Steady now: Unfortunate timing and rate of change may be enough to tip a climate system

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Unpredictable, abrupt changes to the Earth’s system of ocean currents could commence from rate-induced tipping, model study shows. ”The findings point to fundamental limitations in climate predictability,” authors warn. Imagine abrupt shifts of the tropical monsoons, reductions in Northern Hemisphere … Continued

Highlighted by the AGU

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The paper Multivariate estimations of equilibrium climate sensitivity from short transient warming simulations in Geophysical Research Letters, by Robbin Bastiaansen, Hank Dijkstra, and Anna von der Heydt has been highlighted by the AGU editors. In the article, Bastiaansen et al. … Continued

Unmatched dust storms raged over Western Europe during Iceage maximum

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Reinterpretations of European loess indicate Western Europe might well have been the dustiest region on Earth Every late winter and early spring, huge dust storms swirled across the bare and frozen landscapes of Europe during the coldest periods of the … Continued

TiPES EU project of the month

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In the November 2020 issue (#97) of Research*eu TiPES was featured as project of the month. Especially the recent publication by Catrin Ciemer et al 2020 Environ. Res. Lett. 15 094087 on “An early-warning indicator for Amazon droughts exclusively based on tropical Atlantic sea surface … Continued