2024

To manage Earth in the Anthropocene, new tools, new institutions, and new forms of international cooperation will be required. Earth Virtualization Engines is proposed as an international federation of centers of excellence to empower all people to respond to the immense and urgent challenges posed by climate change.

Greenhouse gas emissions have led to substantial warming globally and in Europe. However, the observed warming in Europe is stronger than typically projected in regional climate models. A new study shows that this is due to insufficient consideration of changes in aerosols in the models and implies higher warming than expected for the future.

Christoph Schär, ETH Professor and founder of C2SM, is one of the Swiss climate scientists who have shaped high-​resolution climate modelling. He is now retiring after more than 35 years at ETH Zurich. In this portrait, he explains why he himself never tires of researching climate change.

Obwohl die Geschlechterungleichheit in den Wissenschaften abnimmt, beträgt der Frauenanteil aktuell nur 36%, in gewissen Sektoren sogar weniger (BFS). Anlässlich des internationalen Frauentags kommen deshalb im neuesten MeteoSchweiz-Blog drei Professorinnen des Instituts für Atmosphäre und Klima der ETH Zürich zu Wort und beschreiben, warum sie ihre Karriere gewählt haben und was sie angehenden Wissenschaftlerinnen mit auf den Weg geben möchten.  

The scientific and research community in Germany and Switzerland is setting a milestone in climate and weather research: Since 31 January, 2024, the renowned climate and weather model ICON has been made available to the public under an open source license. This step will open up the scientific basis for weather forecasts and climate projections and make it available to everyone.