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UP: Fachverband Umweltphysik

UP 12: Climate - Modelling, joint session with jDPG

UP 12.2: Invited Talk

Thursday, March 29, 2012, 11:00–11:30, HFT-FT 131

Potential tipping elements of the climate system — •Anders Levermann — Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany — Physics Institute of Potsdam University, Potsdam, Germany

Some regions and processes within the global climate system respond strongly non-linear to gradual changes in background climate with potentially dramatic impact on human society and nature. The talk discusses a number of these so-called tipping elements with respect to their underlying physical feedbacks: North Atlantic Current, Indian monsoon circulation and West Antarctic Ice Sheet. (Levermann et al. 2012, Climatic Change.)