Climate Research

In CLICCS, researchers are working on finding answers to the overarching question: What climate futures are possible, and which of these potential futures are plausible?

The scientific objectives of CLICCS can best be achieved through intertwined research themes equivalent to “research units”:

• Theme A – Sensitivity and Variability in the Climate System
• Theme B – Climate-Related Dynamics of Social Systems
• Theme C – Sustainable Adaption Scenarios
• ABC-X Extremes – Dynamics, Feedbacks, and Impacts

Each theme is structured into multiple projects adressing in a manageable way sub-objectives of each theme. Infrastructure science will be performed through a project High Performance Computing and Data-Intensive Science. A central synthesis project will distill the results on possible and plausible climate futures, from research in CLICCS and elsewhere, into an annual Hamburg Climate Futures Outlook.