Early Warning from Space for a Few Key Tipping Points in Physical, Biological, and Social-Ecological Systems

The authors explore latest results concerning a few key tipping elements of the Earth system in the ocean, cryosphere, and land realms, namely the Atlantic overturning circulation and the subpolar gyre system, the marine ecosystems, the permafrost, the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, and in terr...

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Published in:Surveys in Geophysics
Main Authors: Swingedouw, Didier, Speranza, Chinwe Ifejika, Bartsch, Annett, Durand, Gael, Jamet, Cedric, Beaugrand, Gregory, Conversi, Alessandra
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: 2020
Subjects:
Ice
Online Access:https://zenodo.org/record/4063706
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10712-020-09604-6
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Summary:The authors explore latest results concerning a few key tipping elements of the Earth system in the ocean, cryosphere, and land realms, namely the Atlantic overturning circulation and the subpolar gyre system, the marine ecosystems, the permafrost, the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, and in terrestrial resource use systems.