• Overshooting the critical threshold for the Greenland ice sheet 

      Bochow, Nils; Poltronieri, Anna; Robinson, Alexander; Montoya, Marisa; Rypdal, Martin Wibe; Boers, Niklas (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-10-18)
      Melting of the Greenland ice sheet (GrIS) in response to anthropogenic global warming poses a severe threat in terms of global sea-level rise (SLR)1 . Modelling and palaeoclimate evidence suggest that rapidly increasing temperatures in the Arctic can trigger positive feedback mechanisms for the GrIS, leading to self-sustained melting<sup>2–4</sup> , and the GrIS has been shown to permit several ...
    • The South American monsoon approaches a critical transition in response to deforestation 

      Bochow, Nils; Boers, Niklas (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-10-04)
      The Amazon rainforest is threatened by land-use change and increasing drought and fire frequency. Studies suggest an abrupt dieback of large parts of the rainforest after partial forest loss, but the critical threshold, underlying mechanisms, and possible impacts of forest degradation on the monsoon circulation remain uncertain. Here, we use a nonlinear dynamical model of the moisture transport ...