Centerfor Earth System Research and Sustainability (CEN)

On 20 January 2020, the almost six-week field study EUREC4A (Elucidating the role of clouds-circulation coupling in climate) will start. It aims at validating theories on the role of clouds and convection for climate change through extensive measurements in the atmosphere and ocean.  In addition, EUREC4A will study how...

How will temperatures change if we human beings continue to emit greenhouse gases? That’s likely the most central question in climate research. In the scientific community we use computational models to find out what happens when the CO2 content in the atmosphere rises. These models have to be capable of depicting how the...

When individual countries clear less of their rainforests, they receive a financial reward from the United Nations (UN). In this regard, it is up to each country to prove how much of its local rainforests was preserved. But the costs involved in delivering the proof can be higher than the prospective bonus payments, as...