Early-warning signals for critical transitions

M Scheffer, J Bascompte, WA Brock, V Brovkin… - Nature, 2009 - nature.com
Complex dynamical systems, ranging from ecosystems to financial markets and the climate,
can have tip** points at which a sudden shift to a contrasting dynamical regime may …

Catastrophic shifts in ecosystems

M Scheffer, S Carpenter, JA Foley, C Folke, B Walker - Nature, 2001 - nature.com
All ecosystems are exposed to gradual changes in climate, nutrient loading, habitat
fragmentation or biotic exploitation. Nature is usually assumed to respond to gradual change …

[HTML][HTML] Warning of a forthcoming collapse of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation

P Ditlevsen, S Ditlevsen - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) is a major tip** element in the
climate system and a future collapse would have severe impacts on the climate in the North …

A pervasive millennial-scale cycle in North Atlantic Holocene and glacial climates

G Bond, W Showers, M Cheseby, R Lotti, P Almasi… - science, 1997 - science.org
Evidence from North Atlantic deep sea cores reveals that abrupt shifts punctuated what is
conventionally thought to have been a relatively stable Holocene climate. During each of …

Constraints on future changes in climate and the hydrologic cycle

MR Allen, WJ Ingram - Nature, 2002 - nature.com
What can we say about changes in the hydrologic cycle on 50-year timescales when we
cannot predict rainfall next week? Eventually, perhaps, a great deal: the overall climate …

Advanced spectral methods for climatic time series

M Ghil, MR Allen, MD Dettinger, K Ide… - Reviews of …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
The analysis of univariate or multivariate time series provides crucial information to describe,
understand, and predict climatic variability. The discovery and implementation of a number …

Collapse and rapid resumption of Atlantic meridional circulation linked to deglacial climate changes

JF McManus, R Francois, JM Gherardi, LD Keigwin… - nature, 2004 - nature.com
The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation is widely believed to affect climate. Changes
in ocean circulation have been inferred from records of the deep water chemical …

Holocene climatic instability: A prominent, widespread event 8200 yr ago

RB Alley, PA Mayewski, T Sowers, M Stuiver… - …, 1997 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The most prominent Holocene climatic event in Greenland ice-core proxies, with
approximately half the amplitude of the Younger Dryas, occurred∼ 8000 to 8400 yr ago …

Observations, inferences, and mechanisms of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation: A review

MW Buckley, J Marshall - Reviews of Geophysics, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
This is a review about the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), its mean
structure, temporal variability, controlling mechanisms, and role in the coupled climate …

Ice melt, sea level rise and superstorms: evidence from paleoclimate data, climate modeling, and modern observations that 2 C global warming could be dangerous

J Hansen, M Sato, P Hearty, R Ruedy… - Atmospheric …, 2016 - acp.copernicus.org
We use numerical climate simulations, paleoclimate data, and modern observations to study
the effect of growing ice melt from Antarctica and Greenland. Meltwater tends to stabilize the …