NET4TIP: Network Approaches to Climate Tipping Mechanisms
The new SNSF-COST project NET4TIP has been funded, and will be carried out by Dr. Maura Brunetti in collaboration with Dr. Gregory Giuliani (ISE, UniGe) and Prof. Cristina Masoller (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona).
Climate networks will be used to represent nonlinear interactions in the climate system and to investigate its behavior under a tipping phase. Tipping elements—such as the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation or the Amazon rainforest—can cause abrupt shifts in temperature and precipitation patterns when the carbon cycle is sufficiently perturbed.
Using outputs from climate simulations that exhibit tipping behavior, the network approaches and indicators that can serve as early-warning signals will be identified. Once these signals will be understood in models, real satellite data will be used to see whether any parts of today’s climate are moving dangerously close to a tipping point.
More info on open positions soon!