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Permafrost soil thawing accelerates climate change despite more abundant vegetation
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2013/03/13 - Global warming affects permafrost soils, for instance in Siberia, in two opposing ways. Their thawing accelerates decomposition processes in the ...
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Naturkundemuseum and PIK link history and future
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03/08/2013 - Naturkundemuseum Berlin, Germany´s leading natural history museum, and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research have agreed to work ...
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Weather extremes provoked by trapping of giant waves in the atmosphere
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02/25/2013 - The world has suffered from severe regional weather extremes in recent years, such as the heat wave in the United States in 2011 or the one in ...
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Global warming has increased monthly heat records by a factor of five
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01/14/2013 - Monthly temperature extremes have become much more frequent, as measurements from around the world indicate. On average, there are now five times ...
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Why early Earth was no snowball: Illuminating the ”faint young Sun paradox”
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12/17/2012 - In the early history of planet Earth, the Sun was up to 25 per cent less luminous than today. Yet there is strong evidence that the Earth’s ...
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Projected sea-level rise may be underestimated
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11/28/2012 - The rate of sea-level rise in the past decades is greater than projected by the latest assessments of the IPCC, while global temperature increases ...
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„Clouds, wind and weather“ is green book of the year
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09/26/2012 - For its “lasting impact on ecological awareness in Germany”, PIK-scientist Stefan Rahmstorf´s children´s book “Clouds, wind and weather“ was ...
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The scientific work of Research Domain 1 is concentrated in so-called Flagship Projects. These Flagship Projects are supported by Externally Funded Projects, ...
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Prof. Dr. Reik Donner
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Global Biosphere and Water Modelling
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