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Regina R. Rodrigues
@rrrocean
| Professor of Physical Oceanography and Climate @ufsc | Co-chair @WCRP_climate LHA My Climate Risk | Love all things nature... @rrrocean.bsky.social
Jan 10 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
In this study by Da Nial, Niklas Boers and colleagues, we investigate the interplay between two tipping elements of the climate system: the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) and the Amazon forest!

This is what we found… 🧵 1/n
nature.com/articles/s4324…
Image A potential collapse of the AMOC mitigates the savanization of the Amazon (right panels), i.e., less rainforest conversion to savanna (red colours), compared to global warming only (left panels). Note that the savanization would be delayed by just ± 10 years (arrow).
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Sep 10, 2020 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
The Pantanal is currently on fire in Brazil and yet this doesn’t make the headlines. I don’t mean to say it is more or less important than current fires on the US west coast or the Australian fires last year, but this might be an consequence of climate change. A thread 1/n From ecoa.org.br The Pantanal is the world's largest tropical wetland area or the world's largest flooded grassland. This is due to its position in relation to the Andes and the South American Low-Level Jet that channels moisture from the Amazon to this region. 2/n Image