Minz, J.; Kleidon, A.; Imberger, M.; Badger, J.: Evaluating the impact of kinetic energy removal by wind turbines on the technical wind energy potential of the German Bight. Meteorologische Zeitschrift (2025)
Lesch, H.; Kleidon, A.: Rettung oder Irrweg? Kernenergie ist keine Lösung: Sie ist zu teuer, zu langsam, zu unflexibel. Physik Journal 24, pp. 3 - 4 (2025)
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)
The BIOMASS satellite was successfully launched into orbit on 29 April 2025. The BIOMASS mission is designed to map and monitor global forests. It will map the structure of different forest types and provide data on above-ground biomass.
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.
Recently, representatives of the Brazilian Ministry of Research and foreign ambassadors visited the German-Brazilian research station ATTO. On site, Research Minister Pontes promised multi-million investments in Amazon research and also in ATTO. This is intended to further expand the infrastructure and strengthen research in Brazil.
For the German-Brazilian joint project ATTO (Amazon Tall Tower Observatory), the Max Planck Society on the German side will continue to ensure the continued operation of the research station in the Brazilian rainforest and research. In addition, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) will fund the project with ATTO+ for another three years with around 5 million euros.