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8-9th October (09:45) – OnlineTiPES Workshop: Title: Abrupt climate and ecosystem transitions in paleoclimate.
Organized by Niklas Boers
https://ucph-ku.zoom.us/j/67043636394?pwd=RmJGOHgwL2tmK2x5eDlRMThCdEZ5Zz09
Meeting ID: 670 4363 6394
Passcode: 463637
Several subsystems of the Earth system have been suggested to exhibit the potential to shift abruptly between different stable states. Key examples of such ‘tipping elements’ are the polar ice sheets, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, as well as the tropical rainforests and monsoon systems. The only hard empirical evidence for multistability in these subsystems comes from paleoclimatic proxy records, which encode climate and ecosystem variability in the long-term past, from tens of thousands to millions of years before present. In order to give reliable assessments of the likelihood that abrupt transitions will occur under ongoing global warming in the future, we need to significantly improve our understanding of the mechanism that have lead to abrupt transitions in past.
In this workshop, we aim to bring together experts in paleoclimate proxy reconstruction, dating, time series analysis, and modelling, to share and combine their knowledge about past abrupt transitions in climate and ecosystems.
Invited speakers:
Frank Mayle, University of Reading – Deep time palaeo tipping
Hai Cheng, Xi’an Jiaotong University – Speleothems and monsoon dynamics
Tim Lenton, University of Exeter – modelling of palaeoclimate dynamics
Peter Hopcroft, University of Birmingham – Amazon palaeo–ecosystem dynamics
Full agenda in ERDA/TiPES/meetings/2020_10_PWS_Programme.pdf