Climate network percolation reveals the expansion and weakening of the tropical component under global warming.

ABSTRACT: Global climate warming poses a significant challenge to humanity; it is associated with, e.g., rising sea level and declining Arctic sea ice. Increasing extreme events are also considered to be a result of climate warming, and they may have widespread and diverse effects on health, agriculture, economics, and political conflicts. Still, the detection and quantification of climate change, both in observations and climate models, constitute a main focus of the scientific community. Here, we develop an approach based on network and percolation frameworks to study the impacts of climate changes in the past decades using historical models and reanalysis records, and we analyze the expected upcoming impacts using various future global warming scenarios. We find an abrupt transition during the ev

SUBMITTER: Fan J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6310802 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature