Minz, J.; Kleidon, A.; Mbungu, N. T.: Estimating the technical wind energy potential of Kansas that incorporates the effect of regional wind resource depletion by wind turbines. Wind Energy Science 9 (11), pp. 2147 - 2169 (2024)
Kleidon, A.; Lesch, H.: Zukünftige Energieversorgung in Deutschland: Kann Kernenergie zur Energiewende beitragen? Physik in unserer Zeit 55 (6), pp. 286 - 293 (2024)
Kleidon, A.; Gozzi, C.; Buccianti, A.; Sauro Graziano, R.: Type of probability distribution reflects how close mixing dynamics in river chemistry are to thermodynamic equilibrium. Science of the Total Environment 941, 173409 (2024)
Notholt, J.; Schmithüsen, H.; Buschmann, M.; Kleidon, A.: Infrared radiative effects of increasing CO2 and CH4 on the atmosphere in Antarctica compared to the Arctic. Geophysical Research Letters 51 (2), e2023GL105600 (2024)
Ghausi, S. A.; Tian , Y.; Zehe, E.; Kleidon, A.: Radiative controls by clouds and thermodynamics shape surface temperatures and turbulent fluxes over land. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 120 (29), e2220400120 (2023)
Tian, Y.; Ghausi, S. A.; Zhang, Y.; Zhang, M.; Xie, D.; Cao, Y.; Mei, Y.; Wang, G.; Zhong, D.; Kleidon, A.: Radiation as the dominant cause of high-temperature extremes on the eastern Tibetan Plateau. Environmental Research Letters 18 (7), 074007 (2023)
Kleidon, A.: Windenergiepotenzial von Deutschland: Grenzen und Konsequenzen großräumiger Onshore-Windenergienutzung. Physik in unserer Zeit 54 (3), pp. 142 - 148 (2023)
Kleidon, A.; Messori, G.; Roy, S. B.; Didenkulova, I.; Zeng, N.: Editorial: Global warming is due to an enhanced greenhouse effect, and anthropogenic heat emissions currently play a negligible role at the global scale. Earth System Dynamics 14 (1), pp. 241 - 242 (2023)
Kleidon, A.: Sustaining the terrestrial biosphere in the Anthropocene: A thermodynamic earth system perspective. Ecology, Economy and Society – the INSEE Journal 6 (1), pp. 53 - 80 (2023)
Panwar, A.; Kleidon, A.: Evaluating the response of diurnal variations in surface and air temperature to evaporative conditions across vegetation types in FLUXNET and ERA5. Journal of Climate 35 (19), pp. 2701 - 2728 (2022)
Ghausi, S. A.; Ghosh, S.; Kleidon, A.: Breakdown in precipitation–temperature scaling over India predominantly explained by cloud-driven cooling. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 26 (16), pp. 4431 - 4446 (2022)
Thanks to FLUXCOM-X, the next generation of data driven, AI-based earth system models, scientists can now see the Earth’s metabolism at unprecedented detail – assessed everywhere on land and every hour of the day.
Extreme climate events endanger groundwater quality and stability, when rain water evades natural purification processes in the soil. This was demonstrated in long-term groundwater analyses using new analytical methods.
Extreme precipitation should increase with warmer temperatures. Data from tropical regions show that this correlation is obscured by the cooling effect of clouds. When cloud effects are corrected, the increase in extreme precipitation with rising temperatures becomes apparent.
More frequent strong storms are destroying ever larger areas of the Amazon rainforest. Storm damage was mapped between 1985 and 2020. The total area of affected forests roughly quadrupled in the period studied.
In the annual ranking of the world's most cited and thus most influential scientists, five authors from our institute are once again represented in 2024.
The Global Carbon Project shows that fossil CO2 emissions will continue to rise in 2024. There is no sign of the rapid and substantial decline in emissions that would be needed to limit the impact of climate change
The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina will hold a joint conference on the challenges of achieving carbon neutrality in Berlin on October 29-30, 2024.
Experts from science, journalism, local authorities and non-governmental organizations consider a change of course in communication on climate issues to be urgently needed. The appeal was published on the occasion of the K3 Congress on Climate Communication with around 400 participants in Graz.
A recent study by scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry and the University of Leipzig suggests that increasing droughts in the tropics and changing carbon cycle responses due to climate change are not primarily responsible for the strong tropical response to rising temperatures. Instead, a few particularly strong El Niño events could be the cause.