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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
卷 122, 期 15, 页码 -出版社
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.158701
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- EU Horizon 2020 project Blue-Action [727852]
- EU Horizon 2020 project CRESCENDO [641816]
- DFG SFB/Transregio Project [TRR 181]
The Earth is well known to be, in the current astronomical configuration, in a regime where two asymptotic states can be realized. The warm state we live in is in competition with the ice-covered snowball state. The bistability exists as a result of the positive ice-albedo feedback. In a previous investigation performed on a intermediate complexity climate model we identified the unstable climate states (melancholia states) separating the coexisting climates, and studied their dynamical and geometrical properties. The melancholia states are ice covered up to the midlatitudes and attract trajectories initialized on the basin boundary. In this Letter, we study how stochastically perturbing the parameter controlling the intensity of the incoming solar radiation impacts the stability of the climate. We detect transitions between the warm and the snowball state and analyze in detail the properties of the noise-induced escapes from the corresponding basins of attraction. We determine the most probable paths for the transitions and find evidence that the melancholia states act as gateways, similarly to saddle points in an energy landscape.
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