Links and Videos

Here are a few links to our institute home page, group’s web page etc.

• Group’s web page at the Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry.
• Home page of the Biospheric Theory and Modelling group.
• Home page of Axel Kleidon.
• Web page of the book “Thermodynamic Foundations of the Earth system”.

Videos

There are a few recordings of lectures and presentations on youtube available about thermodynamics and Earth system sciences from our group:

• Kraftwerk Erde: Wie der belebte Planet Energie umwandelt (Faszination Astronomie Online, Januar 2022, in German)

• Erneuerbare Energien – einfach nachgerechnet (moMINTmal, September 2021, in German)

• Working at the limit: Thermodynamics and optimality of the Earth system (Colloquium talk, Center for Complex Systems, Univ. Utrecht, February 2023, in English)

• Understanding the Earth from a thermodynamic systems perspective (Institute Colloquium, IISER Pune, India, October 2019, in English)