Climate fluctuations refer to the regular and natural changes in weather patterns, temperatures, and atmospheric conditions over a specific region or the entire planet. It describes how the climate can shift or vary over short or long periods, resulting in different weather conditions such as heatwaves, droughts, or cold spells. These fluctuations happen naturally but can also be influenced by human activities and affect various aspects of life, including agriculture, ecosystems, and our daily lives.
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These are questions that climate scientists must ask, especially if they want to understand the cause of
natural climate fluctuations of varying duration.
Despite their importance, however, the extent of past
climate fluctuations in the tropical oceans is still poorly understood.
These swift increases in precipitation and humidity, as reflected by higher levels of iron in the sediment core, were likely caused by
global climate fluctuations.
The real concern lies with increase of both carbon dioxide emissions and temperature that can not be predicted using the models of
past climate fluctuations and patterns.
Some natural
climate fluctuations like the seasonal cycle are simple to account for, since they occur on a well - known, fixed time scale.
Many scientists say the temperature data reflect
random climate fluctuations and an unusually hot year, 1998, picked as a starting point for charting temperatures.
It was found that the ocean significantly affects long
term climate fluctuations, while the seemingly chaotic atmosphere is mainly responsible for the shorter - term, year - to - year changes.
Greenland temperature variations Veizer's paper argues that the local preindustrial
climate fluctuations over the past millennium in Greenland were not driven by CO2.
This was likely the case with polar bear admixture into brown bears, which seems to be linked
with climate fluctuations at the end of the last ice age (Cahill et al. 2018).
D - O events are
rapid climate fluctuations that occur quasi-periodically with a 1,470 - year recurrance time and which, according to Singer, are «likely caused by the sun.»
The IPCC has attributed the pause to natural
climate fluctuations caused by volcanic eruptions, changes in solar intensity, and the movement of heat through the ocean.
Here we show that fluctuations in Antarctic Ice Sheet discharge caused by relatively small changes in subsurface ocean temperature can amplify multi-centennial climate variability regionally and globally, suggesting that a dynamic Antarctic Ice Sheet may have
driven climate fluctuations during the Holocene.
Ancient groups of hunter - gatherers followed these grazing animals from North Africa into Arabia
as climate fluctuations periodically turned deserts into grasslands with lakes and rivers, Petraglia proposes.
One deeply ironic result is that we have now narrowed our own options at a time
when climate fluctuation appears to be increasing.
In fact, arguably, the emergence of sentient hominids may largely be a result of the stresses of
climate fluctuations following the last interglacial which ended about 114,000 years ago.
Large climate fluctuations on time - scales of decades to centuries have long been known to occur during ice - ages, presumably due to sudden surges or collapses of the massive ice sheets.
US CLIVAR is identifying the small - scale, fast processes that underlie extremes and how they interact with the larger - scale, slower, and potentially predictable
climate fluctuations linked to the ocean.
You proposed to explain various phenomena,
including climate fluctuations that others have attributed to greenhouse gases, in terms of a supposedly molten mantle forming a fluid.
In the current context of global warming it is important to assess the impacts that changes in ocean and climate may have on Antarctica, and reconstructing past
climate fluctuations provides vital information on the responses and possible feedback mechanisms within the climate system.
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