Implications of climate variability for the detection of multiple equilibria and for rapid transitions in the atmosphere-vegetation system

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 38, Issue 9-10, 2012, Pages 1775-1790

  Bathiany, S ^a   Claussen, M ^a,b   Fraedrich, K ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bifurcation; Green Sahara; Multistability; Stochastic dynamical system; Tipping point; Vegetation collapse

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DETECTION METHOD; PALEOCLIMATE; POPULATION DECLINE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); STEADY-STATE EQUILIBRIUM; STOCHASTICITY; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

SAHARA;

EID: 84860343968     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-011-1037-x     Document Type: Article

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