Tipping points in open systems: Bifurcation, noise-induced and rate-dependent examples in the climate system

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 370, Issue 1962, 2012, Pages 1166-1184

  Ashwin, Peter ^a   Wieczorek, Sebastian ^a   Vitolo, Renato ^a   Cox, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bifurcation; Climate system; Rate dependent tipping point

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE SYSTEM; GLOBAL ENERGY; QUASI-STATIC; RAPID CHANGES; RATE-DEPENDENT TIPPING POINT; TIPPING POINT;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84857296979     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2011.0306     Document Type: Article

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