Sentences with phrase «because orbital changes»

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The researchers» interpretation is that the jet is «serpentine and inhomogeneous» because it emits radiation over a range of frequencies and from different zones, which change their orientation due to the instabilities in the jet, or to orbital motions.

The Arctic took another 3,000 - 4,000 years to warm this much, primarily because of the fact that the Northern Hemisphere had huge ice sheets to buffer warming, and the fact that changes in ocean currents and Earth's orbital configuration accelerated warming in the south.

Such changes are much less pronounced than the seasonal changes on Earth because Jupiter's equator is inclined at only 3.2 ° to its orbital plane whereas Earth's is at 23.5 °.

So here's an attempt: When temperatures change because of an orbital forcing, you've got a strong CO2 feedback because the CO2 in the atmosphere was in equilibrium with the CO2 in the oceans before temperatures changed.

Finding a similar trend in the Southern Hemisphere was somewhat unexpected because the effects of the orbital changes should be opposite there.

That's because orbital speed changes with position within the elliptical orbit.