates and postdocs received valuable support to help them do so.