Posts for tag "climate tipping point"
Using Buoys to Measure the AMOC: An Ocean Current with Global Climate Consequences
Nicholas Foukal stands on the bridge of a long, pale white boat overlooking the choppy Denmark Strait, the water a greenish-blue hue and dotted with towering icebergs. The deck and boat interior are loaded with research equipment–several...
- Posted January 26, 2026
Anguish of the Amazon: Climate Tipping Points and the Loss of Rainforest Resilience
“Our goal is to quantify the movement towards a tipping point, measured as a loss of resilience in the system. Resilience is essentially how quickly a system recovers from perturbations, in this case droughts for example.”
- Posted June 2, 2022
