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Rate-induced tipping cascades arising from interactions between the Greenland Ice Sheet and the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation
Ann Kristin Klose
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Member of the Leibniz Association, P.O. Box 6012 03, 14412 Potsdam, Germany
Institute of Physics and Astronomy, University of Potsdam, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
Jonathan F. Donges
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Member of the Leibniz Association, P.O. Box 6012 03, 14412 Potsdam, Germany
Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Stockholm, 10691, Sweden
Ulrike Feudel
Theoretical Physics/Complex Systems, ICBM, University of Oldenburg, 26129 Oldenburg, Germany
Ricarda Winkelmann
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Member of the Leibniz Association, P.O. Box 6012 03, 14412 Potsdam, Germany
Institute of Physics and Astronomy, University of Potsdam, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
Department Evolutionary Earth Systems Science, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, 07745 Jena, Germany
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- Tipping of thermoacoustic systems with secondary bifurcation in colored noise environments: Effects of rate X. Zhang et al. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0245575
- Cascade tipping, cascade hopping and indirect tipping in ecological systems A. Basak et al. https://doi.org/10.1103/sn5v-xyb5
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Short summary
We qualitatively study the long-term stability of the Greenland Ice Sheet and AMOC as tipping elements in the Earth system, which is largely unknown given their interaction in a positive–negative feedback loop. Depending on the timescales of ice loss and the position of the AMOC’s state relative to its critical threshold, we find distinct dynamic regimes of cascading tipping. These suggest that respecting safe rates of environmental change is necessary to mitigate potential domino effects.
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