#antactica — Public Fediverse posts
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Ocean heat and Antarctica:
"The offshore ocean heat supplied to the Antarctic continental shelves by warm eddies has the potential to greatly impact the melting rates of ice shelves and subsequent global sea level rise.... ."Gao, L., Yuan, X., Cai, W. et al. Persistent warm-eddy transport to Antarctic ice shelves driven by enhanced summer westerlies. Nat Commun 15, 671 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-45010-x
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Climate System teleconnection ... climate tipping elements linked with the potential predictability of cascading tipping dynamics. It seems what happens in the Amazon (Deforestation), doesn't stay in the Amazon.
Teng Liu et al, Teleconnections among tipping elements in the Earth system, Nature Climate Change (2023). (OpenAccess) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-022-01558-4
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