TY  - JOUR
A1  - Levermann, Anders
A1  - Bamber, Jonathan L.
A1  - Drijfhout, Sybren
A1  - Ganopolski, Andrey
A1  - Haeberli, Winfried
A1  - Harris, Neil R. P.
A1  - Huss, Matthias
A1  - Krueger, Kirstin
A1  - Lenton, Timothy M.
A1  - Lindsay, Ronald W.
A1  - Notz, Dirk
A1  - Wadhams, Peter
A1  - Weber, Susanne
T1  - Potential climatic transitions with profound impact on Europe Review of the current state of six 'tipping elements of the climate system'
JF  - Climatic change : an interdisciplinary, intern. journal devoted to the description, causes and implications of climatic change
N2  - We discuss potential transitions of six climatic subsystems with large-scale impact on Europe, sometimes denoted as tipping elements. These are the ice sheets on Greenland and West Antarctica, the Atlantic thermohaline circulation, Arctic sea ice, Alpine glaciers and northern hemisphere stratospheric ozone. Each system is represented by co-authors actively publishing in the corresponding field. For each subsystem we summarize the mechanism of a potential transition in a warmer climate along with its impact on Europe and assess the likelihood for such a transition based on published scientific literature. As a summary, the 'tipping' potential for each system is provided as a function of global mean temperature increase which required some subjective interpretation of scientific facts by the authors and should be considered as a snapshot of our current understanding.
Y1  - 2012
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-011-0126-5
SN  - 0165-0009
SN  - 1573-1480
VL  - 110
IS  - 3-4
SP  - 845
EP  - 878
PB  - Springer
CY  - Dordrecht
ER  -