Sentences with phrase «41kyr obliquity cycle»
In a recent paper, paleoclimatic data shows that the tropical monsoon cycle responds very reliably to the ups and downs of Milankovitch insolation forcing on one of the shorter time scales (either 23kyr 65N forcing swings or the 41kyr obliquity cycle, I forget which), but the ice sheets and sea level and global temperature do not respond directly to those insolation forcings.
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And why does the 41kyr obliquity cycle dominate most of the time?