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climate tipping elements: a standalone construct

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Climate science

large parts of the Earth system, such as ice sheets or monsoons, that could switch to a different state once a threshold is passed.

In climate science, climate tipping elements refers to large parts of the Earth system, such as ice sheets or monsoons, that could switch to a different state once a threshold is passed. This meaning comes from Lenton (2008) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.[1]

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climate3 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs state4 fields · 6 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs switch2 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs

References

Lenton, T. M., Held, H., Kriegler, E., Hall, J. W., Lucht, W., Rahmstorf, S., & Schellnhuber, H. J. (2008). Tipping elements in the Earth's climate system. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105(6), 1786-1793. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0705414105

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