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physics.ao-ph2026

Planetary climate interactions of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

Ziyan Wang, Teng Liu, Shang Wang +10

The Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP), Earth's "Third Pole", profoundly shapes the Asian monsoon and regional climate and exerts far-reaching influence on the global climate system. Ye…

physics.ao-ph2026

Climate network and complexity based ENSO forecast for 2026

Josef Ludescher, Jun Meng, Jingfang Fan +2

The El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is the dominant driver of interannual global climate variability and can lead to extreme weather events such as droughts or flooding. Recent…

physics.ao-ph2025

Climate network and complexity approach predict neutral ENSO event for 2025

J. Ludescher, J. Meng, J. Fan +2

The El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is the strongest driver of interannual global climate variability and can lead to extreme weather events like droughts and flooding. Additio…

physics.ao-ph2024★ 4 cited

Evaluation of the Real-time El Niño Forecasts by the Climate Network Approach between 2011 and Present

A. Bunde, J. Ludescher, H. J. Schellnhuber

El Niño episodes are part of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), which is the strongest driver of interannual climate variability, and can trigger extreme weather events and d…

physics.geo-ph2023★ 1 cited

Regional Greening as a `Positive' Tipping Phenomenon

Yu Sun, Teng Liu, Shang Wang +9

Earth system tipping elements have been predominantly investigated for their potential to trigger \textit{negative} ecological, climatic, and societal shifts. Yet, an overlooked bu…

physics.ao-ph2023★ 2 cited

Very early warning of a moderate-to-strong El Niño in 2023

J. Ludescher, J. Meng, J. Fan +2

The El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is the strongest driver of year-to-year variations of the global climate and can lead to extreme weather conditions and disasters in various…

physics.ao-ph2022★ 2 cited

Forecasting the El Niño type well before the spring predictability barrier

J. Ludescher, A. Bunde, H. J. Schellnhuber

The El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is the most important driver of interannual global climate variability and can trigger extreme weather events and disasters in various parts…

physics.soc-ph2022★ 7 cited

Teleconnections among Tipping Elements in the Earth System

Teng Liu, Dean Chen, Lan Yang +10

Tipping elements of the Earth system may shift abruptly and irreversibly from one state to another at tipping points, resulting in a growing threat to our society. Yet, it is not f…

physics.ao-ph2021★ 127 cited

Global Daily CO emissions for the year 2020

Zhu Liu, Zhu Deng, Philippe Ciais +25

The diurnal cycle CO emissions from fossil fuel combustion and cement production reflect seasonality, weather conditions, working days, and more recently the impact of the COVI…

physics.soc-ph2020★ 169 cited

Statistical physics approaches to the complex Earth system

Jingfang Fan, Jun Meng, Josef Ludescher +5

Global climate change, extreme climate events, earthquakes and their accompanying natural disasters pose significant risks to humanity. Yet due to the nonlinear feedbacks, strategi…

physics.ao-ph2020★ 9 cited

Network-based Approach and Climate Change Benefits for Forecasting the Amount of Indian Monsoon Rainfall

Jingfang Fan, Jun Meng, Josef Ludescher +5

The Indian summer monsoon rainfall (ISMR) has a decisive influence on India's agricultural output and economy. Extreme deviations from the normal seasonal amount of rainfall can ca…

econ.GN2020★ 825 cited

COVID-19 causes record decline in global CO2 emissions

Zhu Liu, Philippe Ciais, Zhu Deng +37

The considerable cessation of human activities during the COVID-19 pandemic has affected global energy use and CO2 emissions. Here we show the unprecedented decrease in global foss…

physics.ao-ph2019★ 3 cited

Very early warning signal for El Niño in 2020 with a 4 in 5 likelihood

Josef Ludescher, Armin Bunde, Shlomo Havlin +1

The El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is the most important driver of climate variability and can trigger extreme weather events and disasters in various parts of the globe. Rece…

physics.ao-ph2019★ 71 cited

Complexity based approach for El Nino magnitude forecasting before the "spring predictability barrier"

Jun Meng, Jingfang Fan, Josef Ludescher +5

The El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is one of the most prominent interannual climate phenomena. An early and reliable ENSO forecasting remains a crucial goal, due to its seriou…

physics.soc-ph2018★ 63 cited

Climate network percolation reveals the expansion and weakening of the tropical component under global warming

Jingfang Fan, Jun Meng, Yosef Ashkenazy +2

Global climate warming poses a significant challenge to humanity; it is associated with, e.g., rising sea level and declining Arctic sea ice. Increasing extreme events are also con…

physics.ao-ph2013★ 185 cited

Improved El Niño-Forecasting by Cooperativity Detection

Josef Ludescher, Avi Gozolchiani, Mikhail I. Bogachev +3

Although anomalous episodical warming of the eastern equatorial Pacific, dubbed El Niño by Peruvian fishermen, has major (and occasionally devastating) impacts around the globe, ro…

physics.ao-ph2003★ 42 cited

Comment on "Scaling of atmosphere and ocean temperature correlations in observations and climate models"

Armin Bunde, Jan F. Eichner, Shlomo Havlin +3

In a recent letter [K. Fraedrich and R. Blender, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 108501 (2003)], Fraedrich and Blender studied the scaling of atmosphere and ocean temperature. They analyzed t…

physics.ao-ph2002★ 238 cited

Power-law persistence and trends in the atmosphere: A detailed study of long temperature records

Jan F. Eichner, Eva Koscielny-Bunde, Armin Bunde +2

We use several variants of the detrended fluctuation analysis to study the appearance of long-term persistence in temperature records, obtained at 95 stations all over the globe. O…

cond-mat.stat-mech2002★ 126 cited

Global climate models violate scaling of the observed atmospheric variability

R. B. Govindan, Dmitry Vyushin, Armin Bunde +3

We test the scaling performance of seven leading global climate models by using detrended fluctuation analysis. We analyse temperature records of six representative sites around th…

cond-mat.stat-mech1997★ 2 cited

The Exact Ground State of the Frenkel-Kontorova Model with Repeated Parabolic Potential: II. Numerical Treatment

T. Scheidsteger, H. Urbschat, R. B. Griffiths +1

A procedure is described for efficiently finding the ground state energy and configuration for a Frenkel-Kontorova model in a periodic potential, consisting of N parabolic segments…

cond-mat.stat-mech1997★ 4 cited

The Exact Ground State of the Frenkel-Kontorova Model with Repeated Parabolic Potential: I. Basic Results

R. B. Griffiths, H. J. Schellnhuber, H. Urbschat

The problem of finding the exact energies and configurations for the Frenkel-Kontorova model consisting of particles in one dimension connected to their nearest-neighbors by spring…