tipping element
nounEtymology Introduced in a 2008 paper.
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Climatology, Natural sciences Large-scale components of the Earth climate system that may pass a tipping point.
- Accordingly, ice is a tipping element that responds abruptly to changes across this tipping point. Trespassing the tipping point for phase transition from ice to liquid water sets all the other tipping elements contained in the Arctic region in motion […]2011, Paul Wassmann, Arctic Tipping Points, Fundacion BBVA, →ISBN, page 17: