Nonlinear softening as a predictive precursor to climate tipping

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

Volumn 370, Issue 1962, 2012, Pages 1205-1227

  Sieber, Jan ^a   Thompson, J Michael T ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bifurcation prediction; Climate tipping; Time series analysis

Indexed keywords

DECAY (ORGANIC); DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES;

BASIN OF ATTRACTION; CLIMATE TIPPING; DECAY RATE; EARTH'S CLIMATE; GEOLOGICAL TIME; ICE AGE; LINEAR ANALYSIS; LINEAR PRECURSORS; NONLINEAR FEATURES; STABLE STATE;

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS);

EID: 84863393040     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2011.0372     Document Type: Article

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