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Tipping Points in the Earth System

Descrizione del progetto

Modelli di previsione dei punti di non ritorno del sistema terrestre

La Terra ha attraversato brusche transizioni nel corso della sua storia, ma i meccanismi sottostanti non sono ancora pienamente compresi, né i modelli attuali sono in grado di simulare in modo realistico le transizioni brusche del passato. Il progetto TiPES si concentrerà sull’urgente necessità di esaminare i punti critici in cui i sottosistemi della Terra sono cambiati, migliorare la modellazione delle transizioni improvvise e fornire una stima della stabilità degli stati auspicabili. TiPES contribuirà quindi a prevedere meglio i possibili cambiamenti improvvisi futuri causati dal riscaldamento globale antropogenico, chiarire che cosa significhi attraversare i punti di non ritorno dal punto di vista socioeconomico e aiutare i responsabili politici a pianificare strategie per creare spazi operativi sicuri per l’umanità.

Obiettivo

There is rising concern that several subsystems of the Earth may respond highly nonlinearly at critical future levels of anthropogenic forcing; these levels have recently been associated with tipping points (TPs). It is paramount to identify safe operating spaces for humanity and the planet in terms of these critical forcing levels, in order to prevent harmful transitions to alternative, undesirable states of the Earth system. The mechanisms leading to such abrupt transitions are only partly understood, and further research in this regard is urgently needed. State-of-art Earth System Models appear to respond too smoothly at TPs and have difficulties in simulating abrupt transitions that occurred in the planet’s history. TiPES will address these problems from several angles: 1. The project will identify subsystems that may exhibit abrupt transitions, and couplings between them, by focussing on paleoclimatic records and abrupt transitions therein. Novel methods to detect Early Warning Signals of forthcoming TPs, and to make skilful predictions on their basis, will be developed. 2. The potential shortcomings of models in representing TPs will be evaluated; in particular, TiPES will investigate how Bayesian calibration techniques can help enable these models to simulate past abrupt transitions. 3. TiPES will develop a generalized theory of climate sensitivity that accounts for the presence of TPs and feedbacks across various time scales. 4. To define safe operating spaces. TiPES will focus on dynamical system theory and on global stability notions for non-autonomous systems in order to estimate the stability of desirable states. 5. The results obtained by the project will be communicated to policy makers in a manner that facilitates decisions and their implementation. TiPES will develop formal approaches to define the socioeconomic risks of crossing TPs, and to derive decision strategies to keep anthropogenic forcing below levels where abrupt transitions may occur.

Invito a presentare proposte

H2020-LC-CLA-2018-2019-2020

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Bando secondario

H2020-LC-CLA-2018-2

Meccanismo di finanziamento

RIA - Research and Innovation action

Coordinatore

KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET
Contribution nette de l'UE
€ 1 585 843,75
Indirizzo
NORREGADE 10
1165 Kobenhavn
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Regione
Danmark Hovedstaden Byen København
Tipo di attività
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
Collegamenti
Costo totale
€ 1 585 843,75

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