Examples of using Tipping elements in English and their translations into German
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Necessity: tipping elements and global temperature.
One could look at this paper as a"mini-IPCC-report" focusing on tipping elements.
Indicate systems whose status as tipping elements is particularly uncertain.
Info Tipping Elements in the Earth System: How Stable is the Contemporary Environment?
The novel approach is based on the teleconnection between the Eastern Ghats(EG) and North Pakistan(NP)- Tipping Elements of Indian Summer Monsoon.
Info 2008 Tipping elements, sea level rise and costs of climate protection outlined in PoznaÅ.
The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research(PIK) names 16 possible anthropogenic"tipping elements" which might completely upset global climates.
The term'tipping elements' is defined as a strong response to small external perturbation.
During a side event held by the FederalStates of Micronesia Hermann Held gave a short lecture on tipping elements in the Earth's climate system, where global warming through positive feedback mechanisms leads to self-propelling change.
These tipping elements are candidates for surprising society by exhibiting a nearby tipping point," the authors state in the article that is published in PNAS Online Early Edition.
Figure: Map of the most important tipping elements in the Earth System overlain on the Köppen climate classification.
Tipping elements are components of the Earth system that could be pushed into qualitatively different states by small external perturbations, with profound environmental impacts possibly endangering the livelihoods of millions of people. There are indications for significant interlinkages between climate tipping elements and even the potential for tipping cascades or domino effects from the climate to the social sphere.
Hans Joachim Schellnhuber(2009) Tipping Elements in Earth Systems Special Feature: Tipping elements in the Earth System.
We have also identified the tipping elements in the Earth's climate systems with regard to their relevance for climate policy.
There are other potential tipping elements not depicted here; for example, shalow-water coral reefs threatened in part by ocean acidification.
To compare them with the human body, tipping elements could be described as organs which drastically alter or stop their usual function if certain requirements, such as oxygen supply, are not sufficiently fulfilled.
If the circulation weakens too much it can even break down completely-the Atlantic overturning has for long been considered a possible tipping element in the Earth System.
David Archer from the University of Chicago and his co-authors provide evidence that methane hydrates in oceansediments should be regarded as a"slow tipping element" in the Earth's climate system.
The research team headed by Tim Lenton from the University of East Anglia in Norwich, Great Britain, and Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research(PIK)in Germany has introduced the term''tipping element'' to describe large-scale components of the Earth system that may be pushed past critical thresholds by anthropogenic forcing.
But there are many other mechanisms(described below)which make the Earth's large ice masses a tipping element.
A research team led by Richard Washington from the University of Oxford qualifies the biggest dust source on our planet, the Bodélé Depression in Chad,as a potential tipping element.