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From the Past into the Future: New Climate Simulations for Science and Society
Hamburg, 23.02.2012 Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) and the German Climate Computing Centre (DKRZ) have carried out new climate simulations using MPI-M's new climate model. The results indicate that the two-degree target could be still achieved if carbon dioxide emissions would be reduced significantly. Within an international model intercomparison project researchers were able to simulate the complex carbon cycle as well as vegetation dynamics in climate projections for the 21st century. In case of an increase in CO2 emissions the simulations suggest not only an increase in temperature but also a rapid progression of ocean acidification. Oceanic calcifying organisms will be particularly affected. In addition to long-term projections, more detailed climate predictions spanning the next ten years were performed for the first time. The new climate scenario simulations were carried out on DKRZ's supercomputer and occupied one quarter of total computing capacity over a period of two years.
A wind of change at DKRZ
04.05.2009: At May, 4th, Professor Dr. Thomas Ludwig took up his work as the scientific-technical director at DKRZ. Michael Truchseß was appointed as the new administrative director. A few days earlier the new high performance computing system “blizzard” started his regular computing service.
Inauguration 2009
10.12.2009: The German Federal Minister of Education and Research, Prof. Dr. Annette Schavan, and the First Mayor of Hamburg, Ole von Beust, inaugurated the world's most modern climate computing center in Hamburg with the start of the latest calculations for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The new climate computer “Blizzard” at the German Climate Computing Center (DKRZ) enables increasingly accurate computational projections of future climate change.
