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Rotes auto fährt auf einer kurvigen Straße umgeben von Bäumen und Wiesen

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19 July 2023|Research

CO2 Prices Are Also Good for Your Health

Was the German eco-tax a flop? Since 1999, gasoline and diesel have been taxed nationwide. The initial plan was to increase the percentage every year. But in 2003, it was locked in at ca. 15 cents per liter, which is still the level today. Research to date has found the eco-tax largely ineffective – but just the opposite is...

Map of the Gulf of Guinea with a blue star showing the point of the earth vibrates not audible for the human ears

Photo: UHH/CEN/C. Hadziioannou

17 July 2023|Forschung

"As if a ten-kilometer-long clarinet were buried in the ground"

Like a very, very low note: Seismologists have been puzzling over vibrations originating beneath the sea in the Gulf of Guinea since the 1960s. The signal can even be picked up all over the world. Dr. Charlotte Bruland and Prof. Céline Hadziioannou have embarked on a study in search of clues. Despite new findings, the...

Zwei Wolkenkratzer im Hintergrund und Bäum im Vordergrund.

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15 June 2023|Research

How Transparency Can Make Companies Greener

What are companies actually doing to reduce their CO2 emissions? It is often unclear. Currently, only 600 German companies are required to publish a sustainability report – including large, publicly traded companies, banks and insurers. In this regard, a non-financial statement is enough – they don’t have to list either...

Figure 8Tidal amplitudes of the semi‐diurnal component M2 on the (a) Northwest European Shelf simulated with high‐res configuration. Isobaths illustrate the shelf break at water depths of 200–500 m

Photo: Mathis et al. 2022

11 May 2023|CEN News

How Boxes and Triangles Can Help Explore the Coastal Ocean

When it comes to research on global climate change, the coastal ocean is hardly considered – even though it can absorb and store CO2. The reason: our limited computing power. As a result, carbon cycling processes can only be represented on a macro scale. But the carbon content of the coastal ocean can vary widely at smaller...

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20 April 2023|CEN News

Satellites help gauge climate sensitivity

How much thermal energy does the Earth emit to space? This is a key climatic factor, which the long-wave feedback parameter can lend insights into. A research team led by doctoral candidate Florian Römer from Universität Hamburg’s Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability (CEN) has now spectrally measured it for...

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27 March 2023|Research

“My work will help depict climate change more precisely”

Since this March, meteorologist Dr. Kaah Menang has been a Humboldt Fellow at the CEN. The research scholarship, awarded by the Humboldt Foundation, supports international postdocs and experienced researchers who plan to conduct research in Germany. In the following interview, Menang explains what he’s working on here and...

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