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SUBMITTER: Drijfhout S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4629371 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Drijfhout Sybren S Bathiany Sebastian S Beaulieu Claudie C Brovkin Victor V Claussen Martin M Huntingford Chris C Scheffer Marten M Sgubin Giovanni G Swingedouw Didier D
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20151012 43
Abrupt transitions of regional climate in response to the gradual rise in atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations are notoriously difficult to foresee. However, such events could be particularly challenging in view of the capacity required for society and ecosystems to adapt to them. We present, to our knowledge, the first systematic screening of the massive climate model ensemble informing the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, and reveal evidence of 37 forced regional a ...[more]