Long-range climate connections and interactions among Earth-system tipping elements, linking Arctic connectivity, tipping-element teleconnections, and cascading global climate risks.
Key regions and processes in the Earth system are connected through atmospheric, oceanic, and land-surface feedbacks. An anomaly in one region can influence weather and climate in another; interactions among tipping elements may further amplify global risks.
This theme focuses on connectivity itself: Which regions are linked? How stable or changing are those links? Could interactions among tipping elements lead to cascading impacts? These studies view the Earth system as a network of interacting components, focusing not only on whether an individual tipping element crosses a threshold, but also on how coupling, propagation, and risk amplification may emerge.
Arctic weather variability and connectivity
Uses multivariate climate-network analysis to study Arctic weather variability and its links to global weather instability.
Teleconnections among tipping elements in the Earth system
Proposes a climate-network framework to quantify the global impacts of tipping elements and identifies a robust negative teleconnection between the Amazon Rainforest Area and the Tibetan Plateau.
