A plethora of related geophysical fluid dynamics (GFD) approximations. This tree diagram describes how the various asymptotic expansions, hydrostatic assumptions and vertical averages lead to a ...

11/27/2023 - The intensity and frequency of extreme rainfall increases exponentially with global warming, a new study finds. The analysis by researchers from the Potsdam Institute of Climate Impact ...

I am a Postdoctoral Researcher in the CERES project, Work Package 4, at PIK. My research uses game theory to study international cooperation on climate change and global public goods provision. In ...

Levermann (2026) 'Climate free fall': why the biggest risk to our economies is yet to be recognized Nature Kotz, Lange, Wenz, Levermann (2024) Constraining the pattern and magnitude of projected ...

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Photo: Leonid / stock.adobe.com PIK’s Energy Transition Lab explores Transformation Pathways towards sustainable climate neutral energy supply and demand systems for the World, Europe and Germany.

More than 300 staff members from over 60 countries work at the Potsdam Institute. Researchers make up over two-thirds of the staff as a whole. In addition, around 150 guest scientists from around the ...

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Max is a PhD student in the Earth Resilience Science Unit (ERSU), supervised by Ricarda Winkelmann and Jonathan Donges. He works on developing and quantifying metrics for (World-)Earth system ...

Council adopts key pieces of legislation delivering on 2030 climate targets [25 April 23] Fit for 55 Impact Assessment and accompanying Impact Assessment [14 July 2021] COM proposal with annex [does ...

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Nico Bauer is engaged in the development of modelling tools and scientific publishing. He is responsible for the cross-cut group on Scenario Feasibility of energy, land-use and economic transformation ...