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Vulnerability to abrupt climate change in Europe

Year: 2005

Type: book

Abstract: The most recent assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) projected an increase in global average temperature of between 1.4 and 5.8 o C over the period 1990 to 2100, a rate of increase without precedent over at least the last 10,000 years.However, there is mounting evidence that climate, at least regionally, has changed much more rapidly in the past, and there are suspicions that human-induced global warming could trigger rapid and abrupt climate changes in the future.The aim of this project was to explore the implications of rapid or abrupt climate changes -defined here to be either a step change in climate regime or a rate of change outside the IPCC range -for Europe.

Source: ePrints Soton (University of Southampton)

Authors: Nigel W. Arnell, Emma L. Tompkins, W. Neil Adger, Kate Delaney

Language: English

Topic: Climate variability and models

Subfield: Global and Planetary Change

Field: Environmental Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDG: Climate action

Open Access status: green

Funder: Economic and Social Research Council

OpenAlex ID: W163755435