tipping element

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English

Etymology

Introduced in a 2008 paper.[1]

Noun

tipping element (plural tipping elements)

  1. (climatology) Large-scale components of the Earth climate system that may pass a tipping point.
    • 2011, Paul Wassmann, Arctic Tipping Points, Fundacion BBVA, →ISBN, page 17:
      Accordingly, ice is a tipping element that responds abruptly to changes across this tipping point. Trespassing the tipping point for phase transition from ice to liquid water sets all the other tipping elements contained in the Arctic region in motion […]

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References

  1. ^ Timothy M. Lenton, Hermann Held, Elmar Kriegler, Jim W. Hall, Wolfgang Lucht, Stefan Rahmstorf, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber (2008 February 7) “Tipping elements in the Earth's climate system”, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, →DOI

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