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   11.06.2018

   Der Hamburg-Tornado vom 7. Juni 2016 – Vorhersage wäre möglich gewesen

   Dr. Peter Hoffmann und Prof. Dr. Felix Ament haben mit ihrem Team am Centrum für Erdsystemforschung und Nachhaltigkeit (CEN) der Universität Hamburg den Hamburg-Tornado von 2016 analysiert. Exemplarisch zeigen sie, dass Vorhersagen mit vergleichsweise wenig Aufwand möglich sind.

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   29.05.2018

   Climate pros “made in Hamburg”: 10 years of SICSS Graduate School

   They hail from India and Russia, Brazil, Iran and Germany, and after finishing their studies they work in e.g. Africa, the Americas or Europe: climate professionals “made in Hamburg.” Over the past decade, more than 200 students have completed their Master’s or PhD in climate research at Universität...

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   15.05.2018

   The North Sea takes up twice as much CO2 along its coasts as previously thought

   We have a powerful ally against climate change: the oceans. The world’s oceans take up a third of the greenhouse gases that humans pump into the atmosphere as a result of industry and traffic, curbing their effect and buffering climate change. But they are paying the price – the oceans are becoming...

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   24.04.2018

   Possible for the first time: reliable three-month forecasts for European winters

   Thanks to a novel method, the quality of seasonal forecasts for the winter in many parts of Europe can now be significantly improved. To date, reliable forecasts could mostly be made for the Tropics. A team led by Dr. Mikhail Dobrynin and Prof. Johanna Baehr from Universität Hamburg’s Center for...

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   11.04.2018

   New insights into mysterious ice clouds

   According to the IPCC, clouds remain one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in Earth’s climate. Now a new measuring instrument promises to unravel these complex formations – from a weather satellite.

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   09.04.2018

   IPCC appoints new authors: scientists from Hamburg assume important functions for sixth IPCC report

   Scientists of Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) and Universität Hamburg will take over the important function of being authors of the sixth report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The IPCC chose seven scientists as Lead Authors, one of whom will have coordinating...

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   19.03.2018

   Thawing permafrost produces more methane than expected

   In a seven-year laboratory study, Dr. Christian Knoblauch from Universität Hamburg’s Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability (CEN) and an international team have shown, for the first time, that significantly more methane is produced by thawing permafrost than previously thought. The...

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   13.03.2018

   The climate-conscious farmer

   In the future, the state plans to obligate farmers to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions – a necessary step, considering that more than ten percent of all man-made emissions are produced by agriculture. Yet measuring those emissions has always been a laborious undertaking, making it difficult to...

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   08.03.2018

   How cities shape the weather

   At the Cluster of Excellence for climate research, Sarah Wiesner has taken a closer look at the city of Hamburg’s climate. Together with colleagues she has now published a comprehensive study on how the city impacts individual weather factors. In an interview, the researcher talks about apparent...

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    07.03.2018

    Enhanced weathering of rocks can help to suck CO₂ out of the air – a little

    Weathering of huge amounts of tiny rocks could be a means to reduce the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. While this is normally a slow natural process during which minerals chemically bind CO₂, technological upscaling could make this relevant for so-called negative emissions to help limit climate...