ESM protocols, simulations and data | Tipping points and their driving processes | Robustness and (ir)reversibility of tipping points | Risk fo tipping point cascades and role of extremes

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Dr Robin Smith is an Associate Professor for the National Centre for Atmospheric Science at the University of Reading, UK. He is part of the core team of scientists and developers working with UKESM, the next-generation UK Earth System model where he leads work related to the interactive ice sheets in UKESM and their interactions and feedbacks with the climate system on all timescales.

In TipESM he is investigating the role of the ice sheets in Earth System Tipping Points, especially that of the Antarctic ice sheet. What are the climate thresholds that may force major changes in the ice sheet, do ice sheet changes feed into downstream tipping processes in the wider Earth System, and to what extent are any of those changes reversible once triggered?