Our Contribution
Artificial intelligence (AI) experts and oceanographers at APL are integrating AI with traditional climate modeling methods to empower scientific researchers with AI insights to better understand tipping points. Tipping points are critical thresholds that, once crossed, could “tip” a natural Earth system into an entirely different state. Studies suggest that these abrupt changes could potentially lead to irreversible, large-scale impacts for the planet. Researchers have been working on ways to predict these climate tipping points to avoid crossing them in the first place. However, the impacts have remained difficult to capture with high resolution, accuracy, and confidence because of the complexity and dynamics of the interconnected Earth systems involved.What Are Tipping Points?