Earth System Dynamics
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Articles | Volume 10, issue 4
Articles | Volume 10, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-10-631-2019
© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-10-631-2019
© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 10, issue 4
Research article
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18 Oct 2019
Research article |  | 18 Oct 2019

Tipping the ENSO into a permanent El Niño can trigger state transitions in global terrestrial ecosystems

Mateo Duque-Villegas, Juan Fernando Salazar, and Angela Maria Rendón

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Earth's climate can be studied as a system with different components that can be strongly altered by human influence. One possibility is that the El Niño phenomenon becomes more frequent. We investigated the potential impacts of the most frequent El Niño: a permanent one. The most noticeable impacts include variations in global water availability and vegetation productivity, potential dieback of the Amazon rainforest, greening of western North America, and further aridification of Australia.
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