Impact of an AMOC weakening on the stability of the southern Amazon rainforest

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) and the Amazon rainforest are potential tipping elements of the Earth system, i.e., they may respond with abrupt and potentially irreversible state transitions to a gradual change in forcing once a critical forcing threshold is crossed. With pro...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ciemer, Catrin, Winkelmann, Ricarda, Kurths, Jürgen, Boers, Niklas
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 2021
Subjects:
Condensed Matter Physics
Materials Science
general
Atomic
Molecular
Optical and Plasma Physics
Physics
Measurement Science and Instrumentation
Classical and Continuum Physics
550 Geowissenschaften
ddc:550
Greenland
Pik
Ice Sheet
North Atlantic
Online Access:http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/18452/27439
https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-110-18452/27439-3
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjs/s11734-021-00186-x
https://doi.org/10.18452/26749

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