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focus 3 - global earth-system dynamics

This focus hosts working groups that address global-scale Earth System changes and their underlying processes, including their response to changes in forcings, internal feedbacks and teleconnections. In particular, working groups “BIPOMAC”, “Global Monsoon” and “Ocean Biogeochemistry” deal with linkages and processes that operate at low-latitudes in a meridional direction, between high latitude regions in a zonal direction, and in the world ocean as a whole.

Driving Questions
- How have different parts of the Earth System interacted to produce climate feedbacks on regional to global scale?
- What are the causes and thresholds of rapid transitions between quasi-stable climatic and environmental states, in particular on timescales that are relevant to society?
- How reversible are these abrupt changes?


Focus Leaders: Pinxian Wang, Mohammed Umer, Peter Kershaw and Zhongli Ding


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