Extreme Event Attribution
Quantitative analysis of how human-caused climate change altered the probability or intensity of a particular weather or climate extreme.
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Permafrost Carbon Feedback
The climate interaction in which thaw exposes frozen organic matter to decomposition and releases additional greenhouse gases.
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Ocean Acidification
The long-term shift in seawater carbonate chemistry caused primarily by ocean uptake of anthropogenic carbon dioxide.
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Atmospheric Rivers
Long, narrow corridors of concentrated horizontal water-vapour transport that deliver major precipitation to continental margins.
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Glacier Dynamics
The deformation, sliding and mass exchange that govern how land ice flows from accumulation zones toward its margins.
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Wildfire Dynamics
The coupled combustion, atmosphere, fuel and terrain processes that govern how landscape fires ignite and spread.
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The Global Carbon Cycle
The movement of carbon among the atmosphere, oceans, living organisms, soils, rocks and Earth's interior.
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Ecosystem Biodiversity
Variation within species, among species and across ecosystems, together with the interactions that sustain ecological function.
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Climate Feedback Loops
Processes that amplify or reduce an initial change in Earth's climate system.
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Plate Tectonics
The framework that explains the motion of Earth's lithospheric plates and the concentration of geological activity at their boundaries.
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