Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie

We are interested in the processes that establish Earth’s climate and that cause it to change. Our interests gain impetus from the fact that human activity is amplifying the atmosphere’s greenhouse effect, making it imperative to know how this change will affect Earth’s climate.
We are interested in understanding how atmospheric water conditions Earth’s climate, and climate change. This leads us to think in a process sort of way, and also be interested in observations, which are well adapted to quantifying processes, like the life-cycle of storms, or the interaction of waves in the atmosphere with systems of winds.