The European Tipping Points in the Earth System project is a multidisciplinary effort to clarify and explain the dynamics and thresholds of climate change tipping points.
Climate Change
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Looking for Climate Solutions Down in the Dirt
Geoengineering is more than orbiting mirrors and stratospheric aerosols. Innovative modeling considers the impact of no-till farming and radical irrigation.
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Mapping Ice Algal Blooms from Space
Satellite data reveal how colorful algae are melting the Greenland ice sheet.
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If Precipitation Extremes Are Increasing, Why Aren’t Floods?
Improving our understanding of the relationship between changes in precipitation and flooding due to rising temperature is a new grand challenge for the scientific community, argue the authors of a recent commentary.
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Podcast: When the Sahara Was Green
Past climate change likely motivated human migrations.
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Fast-Melting Mountain Glaciers Speed Up Sea Level Rise
Satellites spy on remote alpine glaciers, producing more accurate—and higher—estimates of ice loss over time.
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Progress in Ocean Salinity Science
2018 Ocean Salinity Science Conference; Paris, France, 6–9 November 2018
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Using Multiple Models to Improve Seasonal Forecasting
The first study to examine the ability of a suite of general circulation models to predict sudden warmings in Earth’s stratosphere highlights the potential for improving Northern Hemisphere forecasts.
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Decadal Changes in Glacial Discharge in the High Alps
A new statistical analysis of daily, glacial runoff cycles offers a unique way of examining how Alpine glaciers have responded since the onset of rapid regional warming in the 1980s.
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Very Warm Water Observed Along West Antarctic Ice Shelf
Two years of mooring observations at the edge of the continental shelf show that wind stress and upwelling control the inflow of some of the warmest water observed at an ice shelf front in Antarctica.