B-Tipping Point
Definition 1
dynamical systems, particularly open systems, a tipping in which an external parameter of the system crosses a specific threshold causing a state transition is called bifurcation induced tipping, or simply B-tipping.
Explanation
The illustration above depicts B-tipping in which a state that had been stable becomes unstable as the system itself changes over time and then abruptly transitions to another state2. Being fundamentally related to bifurcations, systems where an attractor disappears or appears, or where stability is reversed, can undergo deterministic B-tipping when the bifurcation parameter is time-dependent.
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