Sentences with phrase «ice phase of the cycle»

Not exact matches

When the climate warmed in the late 1800s, it triggered the retreat phase of the tidewater glacier cycle as warm ocean water melted the ice.

; possibly only when the eccentricity is large can the ice age be ended during the necessary phase of the precession cycle.

To me, it would mean that the spin rate of the earth is actually increasing and temporarily reversing its long term trend of slowing, while we are in the polar ice build - up phase of this climate cycle.

We need this low sea ice extent period to build the ice for the next phase of the cycle.

In 1975 Wallace Broeker (the guy who first used the phrase «global warming», predicted a rapid transition to warming in the 1980s, caused by a combination of rapidly rising CO2 emissions and a natural temperature cycle (derived from work on Greenland ice cores at Camp Century) which showed a rapid warming phase up to 1940, followed by the cooling phase which was attenuated by CO2.

It boasts Peter Liss on the links between phytopankton and clouds, Andrew Watson on the circulation of the southern ocean and its importance in ice ages, and Eric Wolff on phase - locking and Milankovitch cycles.

So in the past, as shown from the ice core records, when the interglacial cycle reaches its cooling phase and the atmosphere starts to cool in spite of increasing CO2 levels (proven that changes in CO2 lags temperature change by about 800 years) you are saying that didn't happen?

Cycles of the most recent 20 thousand years have been in and out of phase, compare ice cores from NH and SH.

On longer time scales, sediment cores show that the cycles of glacials and interglacials are part of a deepening phase within a prolonged ice age that began with the glaciation of Antarctica approximately 40 million years ago.

First let's look at how ice ages — the cold phases of glacial cycles — work on Earth.