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"Heat waves are on the rise": PIK statement
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24/06/2019 - Germany likely faces a heat wave this week. In which way is this releated to human-caused climate change?
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Summer extremes of 2018 linked to stalled giant waves in jet stream
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29/04/2019 - Record breaking heatwaves and droughts in North America and Western Europe, torrential rainfalls and floods in South-East Europe and Japan - the ...
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German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina presents "clean air" statement
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09/04/2019 - The National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina has published a statement on "Clean Air - Nitrogen Oxides and Respirable Particulate Matter” calling ...
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More CO2 than ever before in 3 million years, shows unprecedented computer simulation
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03/04/2019 - CO2 greenhouse gas amounts in the atmosphere are likely higher today than ever before in the past 3 million years. For the first time, a team of ...
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Marlene Kretschmer wins Köppen-Preis for her outstanding dissertation on polar vortex
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24.01.2019 - Marlene Kretschmer from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), has been awarded the 2018 Wladimir Peter Köppen Prize for her ...
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Planetary Waves drive South America’s Monsoon rains
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12/20/2018 - Monsoon rainfall in South America is to a large extent driven by huge airstreams high up in the atmosphere, a new study finds. Using innovative ...
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Winter weather extremes in the US and Europe: messing with giant airstreams in the stratosphere
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22/11/2018 - Over Thanksgiving, arctic air masses are predicted to bring record-cold temperatures and frigid winds to the Northeast of the United States. ...
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Statement on the current California forest fires
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12.11.2018 - The California forest fires are currently burning across the State having forced hundreds of thousands of residents to flee their homes, among ...
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Extreme weather will likely become more frequent due to stalling of giant waves in the atmosphere
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01/11/2018 - Computer simulations predict a strong increase of events in which the undulations of the jet stream in the atmosphere stop moving along and grow ...
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Hurricane Florence threatening the US coast
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13/09/2018 - Hurricane Florence is threatening the US coast as it will likely hit North or South Carolina. Last year already brought unusually devastating ...
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